Why is my ramp test so low?

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If your training was reasonably consistent before and you’ve had some sickness, it’s very possible that you weren’t up to full speed when re-testing using the ramp.

If you feel like you can adjust up, great. That’s sort of built into TR, you don’t have to be a slave to your test result if things are too easy/hard (adjust in a work out with the intensity feature).

I wouldn’t worry too much in your position, having done 2x ramp tests in total. Keep training through a few more blocks and see what happens.

If it becomes a pattern but you still prefer the ramp protocol to 20min test, just adjust up a bit each time and go from there.

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Also masters 55+ age and have seen odd results from ramp test when FTP is at high % of vo2max. By odd I mean ramp test will put FTP below 200 but I can do sweet spot work at FTP setting of 230W (roughly 88% multiplier). But more than half of ramp tests gave reasonable results using 75% multiplier.

Switch to a longer test like 20-min or perhaps 8-min. Each FTP tests has its own pluses and minuses. Better to use one that is more likely to give consistent results than play around with % fudge factor.

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