[image] Determine Your FTP with Zwift’s New Ramp Test Ramp tests are quick and a lot less suffery than traditional FTP tests. “The test will let you warm up for 5 minutes at whatever level you’d like. It then starts you on an ascending series of 1-minute in…

Coaches that are just scheduling workouts are already out of a job. If a coach isn’t adding something additional on top from a relationship aspect, they probably don’t have many clients at this point. As for the AI/machine learning, there is a lot of hype and not a lot of results yet. Certainly not…

[image] stevemz: As for the AI/machine learning, there is a lot of hype and not a lot of results yet. Certainly not to the point that would replace structured assessments. I’m no expert but it would appear to me that for average folks who are not racing frequently or willing to do fairly freq…

[image] STP: I have no interest in repeated full range power profile testing on the trainer just to feed data into an AI program. TR is hinting at going in the opposite direction, no more testing and using your performance on your workouts to adjust your FTP.

[image] STP: As a side note, in the long run Zwift may end up having an advantage in this space as they are collecting a full range of maximal data for folks who race or do the hard group rides. No more of an advantage than any company that authenticates with Strava’s API and pulls in ride hi…

[image] stevemz: Exactly. You don’t need AI to make a training plan for the average person, and their FTP doesn’t have to be perfectly set. They just need to do the workouts and they will be better off than 95% of the people training out there. You could probably just remove the FTP and the watt…

It’s like personal finance. Make more, spend less, invest the difference. Can’t sell a lot of books or charge high commissions that way unfortunately.

[image] MI-XC: TR is hinting at going in the opposite direction, no more testing and using your performance on your workouts to adjust your FTP. The problem with that approach is that you need maximal efforts to build a full picture of a rider and workouts don’t necessarily give you that, esp…

I am going to do the Z ramp test today. I have a pretty decent idea where my FTP is based on what wattage I am hitting in my workouts. I will share the results here. Anyway, being quite biased to the shortest part of the power curve, I am expecting a ramp test to overestimate my FTP since the anaer…

[image] STP: The problem with that approach is that you need maximal efforts to build a full picture of a rider and workouts don’t necessarily give you that I think you’re bringing in a big assumption about how you can set training levels based on how people currently do set training levels. …

I did the Zwift test in an erg rollers and the results look far from ideal. The main problem came from using Zwift’s powermatch. At a certain moment in the test, when the power went up 20w the resistance of the roller decreased like 50w at first and then overcompensated. This made the test quite …

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