High 5-minute power; Increasing FTP?

daveryanwyoming

Say what??? What point is there in defining any target more accurately than you can make the measurement. I guess you haven't spent a lot of time around test and measurement equipment. Quibbling over 90% vs. 91% or 92% is meaningless if it's not possible to measure your power output to that accuracy. Besides all the fitness adaptations lie on a continuum and you'd be hard pressed to prove the effectiveness of training at 91% of FTP vs. 90% for a given duration assuming the measurement equipment existed to actually fine tune your efforts that closely.

dkrenik

Actually it does. The difference between 90% FTP and 92% FTP isn't discernible via most PM's. Their accuracy falls with +/-1.5% (a 3% range) for PT's with SRM's, generally, at +/-2% (4% range).

Now do you see what Shawndoggy is getting at?

peterpen

I dunno, maybe I'll have to give the SST stuff a shot. But I kinda think I'm nt tough enough for it. And yeah, Tuesday nights are strictly for suffering, not for trying win. I let my sprinter boys try to do that.