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I'm not asking for advice btw, I'm just doing a small bit of research for work. I'd always do an FTP test but a colleague thinks MAP tests are more common.
andyp-
I'd have said ftp tests are more common. You can even have strava calculate it for you from a period of your choosing. But I guess most just smash 20mins and then calculate it.
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FTP % of MAP will properly rises and you become more trainied, but not by much.
Map tests are a good, repeatable, reliable way of testing improvement.
Some will be better at a map than 1h FTP/20 min FTP test. Some won't be able to suffer.
But it's still repeatable.I'd rate MAP tests as a method of tracking improvement.
Though if you want to know what your FTP is, go out and do a 40k TT when rested. That's what it is, everything else is an estimation. -
Sorry - I hadn't put 2+2 together there.
Fwiw - I either do the Coggan test, or use TT race datas.
Smallfurry
skinny
dan
On the fourth day the Lord said unto Adam; read the Coggan book - do not eat the fruit from the powermeter thread on lfgss.