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I can't say with much authority as I've only started training with power for the first time this year. I added around 60w over the course of 6 months through sheer monotony, I'm afraid. 4 week phases with around 8-10 hours of training a week, half of that a variety of threshold stuff both indoors and out, the rest Z1/2 having fun. Add fixed commuting and strength training (particularly core) to keeps things a little less dull.
I think the only bit of advice I can confidently give is that my focus was as much, if not more so on recovery. It's the only way I can maintain a decent quality of workout during any given week. And keep your FTP to yourself, no-one else wants to hear what it is as I've found out :)
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If you've found that you've reached a plateau then it's time to try some different things. For me, I found that when over/unders stopped giving me gains a shift to Vo2 max stuff saw things moving up again. Also, as others have said, quality recovery is really important.
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What type of training are people doing to add c.40W on FTP? Would be great to get a basic feel for what workouts and how many hours a week... unless it's all secret squirrel classified info of course!
If i could even add 20W over the next 3 or 4 months I'd be chuffed.