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I'm having a mild panic at the moment because my ramp is slightly negative despite an increase in sessions. I'm doing the trainerroad sweet spot base mid volume, and hitting about 550 TSS a week through a mixture of sweet spot (obvs), threshold and over unders + an endurance/tempo ride on a Sunday. I did recently change my FTP as it was wrong in TP, and my mFTP in WKO4 was higher than my tested FTP (which didn't surprise me much).
Could the negative ramping just be a result of the sharp changes in FTP and not being able to backdate it that accurately, or should I be doing more (same sessions at a higher FTP) to prevent a loss of fitness over the winter?
I thought I'd trial trainingpeaks for a couple of weeks and got a snide copy of WKO4 but that graph is just making me anxious now...
I've put a chunk on my mFTP over the summer which explains why my recent trainerroad sessions are perhaps feeling easier than they should. Is mFTP more reliable than a proper FTP test? I don't think I test well, so I wouldn't be surprised if my actual output was higher than what I put out in a rollers FTP test.