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I'm doing the FTP Builder
Looking through it again, I'm surprised that it doesn't have any intervals at FTP longer than 5 minutes.
Ramp test then 2x20s, over-unders & sweetspot intervals it is then.
NotThamesWater-
Looking at the plan, its a gentle start, and builds up 'SP' or 'TSS' in the final couple of weeks.
Don't think a training plan has to murder you in order to build your FTP.Looking at 'Day 4 Threshold development' which is one of the workouts, its 1 x 12 minutes sweetspot, 10 minutes easy, 17 minutes sweetspot to FTP, easy, 5 minutes FTP, easy 5 minutes FTP. Which should be a pretty tough 1h 18?
Also Day 2 threshold development is 20 minutes at sweetspot in 4m intervals and 25 minutes at FTP in 5m intervals.
First 3 weeks seem pretty easy though.
Acliff
Which plan are you doing?
I found that the 4w ftp booster was quite effective, 8% bump in FTP in 4 weeks. Bumped up the FTP manually part way through
Ramp test at the start and replaced the final 20 minute test with a ramp test.
There’s a zwift ramp test that starts at 100w and goes up by 20w per minute?