I agree with @dbr that I wouldn’t want the first session to be too hard, I wouldn’t do any more, and certainly would want it to get harder. @hippy I’ve done a few but it’s a fair point, you can’t always trust a ramp test and I will probably do a power test outdoors soon to help calibrate, then redo the ramp halfway through this block. Motivation was low, I hadn’t used this testing format before, I’d had covid, I knew I wasn’t fit etc.. so my result wasn’t my peak
It's not supposed to be. It's supposed to be a snapshot at a period of time. Too many people forget this and their ego can't take it being lower so they leave it or bump it and then training suffers. It's meant to fluctuate up and down.
I agree with @dbr that I wouldn’t want the first session to be too hard, I wouldn’t do any more, and certainly would want it to get harder.
@hippy I’ve done a few but it’s a fair point, you can’t always trust a ramp test and I will probably do a power test outdoors soon to help calibrate, then redo the ramp halfway through this block. Motivation was low, I hadn’t used this testing format before, I’d had covid, I knew I wasn’t fit etc.. so my result wasn’t my peak