How To Maximise Training Time & The BIG PROBLEM With FTP Test!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- For most of us who aren't professional athletes, training time can be limited between work and home life and continuing to progress when you only have a few hours a week can be a challenge. In today's episode of Torque It Out we are breaking down our top tips for maximising your time on the bike and the big issue with FTP tests.
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Great conversation.. Hopefully it will inspire people who want to improve and be healthy to buy into a coach
Great video. Preech swift days I did an old school 1 hour test on the computrainer and boy that hurted but it was so good.
Sadly no lactate testing near me. But have a v02 test with body scan. I will be doing this season.
Happy training
No zones needed. Move your training from the general to the specific. The only true test is race day.
Just more Jen please
Following your content, but feel that the messaging in this was a little confused, It's not till 11:30 you talk about FTP not being a good way to set training zones, at 4:45 your talking about not knowing zones and doing a ftp test that doesn't know zones, I feel that you'd have to watch the entire video to get what you were talking about, and you might have forgotten the point, and I don't think you really talked about ways to maximise time, rather how people aren't mazimising time (ways people can set zone 2, how to do Vo2 e.t.c)
Meant above a constructive, sorry if it didn't come across like that, good points, just feel it needed a little more structure
Point taken. Thanks for watching!
We're known to go off on a tangent/rant at times 😅
Yeah I felt the same, good points were made here
people make a big mistake with FTP. that is they ignore the TIME. you should be able to ride at FTP for a long time and not have it crush you, because its a threshold and not a limit. Time to exhaustion at FTP is vital to know. you don't need to know lactate levels, because, you can train time at the intensity you can do do, that's performance.
Myth busters. You do accumulate fatigue in zone 2. You can't ride 30 hours a week in zone 2. Lactate does not cause fatigue. There's nothing special about zone 2. If you want to do zone 3 do zone 3. Threshold is not the power you can hold for an hour, it's a metabolic "steady state". Zones are a construct. There are only 2 "real" zones. Above threshold and below threshold.
👍 Way too much emphasis is put on training "zones" on the whole
@@UKBikeFit This is perhaps why I'm a bit lost by this video. If there's too much emphasis on zones, then why is it so important to take a lactate test to get your zones right?
Perhaps this discussion is aimed at a much higher level athlete than I'll ever be, but it seems to me that most time-limited cyclists are likely to be average working stiffs, who just want to improve their fitness to enjoy their cycling.
Wouldn't FTP-based zones be such a large improvement over "just riding" that for most people, it's simplicity would be more useful than the faff and expense of professional lactate testing (which strikes me as more of a marginal gain).
@@Corryvreckan23 There are different zone models. Your Lactate Thresholds give a much clearer and simpler 3-zone model vs a 6 or 7 zone model that a FTP test would produce. FTP tests and 7-zone models are the reason why so many people are confused!
It's got nothing to do with how much an "athlete" you are. If you exercise and train, knowing how your body responds to exercise intensities is important.
Lactate is always changing so unless your cgecking it every ride its not helping you to get a Lactate test when your fresh but your training several days a week
interesting : maybe its time i investigated this training plan lark a little more rather than just riding my bike.
Absolutely! 👍