fstrnu wrote:
The most important guidance that you'll find is not to use FTP for prescribing workouts. So if you're only using FTP to gauge improvement in ability to perform a test then it doesn't matter because you can do any test you want. If you're using FTP so that you can plug it into some generic SW/plan/model then you've already lost. You're much better served by learning about load monitoring and then figuring how have YOU can do "more" with the same effort. That's not particularly helpful.
1. Its a bit of hyperbole to say "you've already lost"---as if to imply that someone will not improve following such a methodology.
2. You provide no definition of "load monitoring", or practical advice on how to use it to "do more with the same effort".
So, perhaps you convince the audience NOT to use "FTP" for designing workouts, but then you don't replace it with anything equally practical---just an esoteric declaration of "use load monitoring, instead."
Additionally, while digging around I found your "winter training program" pdf, which specifically prescribes workouts using % of FTP.
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Tom_hampton: Jan 21, 19 13:03