I've been doing quite a lot of indoor riding these days (3days min at ~1hr each time) with mix of Tempo/Foundation/VO2 max etc.
I also got a power meter and a dumb trainer and been banging out the watts. Tho I see a drop in indoor FTP of 10-20w vs outdoors, I'm still continuing.
The thing is - I'm just curious how much indoor cycling is helping my fitness. It is aimed at maintaining it only or is also supposed to increase it?
I've been using Strava and the Chrome extension stravistix to chart my progress and from the attached graph, all the Valleys are my indoor rides and only outdoor rides seems to elevate the lines in the graph.
Not-withstanding of course I set my Strava FTP as my outdoor FTP and it could be that this is making it look like I'm taking it easy indoors.
Thoughts? Clue?
Appreciated.
Note: Indoor TSS ~40-60 (1 hr ride)
Outdoor TSS ~80-200 (3 hr ride)
I also got a power meter and a dumb trainer and been banging out the watts. Tho I see a drop in indoor FTP of 10-20w vs outdoors, I'm still continuing.
The thing is - I'm just curious how much indoor cycling is helping my fitness. It is aimed at maintaining it only or is also supposed to increase it?
I've been using Strava and the Chrome extension stravistix to chart my progress and from the attached graph, all the Valleys are my indoor rides and only outdoor rides seems to elevate the lines in the graph.
Not-withstanding of course I set my Strava FTP as my outdoor FTP and it could be that this is making it look like I'm taking it easy indoors.
Thoughts? Clue?
Appreciated.
Note: Indoor TSS ~40-60 (1 hr ride)
Outdoor TSS ~80-200 (3 hr ride)