The Importance of Zones in Training

Even if you don't feel like doing a 60 minute test, you just want to do 45 for all practical purposes, you can just take that average power as your FTP. And so this is, this is an important point. You're not necessarily looking at this test in a vacuum. Oh no, definitely in the context of all the other efforts and rides and races that they've done before. Exactly. When you prescribe, yes, you want to get as accurate of an FTP as possible, but worrying about a few Watts either direction ultimately doesn't matter because rarely are you ever prescribing someone to nail a very specific wattage in training. That's why zones were created.