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The Watts Doc #1: FTP Testing

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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How to Test Your FTP

The gold standard is to just ride at whatever you feel like your FTP is until you fatigue. For some athletes, I give them like 10 minutes, but some other ones I'll given them like 10 or 20. And then I'll say, you know, raise the power gently until you feel like it's a power you can hold for 40 to 70 minutes total. So could you see an eight minute test being example, being, for example, useful for like an ultra distance type person? Well, yeah, I absolutely could.

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