
The Watts Doc #1: FTP Testing
Empirical Cycling Podcast
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The Importance of a Ramp Test
A ramp test is not even great at measuring your lactate defined FTP. You need to watch how how your lactate builds through an effort over, like say, eight, 10, 20 minutes in order to see if it raises or not. So that that's the real way to test your, your FTP with lactate. And I think it's not even that, you know, Sky is using it with Chris' room for Vio2 Mac stuff. It's just that they see it done in the scientific literature a lot and therefore must be useful.
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