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Ten Minute Tips #23: How Much FTP Training Is Too Much?

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The Benefits of 2x20 Training

2x20 isn't going to help you get better if you just go out into 2x20 all the time probably not but it's certainly enough for you to maintain what you've got. A lot of people who have a 35 45 minute TTE which is how long you can hold your FTP provides a sufficient stimulus. Sometimes especially if you are right off the couch or you haven't done much like whatever other training you get out and you start wacking FTP intervals suddenly you're gonna go oh my god my FTP is increasing that's pretty common until it gets to a certain point when it just won't anymore. The mechanism of FTP improvement is really a combination of FTP training via to max

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