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

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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The Effects of Volume on FTP Training

Getting even close to a hundred percent is very yeah yeah I mean I've only seen one instance where threshold is at a hundred percent VO2 max and that's in people with heart failure was in an end coil paper. There's a lot of other papers that show things like fiber type and capillary density and stuff like that will raise FTP relative to VO2 max. So going out and just doing the same FTP efforts it's not going to be the driver of FTP it's not like an intensity based stimulus but more of a duration based stimulus especially once you get more well trained.

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