After reaching some of my goals recently I am super excited about riding. Now, stuff I thought was far fetched or entirely out of reach seems at least semi-possible. Yeah, confidence is a good thing
May as well be ambitious so here is my goal: 300 watt FTP.
I know from reading the big killing me thread (and it damn near killed me reading all those posts!!!!!) that there is a genetic limit to what people can do. The coach on the big thread said that 250 was the limit for many people and to get to 300 you had to have good genetics.
I guess genetics determine the upper limit for vo2max so it follows that your FTP can only be so high depending on potential genetic vo2max.
I don't know how good my genetics are but I just got a little over 200 watts for a full-blown 60 minute TT (confirmed on the trainer no less). This is maybe 4-5 months into my cycling career.
So what would it take to get to 300 watts?
Does the formula or training mix change?
Should you regularly check/test 5 minute power?
Add vo2max work if/when L4 power stalls?
Do I need more volume and/or higher CTL?
From what I read on these pages, people seem to suggest vo2max work when FTP stalls or appears to plateau. So far for me, no plateau or stalling, just small but steady increases in FT. This on a purely L3/L4/SST training diet of about 9-10 hrs~ week, TSS in the 600-700 vicinity, about 68-70 TSS/hr. I can up the training time per week a few hours, maybe to 14-15 (thanks to work furloughs I have more time, but less money - that's the tradefoff).
I'm no 60 kg ballerina so 300 watts, if I could get there wouldn't make me some sort of champ, but it would be pretty amazing and I bet could do OK in races
May as well be ambitious so here is my goal: 300 watt FTP.
I know from reading the big killing me thread (and it damn near killed me reading all those posts!!!!!) that there is a genetic limit to what people can do. The coach on the big thread said that 250 was the limit for many people and to get to 300 you had to have good genetics.
I guess genetics determine the upper limit for vo2max so it follows that your FTP can only be so high depending on potential genetic vo2max.
I don't know how good my genetics are but I just got a little over 200 watts for a full-blown 60 minute TT (confirmed on the trainer no less). This is maybe 4-5 months into my cycling career.
So what would it take to get to 300 watts?
Does the formula or training mix change?
Should you regularly check/test 5 minute power?
Add vo2max work if/when L4 power stalls?
Do I need more volume and/or higher CTL?
From what I read on these pages, people seem to suggest vo2max work when FTP stalls or appears to plateau. So far for me, no plateau or stalling, just small but steady increases in FT. This on a purely L3/L4/SST training diet of about 9-10 hrs~ week, TSS in the 600-700 vicinity, about 68-70 TSS/hr. I can up the training time per week a few hours, maybe to 14-15 (thanks to work furloughs I have more time, but less money - that's the tradefoff).
I'm no 60 kg ballerina so 300 watts, if I could get there wouldn't make me some sort of champ, but it would be pretty amazing and I bet could do OK in races