AI FTP Detection, Altitude Training, CHO Periodization and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 392
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
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🎉 AI FTP Detection is now available! More info here: https://trainerroad.cc/3F1rQ8O
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:00) 🎉 AI FTP Detection is now available!
Are fast twitch athletes at a greater risk for over training?
(3:28) How does muscle fiber type influence recovery
(21:31) Is carbohydrate periodisation a good way to increase adaptations?
(33:46) Which is more detrimental: carbohydrate restriction or calorie restriction?
(39:50) Are we wrong about Altitude Training?
Why do some athletes experience poor performance after returning from altitude?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm super proud to announce that AIFTP detection is now available to all train road subscribers. |
| 0:04.6 | Now what this feature does is I'll just click one button and then our AI comes in, looks |
| 0:08.8 | at your entire training history, both indoor and outdoor, with train road or without, and |
| 0:12.9 | compares that against our 150 million ride dataset to figure out what trends and patterns |
| 0:17.3 | are similar to then give you an FTP. |
| 0:19.2 | Now a really cool part of this is that you don't have to do capacitive efforts or an all-out |
| 0:22.8 | effort over to get an FTP. |
| 0:24.2 | Sometimes you might have seen on the internet where they will detect your FTP but you'll |
| 0:26.9 | have to do a 20 minute all-out effort somewhere in your training in order for it to work. |
| 0:30.4 | Because we have such a huge dataset, what we're able to do is you could train only sweet spot, |
| 0:34.6 | only endurance training, you'd have to do anything above threshold and we can actually predict |
| 0:38.8 | with a pretty high accuracy what your FTP will be on that day. |
| 0:42.5 | Now how do we know this works? |
| 0:43.9 | What we did is we validated this data against people's workouts post-changing their FTP. |
| 0:48.7 | So there's a few different ways that could happen. |
| 0:50.7 | One is someone could type in their FTP themselves, they could do the 8 or 20 minute test, they |
| 0:54.1 | could do the ramp test or they could use AIFTP detection. |
| 0:56.6 | So we put AIFTP detection in early access, which is like an open beta about nine months |
| 1:01.7 | ago. |
| 1:02.7 | And since then we have 22,000 people sign up for it. |
| 1:04.7 | And what we did is when they used that feature, we looked at their next workout and saw it, |
| 1:08.6 | did they struggle on it, were they able to achieve it, did they quit early. |
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