FTP Testing and The TrainerRoad Ramp Test: A Comprehensive Guide – Ask a Cycling Coach 158
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
A comprehensive guide to fitness testing, why we created a new test, pro tips for your next fitness test and more in Episode 158 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast Facebook Group
- Lost & Found Gravel Grinder Preview
- Carson City Off-Road Live Podcast Recording!
- Workout Scrubbing Feature Plug
- What is the TrainerRoad Ramp Test?
- Why sustained effort tests may not be the best format for you
- How to find your FTP with a ramp test
- Why the TrainerRoad Ramp Test was created
- How to make cycling fitness tests better
- Should you take an FTP test in the aero position?
- Should you take an FTP test in erg mode?
- Should you take an FTP test on each bike you own?
- What you should know before changing a ramp test format
- Can you do a workout after the TrainerRoad Ramp Test?
- How often should you test your FTP?
- Should steady state athletes take ramp tests too?
- What if you score different FTPs from different tests?
- Pro tips for taking the TrainerRoad Ramp Test
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.9 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.2 | Hi everybody and we are going to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today especially |
| 0:16.3 | About testing or fitness assessments |
| 0:19.3 | Mm-hmm. We're gonna focus on that this week |
| 0:21.6 | We get a lot of questions about |
| 0:23.7 | Fitness testing and a lot of questions that you send in you don't actually realize are related to fitness tests |
| 0:29.1 | But they absolutely are so we've been actually working on a new testing format which we're gonna go into |
| 0:36.6 | In we're gonna go deep into that today. I'm gonna ask it for it. Yeah |
| 0:42.3 | So we're gonna go into deep detail on that and then we have people joining us on the live stream right now |
| 0:47.8 | Which if you just listen to the podcast you can join us for a live stream |
| 0:50.7 | It's usually every Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific and you can join us there and we will be taking some questions from folks |
| 0:58.7 | About testing and everything else and answering those through this week too so |
| 1:03.6 | But before we go any further we do have some some some items to take care of first of all the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast Facebook group |
| 1:10.7 | It's going awesome. Yeah, we'll sort of I'm not winning the |
| 1:15.6 | Actually, you're beating me now am I now yeah, but you voted for yourself again |
| 1:19.9 | You went away from me and voted for yourself and that pushes you one vote ahead of me currently |
| 1:24.0 | Well, that's because of something that happened to you so I pushed my head again |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah, it keeps changing but I like being the underdog actually it's even more motivating. Yeah, yeah |
| 1:31.8 | So you can go on to the Facebook podcast group just look trainer roads |
| 1:35.3 | It's a it's just name that hopefully you can remember although it is lengthy |
| 1:38.6 | The trainer roads ask a cycling coach podcast Facebook group |
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