Q&A #13 - Bike power indoors vs. outdoors, and are recovery weeks necessary for low-volume athletes

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

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🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Q&A #13 - Bike power indoors vs. outdoors, and are recovery weeks necessary for low-volume athletes If the difference between your FTP indoors and outdoors can be 20-30 watts, do you need to test your FTP separately in these different conditions? What are the factors that impact how big (or small) of a difference you will have? If you're only training 7-8 hours per week, do you really need a recovery week every 3 or 4 weeks? LINKS AND RESOURCES: That Triathlon Show website Coaching Training Plans Dependence of the Nature of the Pedaling Activity on Maximal Aerobic Power in Cycling Gross Efficiency and Cycling Economy Are Higher in the Field as Compared with on an Axiom Stationary Ergometer Fast Talk podcast, ep. 60: Rethinking the science of trainers Adjusting Your Functional Threshold Power for Indoor Riding - article by Hunter Allen SPONSORS: Stac - The Stac Zero is the world's quietest bike trainer. No noise and no tire wear, since it doesn't even touch the tire! It is also very portable and affordable. Even more so when using the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models). ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Now shipping directly from the UK and EU. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW. RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing. CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by
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0:09.6	I'm your host, Michael, and this episode is Q&A number 13.
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0:32.8	First, you have Stack that you can find on Stack0.com.
0:35.9	That's STAC zeros built out.com. They make the world's
0:40.2	quietest indoor bike trainers and indoor bike training is something that we actually will cover
0:45.4	in one of today's questions. We will discuss the difference in the power and FTP training
0:51.7	zones between indoor and outdoor riding.
0:56.0	So look forward to that.
1:00.8	But regardless, indoor bike training is super effective for improving your bike fitness and improving your bike performance.
1:02.2	And that is one of the main reasons that I made it a priority to train more indoors this
1:07.2	year, even though I live in lovely Portugal where weather is good so you can you can bike
1:12.4	outdoors here around which I did more or less last year except for a time when I was injured
1:17.4	but I now think that I'm I'm ready to to get back indoors again and get and I have been
1:24.1	doing that the last few weeks and I have been doing it on my Stack Zero Halcyon
1:27.8	which is Stack's smart trainer model
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