SHOULD YOU IGNORE FTP?? | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 526
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(01:39) New Features in TrainerRoad
(06:38) Listener Question: Is FTP Dead?
(07:52) The Importance of FTP and Other Metrics
(14:48) Durability vs. FTP
(24:20) Understanding Aerobic Fitness and FTP
(25:13) The Importance of Training Systems
(26:45) Addressing FTP Misconceptions
(27:15) In-Depth Analysis of Dave's Training
(30:24) How to Know When Your FTP is Too Low
(40:19) Signs You Aren’t Recovering Enough
(48:15) Final Thoughts and Upcoming Events
In this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast presented by TrainerRoad, Coach Jonathan and Nate dive into the hotly debated topic of whether FTP is still relevant. They analyze training mistakes by looking at a real rider's career and discuss how to optimize your cycling training. The episode also covers the latest TrainerRoad features, the importance of consistency in training, and how to properly use TrainerRoad to get faster. They also answer a listener's question about the focus on FTP versus other metrics. Tune in for valuable insights and practical tips on making the most of your training plan. Have questions or want your training calendar analyzed? Drop a comment below!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast, presented by Trainer Road. Today, we are going to talk about if FTP is in fact dead. |
| 0:05.9 | We're going to go into some training mistakes that you might be making by looking at a real athlete's career, opening up the doors to see what it looks like to use Trainer Road. |
| 0:13.4 | We're going to get to a bunch of that stuff. It's going to be awesome. If you are watching this on YouTube, jump into the comments and if you want us to analyze your training calendar let us know down in the |
| 0:21.3 | comments and share this video with other athletes we're going to look at an athlete that claims to |
| 0:25.8 | be they have a tendency to overdo things if you know somebody like that tag them we probably all |
| 0:31.1 | do uh okay uh first things first let's get into just a couple bit of news items uh swift training plans have launched |
| 0:38.9 | uh Nate you can now train yeah it's cool you can train specifically you can make your goal when you're |
| 0:44.2 | building a training plan you can make your discipline swift and your goal to get faster for Zwift |
| 0:50.5 | or climb faster up to Zwift which is pretty is pretty awesome. And then you can also, |
| 0:54.7 | when you're building a training plan, you can designate a specific day. If you have a hard interval day, |
| 0:59.7 | you can swap that over to always be a Zwift race instead. So if you always do a Zwift race on |
| 1:04.2 | every Friday at like 10 a.m. Pacific might be mentioning that time very specifically for a specific reason. So stay tuned there. |
| 1:12.0 | If you always do a race around that time, maybe every Friday instead of doing an over-under |
| 1:17.3 | workout, whatever it was scheduled, you want to do that Zwift race. You can just make it so |
| 1:21.0 | that it's always a Zwift race. You can also do that just individually. If you have a training |
| 1:26.2 | plan already on your calendar and you decide you want to do a |
| 1:28.3 | Zwift race someday, you can just click that hard interval day, swap it over to a Zwift race. |
| 1:32.1 | And then the plan will adapt, right? |
| 1:33.6 | So you can put that in, you'll still be able to follow a plan and we'll look at those races and |
| 1:36.8 | change your plan. |
| 1:38.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:39.5 | There's also another really cool feature, Nate. |
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