WHY YOUR FTP IS DROPPING | Cycling Coaching Deep Dive | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 511
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:29) Analyzing Mattheu’s FTP Drop
(01:19) The Connection Between FTP and TSS
(03:03) How Consistency Affects FTP
(05:38) Structured vs. Unstructured Workouts
(07:58) Monthly Breakdown of Training
(15:56) Tips to Raise Your FTP
In today's episode, Coach Jonathan dives into the detailed analysis of an athlete's training calendar to understand why their FTP has been decreasing despite continued training. Jonathan analyzes his training stress score (TSS), structured workouts, outdoor rides, rest weeks, and consistency. Jonathan highlights the importance of following structured plans, avoiding workout stacking, respecting fatigue detection, and staying consistent in training. Discover practical insights and recommendations for improving your training and FTP in this informative episode. Drop a comment below if you want your TrainerRoad account analyzed!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Asco Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road today. |
| 0:03.0 | We are going to look into a real athletes calendar and see why their FTP has actually been decreasing, even though they've continued training. |
| 0:09.9 | It's a problem that maybe some of you are solving. |
| 0:11.4 | We're going to dissect everything about their calendar and go through the whole thing. |
| 0:14.3 | And it's just going to be me today. |
| 0:16.1 | Everyone here at the Trainer Road office, me included is absolutely wide open on a lot of work that we have coming out |
| 0:22.1 | here soon stay tuned for that um so it's just me it's going to be a pretty quick one today but |
| 0:27.8 | just the same i want to jump into it so uh i'm going to share my screens and you can kind of see what |
| 0:32.6 | i'm looking at here and we can go through uh matthew's account and go through the whole thing so |
| 0:36.8 | matthew wrote in asking why is my my FTP steadily decreasing from 349 to 331 since September? |
| 0:44.4 | So we're going to get into this, look at it month by month, also just to pick out some things where we can see like some rooms and it's like some possibility for improvement. |
| 0:52.7 | But first things first, here is the career. So this is what it looks like when you sign up for train a road. |
| 0:57.2 | We see your training stress. We see the training plan that you're following. And we also |
| 1:01.1 | see your progression levels. Think of those like video game character abilities, |
| 1:04.4 | but abilities in each power zone. And then we also have a quick view of what your current |
| 1:09.1 | week is in your training plan, but let's just jump |
| 1:11.5 | into the training plan and check things out. So back in September, there was a peak FTP of |
| 1:16.4 | 349 and then that dropped down to 331. And the first thing I want to look at up here is the top |
| 1:21.8 | this training stress chart. So if we look at this training stress chart, we can see that there |
| 1:26.5 | was a lot of training stress here compared to recently. Let's actually look at this training stress chart, we can see that there was a lot of training |
| 1:27.5 | stress here compared to recently. Let's actually look at the numbers. You can see on screen where we see a |
| 1:32.8 | six-week average. So that's a six-week rolling average of how much TSS you've been accumulating |
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