Jay_B

I have both but only recently got my stages PM, first got my cycleops IDT... I would do it the other way round if i could go back and do it over. I find the power data from longer rides out on the road to be more valuable in the long run when looking at strengths and weaknesses and what to address in your training. Just as effective to use a PM on your bike while on a cheaper entry level IDT as it is to use the higher end IDT's. My view anyway...

Here we go in picture format A nice workout to do for FTP is over unders - take for example a 10 minute interval block and break it up so that you do 1min @95% FTP and then 1min @ 105% FTP keep going up and down like that till you done 10 min total, rinse and repeat

Sweet spot / threshold intervals but the important key is to do intervals long enough and enough intervals untill you hit exhaustion in those zones to allow your body to adapt ... Eg. starting out you might do say 5min intervals @ 105% FTP before you hit exhaustion, over time you will progress till you can do 8, 10, 20 min intervals before point of exhaustion at 105% FTP I cant recall the % drop in average power for an interval to be considered exhaustion, will look it up this evening.

Took a while for my mail to come through but I got in

So if you don't get an email does it mean you didn't get in

Agreed its a very interesting number to look at after intervals to see how you progress through the workout. Definitely an important number to have on hand while out riding when it becomes available.

How rested are you before you do them? I find best is to do it after a good few days completely off the bike and away from training. Also dont try do the test with a power number in mind that you want to get to, i started covering up the power reading and just going on feel.

As far as i know its open just about every day of the week. Lots of guys going there on thursday, me included

Right so now Im confused... Did an FTP test tonight running trainerroad on my desktop and cycleops VT in free ride mode on my tablet... All settings the same on both programmes... Results from trainerroad - 2.8 W/kg Results from cycleops - 3.5 W/kg Using a cycleops jetfluid pro so I'm inclined to say that the cycleops reading is correct... From what I understand the guys at TR don't have the exact speed vs power curves and the extrapolate there own formulas Any thoughts or ideas?

So what is considered a decent amount of gain in W/kg over a training block of say 8 weeks... more specifically on the power gain rather than loosing weight... Something like 2-4% increase in FTP considered decent gains?

Sucking your wheel at the jock Scary thing is its only 6 weeks away

Have you been sick lately or were you relatively well rested? I re-tested on monday after fighting bit of flu last week and i popped long before the end.

Was just thinking to myself last week that im finally feeling healthy again after some flu and then over the weekend friends come over to visit and their two snot buckets came with coughing and spluttering all over the place... By Monday afternoon at work my chest was starting to get whoozie... not impressed with those kids at the moment

Jeepers you got some serious steel in your arm

@JarrydB9 Tend to prefer instagram over FB

quite a nice search tool I found - http://www.drugfreesport.org.za/online-medication-check/ I use a combivent inhaler which according to that search is permitted. So then I don't need a TUE?

By my understanding through this definition we have to do it through CSA and as long as the event we are riding in is sanctioned by CSA we are all subject to testing. That's my understanding from what I have read so far... someone to confirm?

I am trying to find out the same thing... I have used an asthma pump since I was a kid and don't want to get into trouble now.

Agreed if you doping with intention and cycling isn't your career and income then you have serious issues... but this is where my previous question about open/seeded testing comes from. How many of us are then not clean and not actually aware of it. When im sick I go to the doctor get antibiotics, for all I know what im taking is illegal but not intentional. Cycling isn't my career and I don't know what all the finer details of the rules are around doping. So if we are all riding in races should we then be expected to know the rules and be clued up if we are not racing for a career and not even in a licenced category?

Im still fairly new to the racing scene and I have always wondered do they/can they test the open seeded groups as well?

That's some good increase If I may ask what sort of training were you doing or programme you using?

Haha... mine as of last night is 210W so that gives me 2.8 W/kg... up from 191W a few months back. Really felt like I had made better gains though. So what is considered a "good FTP" or W/kg for us recreational racers? I use the 2 x 8min test on TrainerRoad...

Im still relatively new to all the power training but have become completely absorbed by it... I do all power based training on my cycleops training for now and will invest in a power meter for my bike in the near future. So I have now done two FTP tests over the last few months, in between I have been working with Trainer Road programs and after tonights FTP test I was rather disappointed, was expecting my FTP to have increased bit more. So what is your guys FTP and what is considered above average for us serious recreational riders that cant train every day of the week? Also how much should you expect your FTP to increase over a period of specific training around FTP?

Those CWC repair stands were going like hot cakes, saw every second guy walking around with one. One of the guys at CWC said they sold nearly 500 since yesterday... also got some Rocket bibs for R250 to use for the IDT

I think they saw the thread on guys cancelling their DSTV subscriptions... so how many of those guys are now going to renew that subscription