help with watts. Power shortage.

[Brickleberry]

Background: been cycling for a year now road only and since I started I have lost 10kgs. I now weight 87kgs. I have started power based training on a Wattbike pro at virgin active but my power figures are extremely low. On the 3 min test I get a MMP of 287 and over a 40 min ride I can only hold roughly 168 watts average. From what I see people on the hub talking those figures should be taking me backward. My question is, is this really very low for someone who has been riding for a year and also what is the best kind of training to do to increase power output?

 

Thanks

[BicyclePower]

So best is to read up on what ftp is and the how to improve it, everything relates around this. We have partnered up with training peaks and this is what they have put together

 

http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/what-is-threshold-power

 

http://home.trainingpeaks.com/blog/article/three-ways-to-improve-functional-threshold-power

 

trust me these are worth reading