“I hated it, I’m never doing another one” Is not uncommon to hear when the three letters F.T.P are mentioned. It has this reputation of being: Brutally hard Unrewarding (unless you have a really good day) Really hard Unproductive as you have to rest beforehand and take time to recover afterwards And did I mention hard? But first… What is FTP? In a nutshell, ride your bike for as hard as you can for
For the eager eyed among you, you may have seen me (Coach Ant) take on the new version of the FTP test that our software is utilising. (Check out the video here) I’ll give you a quick breakdown. The old protocol consisted of warming up, then riding for 20 minutes. The aim of which was to ride the best average power possible for that amount of time. The test was frankly hard,
We’ve all heard the old adage of ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ and that might be true in the case of a dictator but when it comes to training on a bike there is no training metric more reliable than that of power. So that might beg the question: What is power in the context of cycling? To answer this we need a little bit of science! Power is the time derivative
You’ve probably been going through similar emotions to us here in the studio. I want to get out and ride, but the weather just isn’t that appealing. Obviously, when we are being time efficient, riding indoors during the week is perfect to fit around family commitments, work and social life. But when it comes to the weekend, we still want to get out and ride, feel that wind in our faces and experience that feeling
We’ve been long supporters of the FTP. For those new to the term – it stands for Functional Threshold Power (FTP) – in a nutshell, you ride as hard as you can for 20 minutes measuring your power output and heart rate and use the figures generated to structure your subsequent workouts. Right here in the HURTBOX studio, our machines actually use this data (from your FTP) to structure your experience. You come in, ride