Immerse yourself in this FTP-focused session. Allow this 60-minute journey to pull out your strengths and trim away your weaknesses. Stay chilled – after today, your FTP game shall never be the same. This is a great workout for all cyclists to do when short on time and want to improve their Functional Threshold Power (FTP).
Each Sunday, I’ll post a Smart-Trainer Session that you can do in about 60 minutes to enhance your cycling. See a previous post about training intensity (Levels) to know how hard it is to work. If you are working directly with Coach Ray, he will, in most cases, prescribe either a Power Zone or Heart Rate Zone to work within if you are training with these tools.
Recently Cam from Training Tilt released a new feature within his Training Tilt coaching platform. This new feature was an AI tool called Tyler to help plan and prepare workouts. If you are a coach, check out Training Tilt and the capability of Tyler. Within hours of it being released, I had to play with it to generate different workouts. I kept the parameters the same and adjusted one of the input variables. I changed the Tone from Chilled to Professional, to Motivational, to Serious, to Hardcore or Obsessed to create a series of workouts. This workout was generated with the Chilled setting. Once Tyler had generated the workout I checked it over and made some adjustments (Cam is very clear that it is still experimental) to ensure the workout fitted the duration and zones that I wanted and this is the result.
Flourish in the FTP Finesse Reverse
- 10min WU Level II;
- 10min Level III (80%);
- 2x 5min RI Level II, 10min Level III (90%);
- 10min CD Level II;
- 10min Stretching
The Warm Up (WU) should be done at an intensity that is steady but not over-consuming at Level II, riding for ten minutes.
The main set is made up of three, ten-minute reps at Level III. The first rep is at 80% of your Functional Threshold Power (FTP) and the last two reps are at 90%. They are interspaced by five minutes of riding at Level II for your Rest Interval (RI).
Finish off with a final rep of ten minutes riding at Level III prior to the Cool Down (CD)
Conclude the ride with a Cool Down (CD) of ten minutes riding at Level II.
Finish with ten minutes of stretching to assist with the recovery.
Here is my data having done the workout a couple of weeks ago:
If you would like further advice feel free to contact me.
I am the Head Coach & Director of Qwik Kiwi – Endurance Sports Consultant.
I specialise in assisting first-timers and recreational athletes to achieve their sporting goals. I can be contacted at coachray@coachray.nz and 021 348 729.
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