TESTING TIMES – #2 – FTP/LACTATE RAMP – How UNFIT am I..?

After a fasted Lactate Test on Monday, Friday I did an FTP Ramp test to further inform my journey to fitness and find out just how unfit I am!! It’ll help me specify my Sweetspot and Over/Under power for the next 6 weeks of build – and along the way I’ll see if my Lactate 1 and 2 are similar to Mondays test. The session is 1 min intervals in 20W jumps from 100W (same as the ramp on Zwift but programmed on my Garmin – because it works and Zwift is too much of a faff…)

Results from Monday indicate FTP of 230W (that’s the power at LT2 – 4mmol)
Results from ramp test indicate FTP of 245W

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 – INTRO – What’s the session and why
2:10 – Start of test and this week’s training (Mark Beaumont and Markus Stitz)
3:38 – 180W – ~LT1 – 1.9mmol – 130BPM – little lower than Monday indicated
5:00 – more info on. it all rising
5:52 – 260W – ~LT2 – 4.6mmol – 155BPM – bang on Mondays curve
6:38 – BOOM – and I’m out…
6:59 – The RESULTS!!
8:30 – What does the FTP and Lactate readings tell me for Sweetspot and Over/Unders?

LINKS:
Correlation of FTP to LT2 research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29745765/
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