Functional Threshold Power: Does It Really Matter?

Functional Threshold Power: Does It Really Matter? | GCN Does Science

We’ve brought in our favourite Genie-us, Professor Louis Passfield, to find out whether functional threshold power, FTP, is actually relevant in determining your fitness.

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Does your FTP only tell you how strong you are for an hour? Or is it still a useful indicator of your overall fitness? Louis Passfield put Si and Blake from GMBN through their paces to find out what their FTP can tell us about their ability, and whether it’s lacking at all as a training tool.

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