A carefully crafted interval session designed to enhance your FTP. Embark on this power cruise and let yourself be guided toward substantial FTP gains. Remember, growth happens outside your comfort zone. 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 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 a 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 Professional 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.
The FTP Surge
- 10min WU Level II;
- 6min Level III;
- 5x 1:30min Level V+, 1min Level II RI;
- 6min Level III;
- 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.
Start with a single interval of six minutes riding at Level III, then go straight into the main set.
Which includes five reps of 90-second duration at Level V+ with only one minute at Level II for your Rest Interval (RI).
This is then followed by a further six-minute riding at Level III.
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 from doing the workout recently:
If you would like further advice feel free to contact me.
I am the Head Coach and 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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