what increase can I expect in my ftp over winter

imposter2.0

No Trev - I was referring to the costs of my own coaching (I was not coached by RST).

BenderRodriguez

Imposter wrote:

No Trev - I was referring to the costs of my own coaching (I was not coached by RST). Would it be too much to ask you to shut up now?

You suggested that I 'made up' the figure I quoted. I showed you where I got them from, and correctly quoted the prices.

Given that you received a season's "good quality, regular coaching for... less than £500 in coaching fees" perhaps you feel that RST is over-priced, but the price I quoted was not 'guesswork'... :roll:

imposter2.0

Can I suggest you get over yourself and move on?

BenderRodriguez

Imposter wrote:

Can I suggest you get over yourself and move on?

Perhaps I should before, in your haste to pick an argument, you make a tit of yourself once again.

Alex_Simmons/RST

BenderRodriguez wrote:

I didn't. Imposter did....

No, he didn't.

You are one big stream of logical fallacies.

FatTed

Can we talk about increasing FTP over winter please?

BenderRodriguez

Alex_Simmons/RST wrote:

BenderRodriguez wrote:

I didn't. Imposter did....

No, he didn't.

You are one big stream of logical fallacies.

I really hope that you are not prone to such bickering and attempted point scoring with your clients. Perhaps you just don't care whether you come across as being 'professional' in your approach or not? :?

BenderRodriguez

FatTed wrote:

Can we talk about increasing FTP over winter please?

Gladly.

A question for Alex about the following, especially the bit in bold.

Part of the argument against base training is that it does not improve fitness per se – fitness usually being defined in terms of VO2 max, MMP or any of the commonly used thresholds. Endurance is a different characteristic than that measured by lab or field testing – quite simply it is the ability to endure a specific intensity. For example, consider two athletes with a lactate threshold at 200W. The first athlete can complete 2hrs riding constantly at lactate threshold whereas the second can ride for 4hrs at the same intensity – in other words the second athlete has better endurance.

http://www.pbscience.com/index.php/trai ... e-training

Do you think that two riders with the same 'fitness... as defined in terms of VO2 max, MMP or any of the commonly used thresholds' could have such a difference in their long-term endurance, or is it the case that long-term endurance can actually be predicted from, for example, FTP, so that two riders with a similar FTP would be likely to have similar long-term endurance as well? If such a difference is possible, what might account for it?

Thanks!

bahzob

Just on the subject of coaching and OP.

If you can afford a coach year round every year then great having one is better than not having one.

If you can't and, say can only afford 6 months a year then I would advise that 6 months is in lead up to and during A events. Fact is so long as you do some training and maintain fitness over winter a coach won't add that much.

On other hand during build/peak coach will help a lot, both in terms of focus and, perhaps, forcing you to rein back on your load to taper correctly. Also whichever coach chosen should be a specialist in A event. If, for example, you want to step through the road race cats the coach should be an experienced road racer. The advice they can give in terms of tactics/learning from races will probably be as important as their input into fitness plan. Ditto if you plan to do time trials or sportives.