Plan request: No races - Just improve FTP

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44, 85kg, <6mo w/ TR.

Looking for plan builder recommendations for:

  • No races planned.
  • Just improve FTP.
  • Would like fitness to be able to ride centuries & hill climbs.
  • Stretch goal is to be at 4w per kilogram by december. 80kg & 320w.

Currently high volume - sweetspot & century speciality. 260w ftp.

Thanks

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Yeah that would be something id be interested in too !:+1:

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For these goals I think you could just repeat SSB I & II, Sustained Power Build, [repeat]. No need to do Century Speciality unless you have a specific event to prepare for. Otherwise youā€™re just trying to get your FTP as high as possible while optimizing your weight.

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Thank you. Is this a manually chosen thing or through plan builder?

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Give it a go? Takes 2 seconds to add/delete events and plans from plan builder.

Even still, wouldnā€™t hurt to do something like climbing road race speciality, given what you said you want to do.

Perhaps when you run through plan builder, select ā€˜never done indoor trainingā€™ which will focus you more on base/build.

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Use Plan Builder, choose the ā€œI donā€™t have any eventsā€ option, and pick something like the Gran Fondo emphasis (or any other that interests you and aligns with your goals) and you should be set.

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@mcneese.chad thanks for that. my condolences to you on your recent losses. glad to hear your voice on the podcast.

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Haha. Wrong Chad.

In addition to his advice, sometimes I just create an event even though I donā€™t race to help me time things. Example - Iā€™m going on a 10 day vacation. Iā€™ll make that my event so that I peak right before it and then have an FTP test the week I return and start my next phase.

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Ah. thanks bud. I appreciate the recommendation.

Matthew

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As mentioned, Iā€™m not Coach Chad Timmerman.
Iā€™m just an active forum member who helps here too.

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Understood. Thank you for your help.

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