Workouts to Replace FTP test

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Does anyone NOT FTP test? Ramp or otherwise

Just throwing it out there. I am going on my 3rd year of TR. I don’t hate ramp tests at all. I used to really like the 20 min test and the ramp test is fine, though I don’t think it suits me all that well. But my point is that a test has NEVER surprised me up or down. Going into the tests, I think about what they could/should be and that is about what I get. Now, I can understand that this thinking could influence the 20 min test, with its straightforward math. But in the ramp test, I never fig…