The Cost/Benefit of Improving FTP vs FRC vs PMAX vs VO2Max

The goal of this series is to explore the balancing act of training.

If you focus a block on PMAX/FRC, your FTP goes down. Can you afford to do that?

Conversely, if you focus solely on FTP, how do you know if you'll have the kick to win the sprint at the end of a road race?

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Cost/Benefit -What are we talking about
WKO5 Terms- understand physiology

Pmax
FRC
mVO2max
mFTP
Stamina
TTE


Pmax/FRC
Raise only both, your stamina/tte/mftp would go down
Train only this, you will become more and more of a “track sprinter”


mVO2max
This will make your ability to crush short stuff go up, but is really fatiguing.
Requires an intense dose to work

mFTP
Higher is better, but worth it if it costs you your punch?
Absolute watts vs w/kg


Stamina (riding at high percentage of ftp past 75m or so)
Very trainable, and important to being able to do a lot of events with sustained output, Think long sweet spot
Cost: pace changing gets hard/ frc and pmax would both go down

TTE
Good for 40k tt’s/long hill climbs
If your events are less than an hour you wouldn’t need a longer tte