Measuring Dose Response After The First Phase Of Training
The rider in focus took an end of season break from the 11th October to the 28th October. Over this period mFTP (orange line) was on a progressive decline as the athlete takes his complete self away from the sport. As training commences the athlete is basically re gaining some basic aerobic fitness and as you can see mFTP is still declining all the way down to 321 watts.
Progressive overload of training is so important and using Ramp rate (Blue line) is an excellent way at looking a the dose response, especially the gap when the rider backs off and adaptations take place.
As we begin to increase the volume of training mFTP is given a little nudge up from below. This is the first time in a while the direction of this fitness marker starts to improve. Then as you can see it levels off and then marginally dips every so slightly, this is most likely due to athlete fatigue.
5th December we reach the end of the aerobic build. At this point we back off the training to allow recovery to take place. We then do an end of phase power profile to measure the response from what we have done.
Now it's time to measure the gap. Over a 7 day window the athletes begins to train but the key thing here is the response to mFTP 12 days after the end of aerobic build. mFTP jumps up to 382 watts. This information is very powerful for a coach as you can create a clear picture of the dose response of training load, adaptation and performance.
Did the training focus I put my athlete under have the correct response ? So in this example the focus was to re gain basic aerobic fitness and begin the process of pushing FTP up from below. As you can see it had an excellent response, plus we have a wealth of data to manage and track the next phase.
Evolve and progress your training and you can work wonders with your fitness.
Published by Jody Warrington
As we begin to increase the volume of training mFTP is given a little nudge up from below. This is the first time in a while the direction of this fitness marker starts to improve. Then as you can see it levels off and then marginally dips every so slightly, this is most likely due to athlete fatigue.
5th December we reach the end of the aerobic build. At this point we back off the training to allow recovery to take place. We then do an end of phase power profile to measure the response from what we have done.
Now it's time to measure the gap. Over a 7 day window the athletes begins to train but the key thing here is the response to mFTP 12 days after the end of aerobic build. mFTP jumps up to 382 watts. This information is very powerful for a coach as you can create a clear picture of the dose response of training load, adaptation and performance.
Did the training focus I put my athlete under have the correct response ? So in this example the focus was to re gain basic aerobic fitness and begin the process of pushing FTP up from below. As you can see it had an excellent response, plus we have a wealth of data to manage and track the next phase.
Evolve and progress your training and you can work wonders with your fitness.
Published by Jody Warrington