FTP, workouts and climb portal events

General Discussion
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Hi!

I have two questions.

  1. I created a few workouts of my own. Will they be subject to changes in my FTP?
  2. How long duration must the climb portion of a climb portal event be to increase the FTP?

Kind regards!
P Zwiftsson

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  1. Depends where you created them. If you created within Zwift they are most likely to be based on % of FTP and will change when your FTP changes.

  2. Zwift can detect a change in FTP on any effort over 8 minutes. You should decide whether you want your FTP based on a short (8 min), medium (20 min) or long (60min) duration. Have you thought about just doing The Grade FTP test or Zwift’s 20 minute standard FTP test.

3

Thanks a lot!

I usually stick to the ordinary FTP Ramp Test for larger/experienced riders. I created the workouts inside zwift and an interesting thing is that ie a climb portal ride >8 min may affect the FTP which in turn affects my workout zones.:smiley:

4

It would affect your next workout if you get an FTP increase (assuming the workout power targets are %FTP) but if for some reason you don’t want that, you can set your FTP back to whatever it was before the increase.

5

Thanks. That’s a clever way to do it.:smiley: