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{"id":4436,"date":"2014-11-28T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T23:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:07:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T18:07:31","slug":"efficient-functional-threshold-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/2014\/11\/28\/efficient-functional-threshold-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficient Functional Threshold Power (FTP) – Podcast #47"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this age of power meters and quantified training, athletes spend hours upon hours, days upon days poring over power files and searching for a way to get ahead of the competition. \u00a0They hope against hope that there's a magic bullet out there that will suddenly catapult them to the front of the pack. \u00a0And all too often, they believe that magic bullet is raising their functional threshold power (abbreviated as FTP.) \u00a0But is a simple number the key to destroying your rivals on the Sunday group ride, the Saturday criterium or the Tuesday Night Worlds?<\/p>\n

In today's podcast I discuss the concept of efficiency as it relates to FTP\u00a0or what I refer to as “Efficient Threshold Power”. \u00a0I'll talk about some of the following concepts:<\/p>\n

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