The Limitations of FTP-Based Zone 2 Training: Why It Fails Endurance Athletes
Over the past two decades, Functional Threshold Power (FTP) has become the cornerstone for determining training intensities and tracking performance progression in cycling, triathlon and endurance sports. At its core, FTP is an attempt to approximate the physiological phenomena of the maximal lactate steady state, which is usually derived from a lactate profile test. The…