Team presentation · Prologue
Rider profile
A 20 s sprint and 3, 6 and 12 minutes all out. Your threshold becomes your FTP, and you see how you burn fat and carbs.
How to test
- Warm up for 15 minutes, easy with a few short pick-ups.
- Sprint all out for 20 seconds, seated or standing, from a rolling start. Ride easy for 10 minutes.
- Ride 3 minutes as hard as you can hold, evenly. Recover for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Ride 6 minutes all out, recover 20 minutes, then 12 minutes all out. You can do the long ones on another day within a week.
- Use the same bike and power meter each time, so your tests compare.
Have a lactate meter? Prick a finger before the sprint, then every minute for 8 minutes after it, and enter the highest. Your VLamax is then measured rather than worked out from your powers.
Sign in to log your tests Free, by invitation for now. Just your email, no password.
Sign in and every test is kept with its date, so you see your threshold, VO2max and VLamax move through the season.
Every step and its source is on the method page.