This Christmas I decided the best way to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ was to inflict a large amount of pain on my person by doing five different FTP (functional threshold power) tests. This ...

Doing an FTP test, or any maximal performance test for that matter, means taking time out of training. To perform optimally you need to taper beforehand and will likely need some recovery afterwards.

A new study based out of the University of Calgary is recruiting participants remotely to study how to quantify training load more realistically across multiple physiological systems.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Functional threshold power a.k.a. FTP is a metric familiar to many cyclists. Measuring the average power ...