In this, my, PDC profile power for durations of 30 s and longer seem to all fit very well, but the prediction for shorter durations goes up much higher than my real performance.
Background for that are i) that I am “old” , ii) that I am recovering from knee/leg injury and still miss muscle and strength (obvious but also measured using medical isokinetic-motion equipment). But also iii) that I never saw any peak power even close to the predicted value, not even 90 % of the modeled MPP… (I started cycling as a sport at age 50…)
Does my argumentation make sense? And does that mean that MAP/MPP is small not because MAP is too low but because the modeled MPP is too high?
What do I do about this? One point is obvious resistance strength training in the gym to build up muscle and power/strengths. But should I also do specific on-bike training, like short-sprint training, to raise my actual short-term (<30 s) power output?
All this should be seen in the context of my age-group gravel racing, i.e., 4–5 h races with quite irregular-power outputs and without coasting…
Joku, I’m guessing there was a power spike in your data that caused the MPP to be high. If that’s something you want to correct, you can always do a power profile test and that should be worked out. You can do that on Velocity!
As for increasing it, I find that with my gravel athletes, doing the 30/30s is a good way to raise the ceiling so that we can raise power at threshold. The 30/30s will increase your VO2max as well as your second threshold, thereby raising your capacity for threshold improvement. Then, when it comes time to really be gravel race specific and do a lot of the race pace or threshold intervals, we’re capable of doing more.
And yes, strength training will help prepare you to do more power intervals.
I am fairly certain there is no power spike in my data – if I look at the power-duration curve or simply my “best efforts” in intervals.icu over all training history, there is no such spike at all. Not even a “1 s” max power that get’s anywhere close…
I have done the full athletica.ai test suite – MAF, power profile, 20 min test 4 weeks ago. That’s what aai is using as the base for this prediction … and it’s “irritating”, vide supra.
Velocity doesn’t even record the L/R-balance from my indoor trainer, which is relevant to me… :-o
Thanks for the clarification, Joku. I’d still advise you to carry on with your training for gravel racing on Athletica. I’m finding it very useful for my own gravel racing and that of the athletes I coach. I also use Velocity for the 30/30s and threshold intervals. Let me know if you want to chat off the forum!
, ii) that I am recovering from knee/leg injury and still miss muscle and strength (obvious but also measured using medical isokinetic-motion equipment). But also iii) that I never saw any peak power even close to the predicted value, not even 90 % of the modeled MPP… (I started cycling as a sport at age 50…)