If I complete Full Frontal in Wahoo Systm, the FTP value achieved there is meaningful and does not actually need to be corrected downwards. I think it’s a shame that Intervals corrects this value downwards anyway.
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I’m not following what you’re saying here @Nikosap. Are you saying the values you get when completing Full frontal were changed/corrected when you finished Full Frontal. The app will do that sometimes if the results don’t fall within certain guidelines.
@Glen.Coutts Believe he is saying Intervals.icu adjusts the number.
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I apologize for having expressed myself somewhat incomprehensibly. It is absolutely correct that I was talking about intervals.icu. Here the FTP value from the full frontal test is automatically corrected downwards, as makes perfect sense in a normal determination of the FTP value. However, Wahoo says that the FTP value measured by the Full Frontal does not need to be corrected, as NM and MAP are already measured in advance and fatigue therefore already takes effect in the FTP part of the test. I have already opened a corresponding post in the intervals.icu forum. As Wahoo naturally has no influence on how other platforms handle the values, this post can actually also be closed. In the screenshot you can clearly see how the value is corrected downwards from 217 to 207.
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This is based on how intervals.icu calculates FTP. It doesn’t “know” that you did Full Frontal, so it’s using a typical algorithm to evaluate your FTP based on your power data (looks like its taking 95% of your average 20 minute power). There are multiple algorithms, and it’s just looking to see if any of your new power intervals exceed existing numbers.
I also use intervals.icu, and it gave me a higher estimate of FTP than FF, because I had a high 5 minute power (so the message was FTP +8 from 5 min at xxxW).
You can adjust the FTP value manually so that intervals.icu matches FF.
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