How many Watts do you produce?
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How many Watts do you produce?
Postby janus77 » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:38 am
I only just realised the cycling machines in our gym (which i use 3-4 times a week) have a wattage reading.
Yesterday i did a 60 minute program with the resistance increasing every 10 min.
Started off at about 120 watts, then the by the last 10 min was on level 12 averaging 95rpm at 260 watts.
interested to hear what others make, gives me an even greater respect for the power the pros put out, i know the last 10 min was not sustainable over much longer a time, so i must've been over my LT.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:09 pm
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby Parker » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:15 pm
More than youjanus77 wrote:Out of interest, what sort of wattage are people putting out here?
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby JV911 » Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:30 pm
that is kinda like a MAP test and you're never going to produce your maximum under those circumstances. for example my MAP is about 370 but 5 second max is over 1000.janus77 wrote:Started off at about 120 watts, then the by the last 10 min was on level 12 averaging 95rpm at 260 watts.
you should proably also quote your weight (i'm 72kg)
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby toolonglegs » Fri Sep 17, 2010 3:55 pm
Now if I was my target 82 kgs I would have pretty good numbers...but as I am closer to 100kgs my numbers are pretty crap .
Numbers are good for tracking your progress...but a bit pointless in comparing to others.
Also your own numbers need to be taken in context...you may have a max 5 sec of 1400 but only be able to produce 1100w in an actual sprint after a hard race etc.
Still I would rather have the numbers than not .
My ftp now is probably about 275
PS...I was a on gym machine yesterday as well...it was so far out it wasn't even worth looking at the numbers...in other words they are often RUBBISH.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby sogood » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:23 pm
RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:46 pm
So, yeah, I'd say I generate about 10 whats per day.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby tripstobaltimore » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:06 pm
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby toolonglegs » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:37 pm
What are your future "goal" races or events?tripstobaltimore wrote:My current FTP is 314W, but that is going down steadily due to laziness. My weight is currently at 93kg, which is going up steadily too. Due to laziness. I really need to get the motivation to start training again, motivation is at an all time low.
Do you have training partners?.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby Comedian » Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:22 pm
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby twizzle » Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:57 pm
Train or I'll come and harass you!tripstobaltimore wrote:My current FTP is 314W, but that is going down steadily due to laziness. My weight is currently at 93kg, which is going up steadily too. Due to laziness. I really need to get the motivation to start training again, motivation is at an all time low.
Did that help?
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby tripstobaltimore » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:14 am
Well I've got noosa coming up, somehow that still can't motivate me! I used to be so motivated, training at least 4hrs a day. Now I groan at a one hour swim I do have training partners but they are kind of sporadic. Arghhh! Im just hoping taking it easy (and maintaining somewhat) will re-ignite the fire.toolonglegs wrote:What are your future "goal" races or events?tripstobaltimore wrote:My current FTP is 314W, but that is going down steadily due to laziness. My weight is currently at 93kg, which is going up steadily too. Due to laziness. I really need to get the motivation to start training again, motivation is at an all time low.
Do you have training partners?.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby janus77 » Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:49 am
Might do a bit more online research on this, seems like a good training tool to monitor wattage.
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Re: How many Watts do you produce?
Postby Robdog » Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:10 pm
A what is a unit of energy?
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