Question about Friel's FTP Test

He means slower.

It's a poor approximation stemming form the Cycling 20-minute FTP test where you use 95% of your 20minute power as your FTP.

A better way to estimate the boundary between moderate and severe exercise domains is CP testing. If you're already doing a 20 or 30 minute test, just do a 3 minute max test and you can estimate CP and W'.

Friel is really really truly the absolute worst. Excellent businessman, A charlatan of a coach. He can’t even pay good people to get coached by him. The whole training bible & training peaks is built on a mountain of lies. His books are chock full of bro science (total immersion swimming technique, pose method for running). His workouts are overly complex and nuanced and stuffed full of false precision (run 15 min at zone 1a, ramping into 2b, then 3x2x4 of 30 sec in zone 4 (NOT 5!!) , floating back to 3, then 2.). It’s basically over complicated on purpose to sell people coaching and training peaks subscriptions.

I’ve had world class coaching and you could fit their training plans on a 5x7 card. like warm up 8x1000m, this much jogging rest. No HR Bull, pacing for a couple key workouts each week, everything else is on feel.