4/6/2023 0 Comments Trainerroad goldencheetah![]() When I first did the 4DP test I was coming off the couch having just beaten a particularly nasty bout of flu, which took me off the bike for a few weeks. Once you’ve finished the test, the app tells you your rider type and recommends workouts that will help improve your weakness as well as those that play to your strengths. It consists of a couple of 5-second efforts, one 5-minute effort, the standard 20-minute effort and finally a particularly miserable 1-minute effort. The one-hour Full Frontal test itself is not easy. The 4DP profile gives you a few suprathreshold metrics and automatically applies them to your workouts Colin Levitch / Immediate Media Xert has a similar feature set in its app. Not only does 4DP help you define these various thresholds based on your physiology, but then the app automatically applies them to the all the workouts in The Sufferfest’s catalogue - all you have to do is complete the Full Frontal Video. It’s here where The Sufferfest has done something quite exciting for the everyday rider who’s looking to get faster. These apps are also not particularly user-friendly and are targeted at coaches, not riders like you and I. If you’re willing to do a bit of reading, there are plenty of books where you can learn to calculate these values on your own, and there are other apps such as WK04 and Golden Cheetah that will calculate these values but won’t tell you what to do with them. Henderson, Cassons, Apex Coaching and The Sufferfest did not invent supra-threshold, a fatigue resistance profile or the idea that two riders with the same FTP will perform differently once you go above that threshold, nor do they claim to. And this is where the controversy with the 4DP platform lies.įull Frontal is The Sufferfest’s new fitness test Colin Levitch / Immediate Media Sufferfest claims this better tailors the intervals to what you’re capable of doing rather than basing them on a percentage of your FTP as the majority of the other training apps do. What Full Frontal does is define these above-FTP thresholds (supra-threshold) to identify your rider type and then takes this information and applies it to each of the workouts inside the app. ”There are guys who are really good at sprints who can put down big watts but struggle with long efforts, and then you get other guys who can do eight minutes way harder than they should be able to based on their FTP, but can’t sprint.” “As soon as you go north of FTP, the variation in the population is just massive,” said Mac Cassin of Apex Coaching, who played a role in developing 4DP. The Sufferfest claims this better isolates your FTP and also gauges your physiological systems above threshold. So instead of the standard 20min FTP test where you basically do a time trial and then average the power for that duration, Full Frontal is broken into four different efforts - neuromuscular, anaerobic capacity, maximal aerobic power, and FTP. This new platform is based around a fitness test called Full Frontal, which was developed by Henderson over years of working with top-level athletes across many disciplines. ![]() FTP is dead, The Sufferfest claims, and launches 4DP training.When The Sufferfest launched its 4DP training system, there was a fair bit of controversy for an update to a training app. You can connect The Sufferfest app to Strava and TrainngPeaks for automatic uploads after you finish a workout Ben Delaney / Immediate Media 4DP - FTP 2.0 (When used on a Mac, this also turns down the music volume, though, so you have to turn the volume back up separately.) If the workout is just a touch too hard or too easy, a quick tap on the down or up arrow will fix that. This is especially useful when riding a smart trainer. One small (but key) feature is the ability to adjust workout intensity on the fly. If you don’t have a power meter (or a smart trainer), the app has a virtual power function that lets you train with watts based on a trainer-specific algorithm that incorporates speed and cadence. If you are using a smart trainer such as a Kickr, then the app controls the resistance. When tools for each are paired via Bluetooth or ANT+, you get color-coded feedback as to whether you are at, above or below the targets. The preview function for each is good, showing the workout in bar-graph form, giving a text overview and bulletpoint synopsis, but also offering a video preview of the workout.Įach workout has intervals with specific targets for heart rate, power and cadence. There are 47 workout videos, searchable by type and duration. Previews for each are provided in text, interval detail and video form Ben Delaney / Immediate Media Workouts can be searched by type or duration.
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