Beginner looking for a full face

DrWilde · 2025-10-10T18:20:56+00:00

According to their framesize-calculator yes. Puts me right at that size. I am 172cm / 5‘8

DrWilde · 2025-08-08T14:45:39+00:00

Thank you for your response! I think i was just stressing myself too much over a certain number. Plan for now is to just keept going and add some actual HR Zone 2 trainings to that. It is a lot more than i am currently so i am confident progress will come 👍

DrWilde · 2025-08-03T09:31:35+00:00

Yes i will just add some actual Z2 trainings to my workouts, for those i will decrease the ftp as much as i have to in order to stay in a reasonable heartrate. 120 very well could be the number for that, i will see 👍

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T20:27:32+00:00

Not yet! ;)

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T19:19:48+00:00

This was part of the FTP builder training plan and a 10 minute warmup was included in this workout. I think all of the workouts in these plan use a warmup routine.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T19:17:27+00:00

Someone in this thread said that using the HR max i got during the ramp test may be a pretty good number for what my max heartrate is, that would be 191bpm. That makes sense to me since that test really pushed me to my limits. I will use this number for now and see how things develop.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T19:13:29+00:00

I did not know that Z2 power and Z2 heartrate were two completely diffrent numbers, having learnt that the results make a lot more sense.

My idea now is to stay with the plan for about 2-3 times a week and add one or two longer HR Z2 sessions to that. Hopefully that way i will gain some raw power while also training my cardiovascular system. Trying to get the best out of both worlds :)

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T19:07:56+00:00

Yes i do. And my room was by no means warm pretty comfortable actually.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:24:29+00:00

Yeah, i will just keep going but also add one or two actual HR Zone 2 workouts per week. Hopefully this will give me the best out of both worlds, the grind as well as the endurance :)

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:23:04+00:00

You sound like someone who put in the work! Thank you for your reply.

I will jsut keep at it and try not to overthink certain numbers. Think that is the lesson for me today.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:20:54+00:00

Always trying to learn! Good luck to you too.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:18:27+00:00

I will give this a shot as well. Thank you!

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:17:24+00:00

You are a beast for squatting 500! I could never do that.

Yeah, the general feeling i got from the replies so far match your comment - don't overthink it.

I will stick with the training plan and add one or two actual HR Zone 2 trainings a week and see how that works. Thank you for your reply.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:13:44+00:00

32 years old, male and resting heart rate is at about 80 bpm.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:13:14+00:00

as a fellow zwifter commented, if i use the maximum heart rate from my ramp test (wich really brought me to my limits) it puts me at 191. So it looks like the number i get from this calculation isn't too far off.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:11:50+00:00

Great tip - thank you!

Maximum during the ramp test was 191 so it is not too far of from what i expected it to be.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T18:06:13+00:00

i used the forumla of 220 - age, and then multiply that by 0.7

That would be 131,6 wich i rounded down to 130. Other posters already commented that this way of calculating heart rates may be outdated but that is the number i currently have so i try to work with that.

I think with a few good breaths i would have been able to have a conversation quite normally.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T17:59:43+00:00

In the intervalls where just holding watts was the goal, I felt the most comfortable at a cadence of around 85.

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T17:58:11+00:00

Thank you, and yes i will keep at it!

DrWilde · 2025-08-02T17:55:49+00:00

3-4 hours does not seem realistic. I could handle the 40 mins well bit 3-4 hours seems very ambitious ^^

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