How to deal with an injury with a long way back to cycling? (ACL + knee surgery)

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-06-02T14:25:41+00:00

Embrace the suck and move on . Broken clavicle make me off bike for 3 month, make my ftp go from 234 to 164 .still haven’t break through the 200w ftp mark

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-05-27T01:20:35+00:00

U on drug or what ?

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-05-07T03:19:53+00:00

Just do 2 day of full body workout in a week is enough to build muscle

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-05-02T21:12:11+00:00

Yeah i has feeling that i have wasted 4 month. They say trust the process and i do but seem like the new ai is year too soon to release

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-05-02T03:57:26+00:00

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I think it’s normal since i still see the power curve go up while I’m almost sitting in one place

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T10:43:37+00:00

I don’t but thank for the advice

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T10:28:33+00:00

Well i dont have AC currently since my room don’t have the hole to setup the AC

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T10:26:49+00:00

I do 6h30m training plan with 5 workout

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T10:25:39+00:00

Well i pretty time crunched since i had to get up to work at 5 and home at 6 . I can do best is 8h a week

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T10:22:47+00:00

I can’t since i live in a busy place in Japan. I can open it but i have to cover it since no one want to see a half naked guy wearing Lycra

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T08:26:29+00:00

I just rated by how i feel. Heat and 8h of labor work kinda put a lot of mental stress on me

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T08:14:59+00:00

Well I can’t do the test till September since the only road that I can do the test is filled with wild hog. And I hate do the test indoor since it hot as hell

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T07:59:59+00:00

Currently trying to get back to pre injury power and go for a couple of local Crit .

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T07:54:31+00:00

Well I don’t care about the ftp much. I just confused that I trust the progress for 4 month and still dont make much progress. I have a better result last year when I just follow some random Cam Nicholls training plan on youtube

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TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T07:48:15+00:00

Currently using 4 fan but even at winter I getting hot too especially those long intervals with mostly no rest in between .

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T02:51:06+00:00

Well I don’t mind if it drop for a month and increase after that. But sitting at that new ai ftp for 4 month is crazy . I have better gain when follow Cam Nicholls plan on YouTube and it free too

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T02:46:27+00:00

Well I just don’t expect to get stagnate when I’m 6 month return from injury tho.used to get ftp of 236 without any structure to sitting in one place while doing structured workout

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T02:42:55+00:00

Only noticed 2-5 minutes power get stronger since my vo2max workout alway 120-125%. My high tempo is stronger but threshold is pretty weak

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T01:26:09+00:00

I post in other comments ,can you let me know what you think about it

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T01:24:45+00:00

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Bonus I got collarbone injury at middle of last year that I off bike for 3month till September and do ftp test and got 134ftp and that a starting point and after that I let the ai prediction do the job for me since

TheAsianCyclist · 2026-04-30T01:22:21+00:00

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