{"id":4147,"date":"2022-04-05T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wahoofitness.com\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:46:10","slug":"going-beyond-threshold-power-the-systm-4dp-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wahoofitness.com\/blog\/going-beyond-threshold-power-the-systm-4dp-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Beyond Threshold Power – The SYSTM 4DP Power Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the advent of accurate, reliable smart trainers like the KICKR and KICKR ROLLR<\/a>, more athletes are taking advantage of the benefits of training with power. With that comes a greater focus on metrics like Functional Threshold Power (FTP). For the uninitiated, FTP is typically defined as the highest power output you can maintain for an hour. Many cyclists and coaches see FTP as the mother of all metrics, designing workouts and training plans around moving that single number up. Conventional thinking held that if you wanted to improve your threshold power, you should focus your training on threshold efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with that approach is that it fails to take into account the variation in how individual athletes produce power across a range of durations and intensities. Even athletes with the same FTP can have very different capabilities when it comes to pushing out watts above threshold.  This variation makes it difficult to design a one-size-fits-all training approach based on the single metric of FTP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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