Train for W/kg and Climbing
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Climbing W/kg is a Power×Body goal: raise FTP, manage mass without a crash diet, and ride hills that look like the event. Wearables keep the hard days honest.
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N+One stores climbing ambition as FTP W/kg (Power) or a Body goal with weight plus a climbing focus. The physiology does not care which screen you used. ChatGPT will tell you to “lose 5 kg and do sweet spot.” Connected to Garmin, Strava, Whoop, and intervals.icu, the next session should still be a hill that looks like your event — and a recovery score that vetoes a deficit-plus-intervals day. are about sustainable progression, not crash cuts.
FTP-anchored zones used in structured cycling work
Aerobic activity, progression, and health-related fitness
Polarized vs threshold distribution in endurance athletes
W/kg = FTP / mass. You can train the numerator (FTP builder) and nudge the denominator (body composition). Pick one primary for the block. If an Event is a hill climb, Event owns the date; W/kg is supporting.
Save ftp_wkg with start and target. A 0.2–0.4 W/kg change over 8–12 weeks is a serious project. A 1.0 jump in six weeks is usually water and a better test.
Seated threshold, over-unders, and a hilly long ride beat flat sweet spot only. Hill-climb events need VO2 too. Keep easy days easy so the climbs can be climbs. Tempo on every “endurance” ride makes W/kg training noisy.
Strength once or twice a week can support climbing if it does not ruin the next threshold day.
Keep reading. The bike work looks like a climb is the core. Sibling guides and Goals in N+One keep the thread.
If you change weight, do it with enough carbohydrate to complete quality sessions. This is not a meal plan. Large deficits plus VO2 is how Power goals die. Whoop recovery and sleep will show the cost before the scale does.
Medical conditions, disordered eating history, or rapid weight targets belong with a clinician — not a cycling blog.
Same climb, similar weather, or the same indoor protocol. Update the goal. Then either peak for the hill-climb date (taper) or hold and rebuild.
Eight-week W/kg block with one primary metric.
Save a W/kg or climbing Event goal, connect the stack, and ask for the next hill session that still leaves you able to eat and sleep.
Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed against N+One quality standards. This is training education, not medical advice.