Dr. Coggan is also a cyclist who came up with an idea in the early 2000s that revolutionized the whole process of setting zones. He not only simplified the concept of AnT but also greatly reduced the need for lab testing to identify it and gauge fitness progress. His thinking went something like this: If we know that a well-conditioned endurance athlete can maintain AnT for about an hour, why not just do a 1-hour time trial and assume that the average heart rate, average pace, and average power for that hour represent AnT? Brilliant! This is easily understood by everyone, and there is no cost for expensive testing. Anyone can do it anytime. He called this new reference point the functional threshold. So FT is a simple stand-in for your AnT. This means that you have a functional threshold heart rate (FTHR), a functional threshold pace (FTPa), and a functional threshold power (FTPo). Each is simply the average of that metric from a 1-hour time trial. And just like AnT, they all vary by sport. For example, FTHR is not the same for cycling and running. It tends to be a bit higher for running than it is for cycling, and higher for cycling than for swimming.OK, quindi rimanendo in ambito FC è per entrambe circa il 90% della FCMax, non conoscevo la relazione tra le due.
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