Good day all. I recently performed my best ever 15 and 8 min avg watts in 1 workout. My FT jumped by 15 Watts but worryingly my HIE decreased by 0.6kj (23.7 - 23.1). I always thought that they’re related or am I wrong? What kind of training will i crease my HIE again? Thank you
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You HIE is supposed to be increased when you accumulate Xhss, i.e. work above TP. You might want to share your breakthrough graph if you want comments on your breakthrough.
It could be that your HIE should be higher and TP lower. I believe that is the case for my latest breakthroughs as well. I guess it is a matter of finding a workout that will prove that to Xert.
Thank you for your response. I have attached the breakthrough graph. I previously did the exact same FTP test in December and my ft jumped by 8watts as well as my HIE jumped by 1kj. This time around it went down. So what kind of training would you say increases HIE?
Looks like a fair breakthrough. What is the duration of the steady orange/red interval? You can play around with the TP and HIE in the workout and press refresh. Maybe try increasing HIE a bit and reducing TP and see your options. You should be able to validate your PP by doing short 5-10 secs all out with good rest between the intervals.
You might want to try the A Pain That I’m Used To workout to get a new breakthrough. I have made a variante of this where the work intervals are in slop mode while the rest intervals are in ERG mode. This makes it very easy to give it all during each workout.
Also, make sure you run some of the Garmin datafield on your Garmin Edge if you have one. It will tell you once you get a breakthrough. Then push all you can as long as you can. And keep doing that for the next intervals. I had a breakthrough very early, but were still able to pull down the MPA down to TP multiple times during the workout, and that gave an impact on the final breakthrough calculation.
