Peter Attia· MD
when you can take functional threshold power divided by mass in kilos and get a number in watts per kilo that essentially predicts who's gonna win the race up a hill
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when you can take functional threshold power divided by mass in kilos and get a number in watts per kilo that essentially predicts who's gonna win the race up a hill
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but in cycling you have this thing called watts per kilo everything is watts per kilo if you lined up all the cyclists at the beginning of the tour to France and you could know what everybody's threshold was in watts per kilo that would predict the order they would finish barring strategic you know mishap or an injury or an accident
basically you could look at predictions of who would win the Tour absent a strategic blunder or an accident and it was all predicated by functional threshold power in watts per kilo so if you could know how many watts a cyclist could hold for 60 minutes divided by their weight you could and you line those up in descending order all things equal that was going to be your Championship finish