First FTP test ever - is it valid?

One of the benefits of the KM test he says is that one of the advantages is that, after a few of them, you get to be able to “feel” the point when, as he puts it “you start to fatigue a lot faster at that point than you do before it”

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Once you finish the test how is the FTP calculated?

It’s the average power from the test.

His test uses a target power that you think you can average for the effort. You start below the expected average and then increase the power after 3-5 minutes, and then again at 15 minutes. The more you do this, the better you get at it.

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Here’s KM’s blog post, from TP, where he describes his test vs the traditional 20m test.