Hi,
maybe it already exist, but today I thought about a Normalized Power Curve. Just like the normal Power Curve but just with the best NP efforts. That would be amazing. Often you do hard group rides where you have a high 1h NP without having a high avg P ad so on. It definitely would make it easier to track short time progression imo.
Is that a possible thing?
Thanks
I am with you.
There’s this thread Normalised power-duration curve?
Thanks. Haven’t seen that one.
Although you’ve started this as a Feature Request and the other thread is not. Maybe we are best stick with this thread @david ?
This has to be done…even if its not a full curve (it doesn’t make sense for less than 20min), it could be a hard coded record of PR’s
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any update?
wondering where this is in the queue. Thanks
Hi @david ,
Can we move up this in the queue?
Same here, I think it would be a great addition to the platform! @david or as havella said maybe adding something like a power profile for the NP values (or the more relevant time durations like 20m, 30m, 1h, 2h , 3h, …)
Hello I’ve just coded a graph to see the NP curve for a workout and made it public if you are interested you can find it looking for this on the activity charts (power section of a workout): np vs avg power workout curve. Should be open to everyone, tell me if you want it and can’t find it!
Also tell me if you find any issues with the readings, I tink it works well but I haven’t done a lot of testing, thanks!
I’ve been thinking lately of the seeming discrepancy of Intensity Factor for rides (and thus training stress) being based off normalised power, and the fact that power-duration curves are presented with average power. For someone who mostly rides outdoor rather than on a trainer, I wonder if a power-duration curve using normalised power would better represent my recent / season performance considering I think I’ve seen it stated that normalised power approximates to the average power you can put out on a flat course. Do people know if there is any reason other than convention that a normalised power duration curve doesn’t seem to be a “thing”? Does anyone else think this could be a good feature for intervals.icu?
An anecdote to accompany these thoughts: I did a 20min FTP test a couple of weeks ago. 1 week later, when well rested, I did a 1hr time trial on rolling hills. I was expecting/hoping that my 1hr power would be close to my FTP, but it was 10% down. However, my normalised power was within 1% of my FTP.
I would also love to see this implemented. I know it’s inconvenient to do so for the past activities as it needs to recalculate all normalized power intervals but it would be pretty cool to have this as an option.
I also have not seen this implemented anywhere else so it would definitely be added value.
I do have this on the todo list.
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I know of 1 online Cycling training site that does provide this graph. The only reason I use it still 
This request is duplicated here Get NP/Normalized in addition to Raw Power in Power curve - #14 by Coach_Ron
You must be talking about Quad Power. Quad power is average of every second of power raised to 4th power and then 4th root for defined time segment. This is “pure” Normalized Power.
Was searching for a topic to post this article in, guess this one is appropriate.
Coggan himself says that NP is not always the best measure, and you can test this yourself by doing intervals that are 30s long. One interesting effect can be the creation of an NP-buster ride where your one hour NP, which should be plus/minus 5% of your FTP, can be much higher.
Personally I prefer Bike Score and xPower by Dr Skiba, however using 25 as the decay factor gives, IMHO, too long a decay duration.
Hi, for longer rides id like to see the power curve featuring NP instead of power average.
Havent found this feature thanks
