I went through several months of declining fitness due to medical issues. During this time, I wasn’t updating my FTP in Zwift to match my actual fitness. I was just doing group rides where FTP didn’t matter. In order to repair my Fitness chart, I’d like to fix these inaccurate FTP readings by copying over the eFTP value as it was on the day of each ride. That value has a very clear and consistent decline and I believe it’s an accurate reflection of my actual FTP over time.
This would be possible if you could use special variables inside the calendar multi-select FTP modification tool. For example just use the variable “$eFTP” or something. But maybe this feature already exists and I just haven’t found it yet? Or maybe there is some other way to accomplish the same thing relatively easily?
Would it be feasible to have a solution where the “FTP” field could be filled with something like “=eftp”, allowing it to automatically copy the eFTP values valid at the date of each activity?
eFTP is already there, tantalizingly close! But we currently can’t really use it. And, oh dear, eFTP is so handy. I remember how other coaches here used to say, “you don’t even need to test athletes anymore”. Definitely, eFTP deserves a little more love.
I mentioned this idea in another thread, but I would like to bring it up again here, since I found this topic while searching the forum for methods the community uses to define FTP retroactively after importing activity history.
Every time I onboard a new athlete into Intervals, it takes hours and hours of manual work to select time periods and assign FTP values, based on major eFTP trends. In many cases, simply linking FTP to the corresponding eFTP would already help immensely.
