Scott McMillan : Endurance Junky

Stumpled upon this great article on Pezcyclingnews.com according to the study mentioned in this article experienced riders have shown increases of this magnitide by training with PowerCranks. Check out the article interesting stuff. Who needs EPO if you can improve like that legally…

Here is the most significant results of the three tests.

1. Pre PC test February 2006
VO2 Max 4962 ml/min
VO2 Max rel 71,19 ml/min/kg
Max Power 405 Watts at 178 bpm
FTP (1 hour): 284 Watts at 169 bpm at 79% of VO2 Max
Long term sustainable power - 223 watts at 155 bpm

2. Testing results for October 2006:
VO2 Max 5609 ml/min
VO2 Max rel 82,7 ml/min/kg
Max Power 425 Watts at 181 bpm
FTP (1 hour): 358 Watts at 170 bpm at 89% of VO2 Max
Long term sustainable power - 262 watts at 150 bpm

These changes were so large that my doctor performing this test, Doctor Durantez of the Spanish cycling federation, didn’t believe them at first so repeated the test.

[Ed note: This represents a 13% increase in VO2 max, a 16% increase in VO2 max/_kg, only a 5% increase in max power, but a whopping 26% increase in his FTP (1 hour) power and a 17% increase in long term sustainable power.

3. Testing results for April 2007
VO2 Max. 5794 ml/min
VO2 Max rel. 85,46 ml/min/kg
Max Power 451 Watts at 181 bpm_
FTP (1 hour): 394 Watts at 169 bpm at 87% of VO2 Max
Long term sustainable power - 275 watts at 146 bpm