Getting Your FTP Estimate

Before you can get your functional threshold power (FTP) estimate, you must pair a chest heart rate monitor and power meter with your watch (Pairing Your Wireless Sensors), and you must get your VO2 max. estimate (Getting Your VO2 Max. Estimate for Cycling).

The watch uses your user profile information from the initial setup and your VO2 max. estimate to estimate your FTP. The watch will automatically detect your FTP during rides at a steady, high intensity with heart rate and power.

  1. From the watch face, press to view the performance glance.
  2. Select the glance to view your performance data.
  3. Scroll to view your FTP estimate.

Your FTP estimate appears as a value measured in watts per kilogram, your power output in watts, and a position on the color gauge.

Purple

Superior

Blue

Excellent

Green

Good

Orange

Fair

Red

Untrained

For more information, see the appendix (These tables include classifications for functional threshold power (FTP) estimates by sex.).