PWC170 Test
I’ve just done another PWC170 test on my turbo trainer. Hopefully this one is more accurate as well as the first one I did allowed me to find the Power Outputs that I should be working at to provide workrates of 120-140 bpm for the first 6 minute effort and 150-170bpm for the second 6 minute effort.
The first time I did it I had to ramp up to 180 Watts and 260 Watts respectively to achieve the heart rates. Today I was able to start at those wattages and sit at them for the whole 6 minutes. They actually worked out just a little too low as my heart rate after the first 6 minutes was 120bpm and after the second 6 minutes it was only 149bpm. I shall increase the wattages by 10 watts each next time to see how that works out.
According to my PWC170 calculator that gives me a score of 318. So, my power output at 170bpm should be 318 Watts. Hopefully as I do more training that will increase.
