FTP in cycling is all homebrew lab testing and blatant exaggeration (but mine is still bigger than yours)

FTP increase.

I was out for a ride with my friend Bernard recently, when he suddenly said, “What’s your FTP, Michael?”

Only four words, yet fully two reasons to be suspicious. He only uses my name when he’s plotting something, and he’d only conceivably ask about my FTP for exactly the same reason.