Originally Posted by
RChung
You're advising new users to set a 5-10% goal for a ride?
Adding 5-10% for a "specific" interval is what I recommended (5% increases is what I do myself, at my stage of training), and that's for someone who's brand new to a power meter and really hasn't determined their peak power at each interval length. Telling them to do easily attainable 1% increases (as you might have them do), may cause them to take a long time (maybe an entire season) to find their peak power at that interval.
If someone finds that they can ride at 200 watts for 10 minutes, it really isn't that much of a stretch to attempt 210-220 watts for that same duration. And clearly someone who's been riding a long time and has plateaued, such as yourself, can make smaller wattage increases, or make any change to my recommended plan as they see fit, or totally disregard my plan.