Özet:

The aim of this study is to study the impact of six-week high-intensity interval training applied to actively competing cyclists in Turkey on the values of Functional Threshold Power (FTP). The study has participated as 18 male cyclists volunteers who are actively competing nationally and internationally. The average age of cyclists involved in the study was 27.22±7.88 years, the average body weight was 71.77±4.39 kg, and the average size was 179.388±5.68 cm. By applying the pre-test and final test to cyclists with different devices from the Garmin connect app (Stage, Magene, Fsa, Quarq, 4iii) during training, the best 5 seconds, the best 1 minute and the best 5 minutes Watt values were obtained. The cyclists have a six-week interval training program. In the analysis of the obtained data, the SPSS 22.0 package program used the Shapiro-Wilk test to understand the normal distribution of data and the independent sample t-test to determine the differences between the athletes’ FTP values. At the end of 6 weeks, cyclists found a significant difference in statistically positive direction in all parameters (5 seconds, 1 minute and 5 minutes Watt values) (p<0.05). As a result, the six-week high intensity interval training program applied to cyclists has been shown to have a positive impact on performance values.

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