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I'm coach Jonathan Lee and here with me is coach Chad Timmerman. Hi everybody and

Nate Pearson CEO of trainer road. Hello

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We'll kick things off this week with Kevin's question

Kevin starts off by giving us a compliment. So of course we'll read his question. We always like that great podcast keep it going

Good to hear he says you frequently retweet users that post massive FTP gains for an example 20% gain in six weeks

That was a retweet that you had on November 22nd or that we had on November 22nd a

13% increase in one month and on and then another one 30% increase in 12 months. So big gains that people are getting

It's just kind of what happens right when you use trainer road big gains so

But he has a question and I think it actually works out pretty well

He says I'd be interested in hearing you all discuss how much of this might be due due to genuine physiological adaptation

In other words like a true gain as opposed to an athlete that's new to testing and just getting more experience with FTP tests or

Bouncing back from a long training hiatus in other words help us be realistic about the range of gains we might see

So we're not shattered when we don't double our FTP in four months

Chad, what do you have to say on this one?

Yeah, Kevin you're actually right on when we see big gains like that

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