Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

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

and our CEO and co-founder Nate Pearson. Hello

And today we're gonna take all of your coaching training related questions as we do every week

You can submit your questions to us at support at trainer road calm

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We'll go ahead and kick things off with Lee sets question first. She asks or she says hello

In order to get the most accurate FTP how much pressure do I have to put on the trainer against the tire and she has in parentheses

How many turns?

Okay, so on this question there's two things one if you're using a power meter

It doesn't matter how tight the pressure is all I kind of recommend is

Like what I do is I tighten down the rear tire and then I kind of use my hand and jerk it so that it doesn't slip because you don't want any

Slipage while you're riding and that's just annoying if you're using something called virtual power

Which is a trainer road product that turns your trainer into a power meter and what we do there is

We have power curves for trainers

So like at a Kirk kinetic road machine. We've hooked up a power meter to that and we've tested the

The power at different speeds and then with the speed sensor you can train like you have a power meter

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