Warm-up best practice

General Discussion
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Hi,

My trainer is an Elite Direto connected with FE-C ANT+ to Zwift, ERG mode is enabled and it works fine for power requirements above 120W.

The thing that kills my mind is related with the warm-up session on any workout from Zwift. All those starts with a power requirement of 40-50W and RPM of +80. Now, If I’ll try to keep the RPM my wattage will go towards 200W, if I try to maintain the required W (even tho is a bit hard to do it, my RPM will be somewhere around 20-30 RPM and Zwift will say to speed up.
Actually, I’ve realized that also some other interactive cycling apps have a similar warm-up, low power and high RPM so the question is which one is the best to follow for warm-up sessions, power or RPM?

Thanks and BTW, I’m trying to find the best practice here for a good warm-up session.

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Hi @Alex_Rotar

Best is to follow the Power (w). You can change the the small front chainring if you want to increase your cadence.

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Is your FTP set correctly in Zwift? Because that’s what it will base those power targets on.