Turbo Trainer Help!
Discussion
I'm a fair weather rider, there I've said it... I know rule 5 will be shouted at me but you know what... I ride for fun and if it's wet and windy I'll don the neoprene and go sailing.
I'm not doing a Gruffy and feel a need to pop to Bilbau for Tapas, Edinburgh for Irn Bru, Wales for lavabread (and see Yam Yo Mo & Mrs B) or race halfway across what was Europe in a couple of days so there's no real need for me to go out in s
te weather.
But, this being England does mean that I don't get out on teh bike as much as I should and it woudl be good to lose a little weight and get stronger legs (helps with sailing) so I've got a Turbo and thought it woudl be good to start to use it.
But how?
I had a go yesterday and set myself a programme which was;
- set a reasonable cadence (80/90) in a moderate gear which gave a fair pace (17/8mph) which I maintained for half an hour.
- the Turbo has 5 clicks of increasing resistence
- so every 5 minutes I increased resistence by 1 click whilst maintaining cadence.
- then 5 minute recovery back with no resistence.
- for the 2nd half hour I kept the same gear but increased cadence to 90/100 which increased speed to 20mph.
- then increased by a click every minute.
Am I on the right track or does anyone have any other(better) programmes?
I'm not doing a Gruffy and feel a need to pop to Bilbau for Tapas, Edinburgh for Irn Bru, Wales for lavabread (and see Yam Yo Mo & Mrs B) or race halfway across what was Europe in a couple of days so there's no real need for me to go out in s
te weather.But, this being England does mean that I don't get out on teh bike as much as I should and it woudl be good to lose a little weight and get stronger legs (helps with sailing) so I've got a Turbo and thought it woudl be good to start to use it.
But how?
I had a go yesterday and set myself a programme which was;
- set a reasonable cadence (80/90) in a moderate gear which gave a fair pace (17/8mph) which I maintained for half an hour.
- the Turbo has 5 clicks of increasing resistence
- so every 5 minutes I increased resistence by 1 click whilst maintaining cadence.
- then 5 minute recovery back with no resistence.
- for the 2nd half hour I kept the same gear but increased cadence to 90/100 which increased speed to 20mph.
- then increased by a click every minute.
Am I on the right track or does anyone have any other(better) programmes?
Before Sufferfest came out I was given a CD called Spin Doctor. I used it but got bored of the tunes so in the end I used to plug in the head phones and after a warm up I used to ride at 17ish MPH at 85ish rpm for a song, next some would drop a cog trying to maintain 17ish at 85ish, next song I went back up. Used to do that for 30 mins and vary the cog drops to 2 or 3 when I got fitter.
get an ant+ speed sensor and sign up to trainerroad / zwift anyway.
That said, my smart trainer spends 90% of it's time in slope mode and I have moved zwift->trainerroad->nothing. Just do planned sets and get on with it..
Unless you have a plan, gamification in whatever form is probably a good idea, turbos are tedious, but they're a very effective tool
What do you sail btw?
That said, my smart trainer spends 90% of it's time in slope mode and I have moved zwift->trainerroad->nothing. Just do planned sets and get on with it..
Unless you have a plan, gamification in whatever form is probably a good idea, turbos are tedious, but they're a very effective tool
What do you sail btw?
AmiableChimp said:
Marcellus said:
AmiableChimp said:
I've got a code for a free month on Trainerroad if you'd like to give it a try.
It transformed my usage and tolerance for turbo sessions over last winter!
That's really great yhm!!It transformed my usage and tolerance for turbo sessions over last winter!
As someone who uses the turbo only, I don't really cycle but wanted something to replace the ergo after I delaminated a bicep tendon, I've been using a bkool and found it pretty decent.
One of my proper cyclist friends used it several times in training for riding a bunch of alpine stages on a 'holiday' - col du telegraph was one, his comment was that it was pretty accurate and a little harder on the turbo. The only issue is that you have to stay seated
One of my proper cyclist friends used it several times in training for riding a bunch of alpine stages on a 'holiday' - col du telegraph was one, his comment was that it was pretty accurate and a little harder on the turbo. The only issue is that you have to stay seated
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