Turbo Trainer Advice

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Chalfie in reply to @pifko

Quoting dbr here:

Having gone smart, I wouldn’t go back. I reckon the quality of the
workout is better as you can’t fail to hit the power targets. It also
removes the mental strain of concentrating on hitting the targets all
the time. Just the luxury of an hour or three every week when you can
listen to a podcast or just think about stuff if worth it to me. I
tried my dumb trainer again with my brother’s power tap wheel a while
ago and it was just awful - mentally draining and not helpful training
wise at all.

You could argue that the mental aspect of holding a certain target is
helpful for training, but having raced HCs (basically exactly that for
similar-to-turbo-trainer durations) I’ve not found it to be the case.

What if you just stop pedaling on a smart trainer?
That's how I fail to finish my "intervals". Because I LEAVE IT ALL OVER THE GARDEN/ROAD/NO SURRENDER. etc etc.
Or I just think "fuck that" and skip one.

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dbr in reply to @Chalfie

On the “not having to concentrate” thing, this morning I skipped the podcast and concentrated on the workout. I think I got a slightly better training effect and didn’t bail on anything. I visualised this weekends’ races. Would do again.

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pascalo in reply to @dbr

Using Erg mode for me does not mean not having to concentrate ... when it's a solid workout i usually am counting down the seconds, music or not, and have to summon all my will power to make it to the half way point of first the effort, then the current block, then the workout itself, then the last half of the workout etc ...

Most of my hard effort cycling is "tricking" myself to make it half way of something and so I then go "well, I came half way, I might as well do the next half". Weird I am.

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