Turbo Trainer Advice

Quite. Is there any specific technique?
It said to unclip but dangling one leg felt like I was going to mash my shin.
It did make me think I should probably do more though as I was rubbish.

My technique is to ignore the on-screen comments whenever single leg drills are mentioned. :)

at band camp...

I wish it had the sausage graphic of the watt bike, I found that really good for improving technique. No need for one legged stuff then!

If you can show me a study that shows one-legged drills can make you faster I'll reconsider them.

To save you googling, there's https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21330612 but it's weighted and high resistance which is basically like doing single legs squats rather than the single-leg spinning that TR does. Your time is better spent riding 'properly'.

I took it to be more a way to think about form, which might make you more efficient over faster.

Yeah, you'll get more efficient at riding with one-leg.

See also article on more recent study on 'cycling efficiency'
https://www.outsideonline.com/2301366/training-makes-runners-more-efficient-not-cyclists

What were those cranks called that had a split differential in the bottom bracket so you had to apply equal force throughout the pedal stroke? They were meant to improve your pedalling efficiency, but basically had a negligible effect.

Powercranks?

https://youtu.be/VSQeQJ2Sc00

That’s the ones. Their website is a joy to behold, likely to bring out web designers in a cold sweat.

http://powercranks.com/?redirect=false

They don't still sell that shit do they?

Armstrong and Radcliffe got quicker through 'efficiency'... Hmmmm

Well it starts with 'e'.

I'm not clipped in, so I tend to skip those

I have had this issue when using a Vortex and crank based power meter. When you use your own PM, TR measures your power over 15 seconds, then bases the resistance for the next 15 on what you just did, i.e. power is up, down, and all over the place. It's the only thing that stops me using it, I was so glad when Zwift started offering ERG intervals. I did sign up for a free month on TR about a year ago in the hope that they'd fixed it, but sadly not.

The Zwift interval sessions don't suffer from this problem at all.

Interesting. Basically power match is unusable but I'm actually finding the vortex power measurement is pretty good now using it without power match, so it's OK.
It can't cope with cadence below about 75rpm. At that point the resistance shoots up and it becomes unrideable.
TR support have been pretty helpful. They told me that the vortex has the most problems of all trainers with power match

the vortex has the most problems of all trainers with power match

Not what I would want to read!!

Something else you might not want to read is that she said some people had found that workouts got noticeably easier on the vortex one it had warmed up

This happens on lots of turbos. I normally do 5-10min of warmup on the Computrainer, zeroing it a few times before firing up TR. With the fluid trainer it's just a bit of cadence change.

If I use erg on my tacx neo and stop pedalling when I go to pedal again it's has so much resistance until i get it spinning. Anyone else get this? Massive design flaw.

Ps. Erg mode is great.

Yes, on mine if you even drop below 70rpm you are struggling to get it back

Sure, just tr reckon it is worse on some vortex s than normal. I've not found it too bad on mine