Cycling Fitness / Training Advice

Honeslty id just do easy riding. So for as much time as you have, ride as a pace you can have a conversation. Make the sessions nice and build a habit. Then when the habit is built and you're feeling healthy you can perhaps look to train. But also easy riding is where all the good stuff to the body happens.

Loose the weight by eating healthy.

Concentre on health (physical and mental) and fitness will come.

Buy a MTB, have loads of fun, embrace the roll.

Or as Skinny says, just go out and ride as easy as you possibly can. Go slow, look at some wildlife, chat with people. The fitness starts coming back, start thinking about training to sharpen the top end. 80:20 is pretty much just pissing around slowly for most of the time anyway

I'm not starting from zero, but I am starting from not using a bike more than once or twice in a few years, and not using a turbo for a long time, and I'm using Wahoo Systm, and I have kids, and I'm knackered, and I have a flubby muffin top.

I like to do 2 to 3 sessions a week, but only 1 or 2 of them hard (using the TSS to give the best indicator if effort - 80+ for hard, 50ish for keeping legs moving), and usually keep to 30 min to 1 hour.

I gravitate towards the sufferfest ones, as the video and music keeps me distracted.

Current ones that I like:

• The Bat
  
• Blender (mini)
  
• Butter
  
• Tapers
  
  

I have my (borrowed from Dammit) turbo set up in my office, so I can also just hop on when I'm working and spin for 10 minutes.