Good episode gents. I’ll consider myself weirder than I already thought now. Don’t mind a long route and ride in zwift for no reason other than getting it done but equally can do a specific sessions. Zwift at least keeps my attention, other platforms I’ve tried didnt as they were 100% focussed on numbers. Big advocate of getting any bike I’m riding ‘fitted’. Comfort, performance and because I can’t use a tape measure! It’s probably why I can manage hours indoors with no niggles. Found the Kickr climb made things a bit better as bike isn’t in a fixed position.
I think training on the indoor trainer can save some minutes to your ride if you have a lot of intersections and traffic lights you stop at. 60 min of pedaling might take you another 10 minutes to complete outdoors. Indoors is more efficient but often because of ventilation and lack of cooling power numbers may not be as high. In terms of structured intervals versus riding an online route. I've spent the last year doing a structured workout when I train indoors. Lately I'm working on longer threshold efforts. Using route like Alp D'Zwift is great for that. If I use indoor routes I use them like I would on the road to fit my purposes. Both work well.
Good video. Since I try to ride all year round here in upstate NY and only have one bike I prefer the Inside Ride E-Motion Rollers over a smart trainer. Had a smart trainer in the past and did Trainer Road mostly. Zero interest in Zwift. Too much like a video game and I'm not into the social thing indoors. Instead of constantly taking the rear wheel off I just put my bike on the trainer and do GCN videos anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour at a time. I just shift my bike like I would normally do outside. Works for me.
Brilliant video! Subscribed! For what its' worth? I find my improvements come from using indoor cycling for either zone 2 or V02 Max efforts. I use Zwift and the options to create your own workouts makes variation possible even at zone 2. The list of V02 workouts is endless. But I think regardless of weather (snow and ice are the exception) get outside twice a week.
12:00 absolutely bollocks mate. You can absolutely do outdoors sessions with zero coasting and constant power on the pedals. Ive done lots of zone 2 3-4 hour rides outdoors with less than 2 minutes of total coasting and the same wattage as indoors. People just don't know how to pace outdoors because they're just so used to erg mode. I stopped using erg an year ago and became very good at pacing zone 2.
It's very hilly in the Peak District, lots of 10%+ climbs and descents that I'm hanging off the brakes down. Similarly being 100kg, there are lots of climbs where I'm in zone 3/4 just to keep moving. Thanks for the comment
That guy is so much stronger than the last guy you had on
Number 999, only need one more Dan 😊
Thanks, but that's such a shame. We were giving away a free £10k bike for the 1000th subscriber 😉
Good episode gents.
I’ll consider myself weirder than I already thought now. Don’t mind a long route and ride in zwift for no reason other than getting it done but equally can do a specific sessions. Zwift at least keeps my attention, other platforms I’ve tried didnt as they were 100% focussed on numbers.
Big advocate of getting any bike I’m riding ‘fitted’. Comfort, performance and because I can’t use a tape measure! It’s probably why I can manage hours indoors with no niggles.
Found the Kickr climb made things a bit better as bike isn’t in a fixed position.
Kickr Climb is a good call. As well as rocker boards 👍
I think training on the indoor trainer can save some minutes to your ride if you have a lot of intersections and traffic lights you stop at. 60 min of pedaling might take you another 10 minutes to complete outdoors. Indoors is more efficient but often because of ventilation and lack of cooling power numbers may not be as high. In terms of structured intervals versus riding an online route. I've spent the last year doing a structured workout when I train indoors. Lately I'm working on longer threshold efforts. Using route like Alp D'Zwift is great for that. If I use indoor routes I use them like I would on the road to fit my purposes. Both work well.
It’s definitely more time efficient! 👌
Great video
Also Dan needs t hit 1000 subs
Thanks!
Good video. Since I try to ride all year round here in upstate NY and only have one bike I prefer the Inside Ride E-Motion Rollers over a smart trainer. Had a smart trainer in the past and did Trainer Road mostly. Zero interest in Zwift. Too much like a video game and I'm not into the social thing indoors. Instead of constantly taking the rear wheel off I just put my bike on the trainer and do GCN videos anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour at a time. I just shift my bike like I would normally do outside. Works for me.
I like to just raw dog TrainerRoad. Just numbers, bars, graphs and I. 😂
😂 hardcore 🤙 no music either right?
@ nothing. Just bar, graphs and I. The only music I get would be from the industrial fan blowing in my face 😂
haha this is grim!
Brilliant video! Subscribed! For what its' worth? I find my improvements come from using indoor cycling for either zone 2 or V02 Max efforts. I use Zwift and the options to create your own workouts makes variation possible even at zone 2. The list of V02 workouts is endless. But I think regardless of weather (snow and ice are the exception) get outside twice a week.
Thanks for watching (and subscribing!) Using Zwift as a "last resort" if the weather is too bad is the best way!
Simple trick: Just the remove the saddle
12:00 absolutely bollocks mate. You can absolutely do outdoors sessions with zero coasting and constant power on the pedals. Ive done lots of zone 2 3-4 hour rides outdoors with less than 2 minutes of total coasting and the same wattage as indoors. People just don't know how to pace outdoors because they're just so used to erg mode. I stopped using erg an year ago and became very good at pacing zone 2.
It's very hilly in the Peak District, lots of 10%+ climbs and descents that I'm hanging off the brakes down. Similarly being 100kg, there are lots of climbs where I'm in zone 3/4 just to keep moving. Thanks for the comment
We went one step further and moved to the canary Islands lol