winter turbo training
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Fans. Multiple fans.
Music: iPod or a stereo system with 250 Watts RMS per channel and a remote control.
Towel: And paper towels. Indoor snot rockets are rude.
Video: A laptop and any of Cube's or Collin's videos for starters. Sufferfest vids or old races on YouTube.
Rollers. Turbos are stupid boring. At least rollers force you to concentrate just a little and break up the monotony.
Hydrate? Meh...my longest sessions go for an hour. Anything longer and I can see why folks take assault rifles to their trainer. Now, if you're talking about a couple shots of Jack to numb the brain to stay on the trainer, I'm all for that!
Music: iPod or a stereo system with 250 Watts RMS per channel and a remote control.
Towel: And paper towels. Indoor snot rockets are rude.
Video: A laptop and any of Cube's or Collin's videos for starters. Sufferfest vids or old races on YouTube.
Rollers. Turbos are stupid boring. At least rollers force you to concentrate just a little and break up the monotony.
Hydrate? Meh...my longest sessions go for an hour. Anything longer and I can see why folks take assault rifles to their trainer. Now, if you're talking about a couple shots of Jack to numb the brain to stay on the trainer, I'm all for that!
Session plan and times. Nothing good happens when you don't have a plan.
Fans front and back (one directly on the disk for the magnetic resistance - otherwise the power wanders during the session as it heats up.)
Water - enough to quench the thirst. I have about 1,302,133 extra kcals stored midrift. If I bonk due to lack of glycogen then I'll flop around on the bike like a dead whale to burn some extra calories.
Old headphones and fast tempo metal for endurance stuff >20 minutes. Definitely no tunes for efforts less that 10 minutes. The voices in my head don't effect the effort like listening to music does. I can't do the in-ear headphones with all that sweat. The 80's-esque original small over the ear Sony headphones work best for me.
Power meter and computer somewhere that's easy to view.
Big towel draped over the bars and top tube - this means that the computer does go on the bar mount.
What would be ace would be a program to run on the computer that displays power meter data and also yells R Lee Ermey insults when you're not hitting the numbers... "You will learn by the numbers! I will teach you! Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and **** down your neck!"
Fans front and back (one directly on the disk for the magnetic resistance - otherwise the power wanders during the session as it heats up.)
Water - enough to quench the thirst. I have about 1,302,133 extra kcals stored midrift. If I bonk due to lack of glycogen then I'll flop around on the bike like a dead whale to burn some extra calories.
Old headphones and fast tempo metal for endurance stuff >20 minutes. Definitely no tunes for efforts less that 10 minutes. The voices in my head don't effect the effort like listening to music does. I can't do the in-ear headphones with all that sweat. The 80's-esque original small over the ear Sony headphones work best for me.
Power meter and computer somewhere that's easy to view.
Big towel draped over the bars and top tube - this means that the computer does go on the bar mount.
What would be ace would be a program to run on the computer that displays power meter data and also yells R Lee Ermey insults when you're not hitting the numbers... "You will learn by the numbers! I will teach you! Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and **** down your neck!"
I find 30 minutes is best for me. At 100% FTP in 30 degree weather and a fan I still sweat too much. (I prefer 95%.)
2 or 3 times a day - depending on how often I want to wash my clothes.
My MP3 player helps.
2 or 3 times a day - depending on how often I want to wash my clothes.
My MP3 player helps.
Suggestions: big fans, a big towel over the bars and top tube, don't fall off, push on the pedals hard.
