Originally Posted by
Wreader
I can't get out on the bike every day because of my work, so I have a good spin bike that I can ride on the days that I can't ride outside. When riding my bike, I feel good and don't have any hurts. On the spin bike, I feel fine, but the next day, my lower back hurts A LOT. I re-adjusted the seat and handlebars today and think I might have had the seat too high, so we'll see if this helps.
In the meantime, how can you translate miles spinning to miles on a bike on the road? It takes me about as long to ride a mile on the spinner as it does on a bike, and I can dial up hills on the spinner, like on the bike. Is it reasonable to claim the miles that the odometer on the spinner tells me I am doing? Or is there a convention for translating one to the other?
Thanks,
There are 5 schools of thought.
1) The wheel goes around the same distance, so count it as equivalent.
2) The wheel goes around but it counts for more or less, nobody is quite sure, by how much
3) Spinner miles do not count for anything only road miles count.
4) A combination, it's equivalent for maintenance purposes, but for more or less, nobody is quite sure as a workout.
5) It's equivalent for maintenance purposes, but for a workout, it's only intent is to keep the legs and body from turning into Jello over the off season.
I track distance, my distance tracker application has a trainer flag, so I know how much is on which bike, and how much of that is on the trainer, most of the road bike riding this year, has been on the trainer... Most people who think trainer distance should not count, live in places where you can ride on the road all year.