Originally Posted by
Black wallnut
Most workouts worth doing that will give you benefits are tough mentally. The challenge is to find what motivates you to be mentally tough and do it. For me that is a combination of The Sufferfest and LBS group spinclass, not together. Much better to teach yourself to concentrate on keeping it hard. There is really not much benefit from riding a trainer at an easy effort IMHO, unless you are doing so for far in excess of an hour at a time.
I agree though some mental hurdles are harder than others. I'd rather go outside and do intervals until I bleed from the eyes than do more than 30 minutes of ANYTHING on a trainer. However I need to get my mind wrapped around the fact I'm going to do them and find a way to minimize the desire to stab myself with a fairly long bladed knife.