Originally Posted by kensuf
Dude, I'll be honest. I think I've gotten stronger in the past 3 months strictly because of my interval workouts on a fluid trainer than I did riding in the road.
The trainer allows me to have a well structured workout in a controlled environment. My trainer workouts look like this:
15 minutes warmup.
--- start cycle ---
5 minutes high cadence (110+, HR shoots up to 85-90%)
2 minutes recovery (hr @ 65%)
single leg drills (each leg, 45s to 1m, 90rpm cadence)
2 minutes recovery (hr @ 65%)
5 minutes heavy load (53x12, often standing, minimum cadence 60, HR shoots up to 85-90%)
2 minutes recovery (hr @ 65%)
--- end cycle ---
Repeat cycles until total time is 75 minutes
15 minute cool down
Don't do these things back to back. When you start doing interval workouts only do one every 3 days, then move to one every 2 days with a maximum of 2 a week.
ken
This sounds like a plan I can work with as well. I can get a trainer through my employeer for free, employee benefit type of thing, I'm just waiting on my points to be dumped in my account for my meritorious 20 yrs of service that rolls around on Mar 1
. I'm going to get a road bike soon, so my hybrid is going to become my trainer bike I can just leave setup in the trainer in the garage. I can get the Cyclops Magneto or the Fluid2, I research these before and I going for the Fluid2. I used one before and it had a more road like feel to me. Thanks for everyones input on this, it has been very helpful.
A wise person once said, The only bad question is one not asked. I think it was Tom on another thread.