Low cadence high resistance intervals on Trainer Road/Tacx Vortex?
10-30-16, 10:12 AM
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Low cadence high resistance intervals on Trainer Road/Tacx Vortex?
I posted this on "Training and Nutrition," but the traffic there is very light. I'm hoping someone here can tell me something.
Just bought a Tacx Vortex and want to recreate some workouts similar to what I did last year in a cycling gym. The workouts had some intervals that included low cadence (60rpm) and high resistance (up to FTP or even a little more, I think). This really helped my power in early season, but I stopped doing them when weather cleared and I rode exclusively outside. My power dropped a bit. This time I'm going to try to continue this kind of workout once a week even after winter.
But I am unfamiliar (so far) with software. (In my gym we used computrainer, which won't work on my new trainer.) I think that TrainerRoad will work, but I'm wondering whether workouts like this already exist on that platform, so I can just dial them in, or will I have to create them? And anything else you can tell me. If this is not the best place to find the answer, what is?
Just bought a Tacx Vortex and want to recreate some workouts similar to what I did last year in a cycling gym. The workouts had some intervals that included low cadence (60rpm) and high resistance (up to FTP or even a little more, I think). This really helped my power in early season, but I stopped doing them when weather cleared and I rode exclusively outside. My power dropped a bit. This time I'm going to try to continue this kind of workout once a week even after winter.
But I am unfamiliar (so far) with software. (In my gym we used computrainer, which won't work on my new trainer.) I think that TrainerRoad will work, but I'm wondering whether workouts like this already exist on that platform, so I can just dial them in, or will I have to create them? And anything else you can tell me. If this is not the best place to find the answer, what is?
10-30-16, 02:28 PM
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What hardware will you use -- PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, Android ...?
Is $12 per month or $99 per year an issue? If you exclusively want to do a few, specific, workouts, there's free training software on every prominent platform, such as Golden Cheetah (PC, Mac and Linux) and Hurts Ergo (iOS). With those apps you can easily create a few workout protocols and run them whenever you want.
Apps like TrainerRoad are more relevant if you want a guided, progressive program through a series of weekly workouts in base, build and specialty phases. If you're just going to pick a workout or two and run them time after time then you wouldn't be getting the value from TrainerRoad.
Is $12 per month or $99 per year an issue? If you exclusively want to do a few, specific, workouts, there's free training software on every prominent platform, such as Golden Cheetah (PC, Mac and Linux) and Hurts Ergo (iOS). With those apps you can easily create a few workout protocols and run them whenever you want.
Apps like TrainerRoad are more relevant if you want a guided, progressive program through a series of weekly workouts in base, build and specialty phases. If you're just going to pick a workout or two and run them time after time then you wouldn't be getting the value from TrainerRoad.
10-30-16, 05:58 PM
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Thanks. I didn't know that.
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