Re: Trainer Questions

The trainer is a constant load.  In the real world we get little variations
that switch muscle groups just enough to spread out the effort a bit.
There are also things to think about, i.e., dogs, cars , debris, all of
which take our feeble minds off the pain of the moment.

All three variations which you mention are good.     You should also mix up
some work outs.   Warm-up, do 5 minutes at your normal training HR then one
minute at a sustainable hard effort sitting, 5 minutes at THR then  1 minute
hard out of the saddle.   Do 5 minutes at THR out of the saddle.  Do what
ever feels right to mix it up and get the work done.    Set up some
intervals just as you would in the pool or track.   Make you time and effort
pay off.

I'll hit the road tomorrow for 4 hours but know the time is coming when the
temp will get down into the 60's so I better think about setting up the CT.

Ken

<MJuric> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>    It's that time of year again were I end up spending most of my
> bike time on the trainer. This year, as is every year I end up with
> two issues.
>
> 1) Although my effort feels similar to road riding, based purely on
> percieved effort and leg fatigue over time, my HR is considerably
> lower during the rides at the same cadence. Cranking up the HR to more
> closely match what occurs in a real ride via resistance causes me to
> wear out early. I would assume this is caused by the trainer actually
> causing higher resistance than real world. I have a couple of options
> and was wonder what would be the better approach.
> a) Ride shorter at same HR and cadence
> b) ride long at higher cadence lower resistance same HR
> c) Ride long at lower HR, Same cadence
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> 2) Yea old Numb nuts. I've gone on 4-6 hour rides on the road without
> issue, yet 45 minutes on the trainer and apparently all blood flow is
> cut off. I'm on the same bike, by all measurements I can see, in the
> same position, yet the only time I have the problem is on the trainer.
>
> Anybody else run into this?
>
> ~Matt