It’s a common conundrum when deciding on what to choose as your indoor training weapon of choice for the winter months. We’ve had a number of emails asking for advice on what trainers to use and which will give the best bang for your buck. Should you buy a turbo trainer? Or an exercise type bike? It’s important to note here, we are a fully independent studio and have no ties to any company or
“I hated it, I’m never doing another one” Is not uncommon to hear when the three letters F.T.P are mentioned. It has this reputation of being: Brutally hard Unrewarding (unless you have a really good day) Really hard Unproductive as you have to rest beforehand and take time to recover afterwards And did I mention hard? But first… What is FTP? In a nutshell, ride your bike for as hard as you can for
For the eager eyed among you, you may have seen me (Coach Ant) take on the new version of the FTP test that our software is utilising. (Check out the video here) I’ll give you a quick breakdown. The old protocol consisted of warming up, then riding for 20 minutes. The aim of which was to ride the best average power possible for that amount of time. The test was frankly hard,
We’ve all heard the old adage of ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ and that might be true in the case of a dictator but when it comes to training on a bike there is no training metric more reliable than that of power. So that might beg the question: What is power in the context of cycling? To answer this we need a little bit of science! Power is the time derivative
You’ve probably been going through similar emotions to us here in the studio. I want to get out and ride, but the weather just isn’t that appealing. Obviously, when we are being time efficient, riding indoors during the week is perfect to fit around family commitments, work and social life. But when it comes to the weekend, we still want to get out and ride, feel that wind in our faces and experience that feeling