Anybody else into the short blast on the indoor kit? I've just finished my Sunday interval session on the bike (confirming that I am no Bradley Wiggins). I reckon 20 minutes has some advantages....
i) To train for aerobic endurance 20 minutes is about the shortest time you need for a level 3 threshold effort, sort of 90%.
ii) Trainers can be boring so longer efforts are better done outdoors.
iii) I can really mess myself up over 20 minutes - it's not too long to suffer horribly
and iv) (the daft reason
), the machines have 20 little columns of lights across the screen, so when you do interval sessions it really lends itself...you get a bar for each minute, so as you see the pattern get built up on the screen it's a lot easier to to complete each subsequent effort, even if you are in bits. If the default settting is 30 minutes you have to reset it instantly to 20 when you start or it buggers up the columns.
I know people think indoor kit is G.A.Y., but when you've found where your limits are you can achieve quite a lot in next to no time.
Am I alone?.........(It wouldn't be the first time )
i) To train for aerobic endurance 20 minutes is about the shortest time you need for a level 3 threshold effort, sort of 90%.
ii) Trainers can be boring so longer efforts are better done outdoors.
iii) I can really mess myself up over 20 minutes - it's not too long to suffer horribly
and iv) (the daft reason
), the machines have 20 little columns of lights across the screen, so when you do interval sessions it really lends itself...you get a bar for each minute, so as you see the pattern get built up on the screen it's a lot easier to to complete each subsequent effort, even if you are in bits. If the default settting is 30 minutes you have to reset it instantly to 20 when you start or it buggers up the columns.I know people think indoor kit is G.A.Y., but when you've found where your limits are you can achieve quite a lot in next to no time.
Am I alone?.........(It wouldn't be the first time
)
