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As above, really. I can get a laptop or a tablet in line of sight, and want to alleviate the boredom when I can't get out for an actual ride.
What do people watch for anything up to an hour or so?
You're doing it wrong 😉
sufferfest or GCN training vids
porn for the most part
Sky go boxsets.
Currently re watching season 1 of Boardwalk Empire
Music Vids on YouTube.
Last night was mostly Kid Rock, night before was Disturbed.
Read a book (kindles don't get soggy...)
I use GCN sessions on YouTube for my proper sessions. If I just want to turn my legs for a bit I like a panel game show (insert name here being the preferred choice this week).
Embrace the pain
legend - Member
porn for the most part
you're doing it right!
Orange is the new black , it endless, fairly amusing , not crucial if I miss a little dialogue
Sufferfest - if you have time to take in a tv prog you are spending waaay longer on there than I could
you're doing it right!
Doesn't feel that way when I fall off
I used to watch my life slipping slowly away.
Sold the turbo and go running/(proper) riding instead.
Old mountain bike films or box sets occasionally music vids
Not a turbo but on the cross trainer I like to watch all the Anthill (and others) Mountain Bike films. By and large they're full of dusty trails and sunsets etc - it reminds me why I'm pounding away for an hour on the bloody thing at 6pm on a Tuesday in Jan, so when it's 6pm on a Tuesday in June I'm out riding and enjoying it as much as I can be and not blowing out my arse because I spent the dark months on my arse eating cakes.
Isn't it all about Zwift now?
I used to watch my life slipping slowly away.Sold the turbo and go running/(proper) riding instead.
or swimming.
this, x1000000.
^ yep. To be honest, someone mentioned eating cake. I'd much rather eat cake for 6 months of the year than spend 6 months on a turbo but then I'm no olympic athlete and neither are any of the people I normally ride with so if we're all blowing out our arses come the sunshine, at least we're all doing it together (and still having a laugh).
I just go out for a bike ride. Saw two deer and a fox kast night
I used to watch Box Sets, got through several series of 24 and all of Battlestar Galactica on the Turbo...
Couldn't contemplate an hour on the turbo without ZWIFT. The races and mass group rides are an easy way to push yourself for an hour. Can even heckle others with the text system. Very active Facebook community too, so you can bitch about all the people you think are cheating.
Zwift and the radio for me
Do people not ride their bikes outdoors anymore?
The races and mass group rides are an easy way to push yourself for an hour. Can even heckle others with the text system.
Are these sorts of people even classed as cyclists?
davidtaylforth - Member
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At trail centres, when it's dry, obvs.
Tie a pork pie to my dogs tail and watch her spin around.
That or the stuff my wife bans such as sci fi.
I watch my herculean thighs pumping like Victorian beam engines and generating the kind of power that can only otherwise be found in supernovae.
New to TT - only 4 rides in.
Quite possibly the dullest thing ever - an hour and I'm ready to cry.
Anything to engage the mind will be an improvement.
Proper actual ride tomorrow morning hopefully 🙂
Sufferfest or listen to radio, very short of time so beasting myself on turbo for 45mins/an hour is most effective use of time (and about as much as I can stand before getting very bored)
Faff of sorting kit, riding, cleaning stuff of a night ride would mean about 25mins moving time, or getting home too late to wind down & get a decent night sleep, which would be Kack in comparison 😉
A Sufferfest video 😆
Couldn't contemplate an hour on the turbo without ZWIFT. The races and mass group rides are an easy way to push yourself for an hour. Can even heckle others with the text system. Very active Facebook community too, so you can bitch about all the people you think are cheating.
Virtual bike riding complete with virtual heckling with virtual friends.
A little piece of me just died finding out that was a "thing".
This.
Best training video I've found and I use it every time
Pimpernel Smith on Film4 the other day.
Usually something with subtitles, so I can tell what gwan.
i sold mine and go swimming instead 🙂
Zwift is excellent if you have to spend time on the turbo. Very engaging and lots of options including work outs, group rides, races, chain gangs
Weather was poor last Sunday and did 100km in just under 3 hours with it
Really worth giving it a try IMO
Spin Class instead. Watch the numbers and power output, then again the lights are out so you can;t see anything else anyway.
iainc - Member
i sold mine and go swimming instead
Isn't swimming just another form of excercise where you don't go anywhere, but you also can't even watch the tv?
Isn't swimming just another form of excercise where you don't go anywhere, but you also can't even watch the tv?
🙂 when you put it that way, yes !
No further questions
Mostly netflix and amazon instant video. So far this winter, 4 series of 24, a series of Jennifer Jones, series of Daredevil, and a few films.
Do people not ride their bikes outdoors anymore?
I don't think the two activities are mutually exclusive. I do both. Obviously not at the same time (though I guess I could turbo on the patio.)
i sold mine and go swimming instead
I'm sure there is a forum somewhere where people are being berated for swimming in a pool instead of winter open water.
Do people not ride their bikes outdoors anymore?I don't think the two activities are mutually exclusive. I do both.
+1.
The turbo is good if i'm at home looking after this kids.
Tonight is a good example - wife out for eve, kids will be in bed by 8.30 - I can get in 45mins - 1hr of quality riding (quality from a leg/cardio point of view) whilst they are asleep.
However, providing the weather isn't too horrific, i'll do a couple of hours outside on Sunday morning.
youtube cyclocross vids or red bull mtb vids, though recently the red bull vids keep crashing. I barely register wahts happening to be honest once I'm out of warm up.
Wont be long now till its light enoguh to mean I'll be using the turbo a lot less. Can't bloody wait!
I generally watch the array of floaters and stars that appear, or the back of my eyelids. That and visualisations of running on the track as that's how i judge my efforts.
Sufferfest or trailtrainer.
Either way sometimes i can't see the screen
Box sets mostly. Not so much films, they tend to demand more attention, tv's generally designed to be a bit less immersive/involving/whatever, more backgroundy. it's not suitable for all routines but there's lots of ways to turbo- I don't care at all about doing it the "best" way because the best way is a routine I'll actually do.
I watch films of people swimming
I watched Twin Peaks last year, over rated and not as I remembered it. "How's Annie".... ❓
I finally caught up with season 1 of The Wire last year on the turbo, but struggling with season 2. Too much to concentrate on so I am missing bits. Must find something less taxing. In his book, Geraint Thomas recommends nothing nuanced or layered so no Wire or Game of Thrones. He's right
I mix up Sufferfest and Trainerroad, but trying to complete Sweet Spot base in the latter so using it more. I find music concert films work well, especially when doing FTP tests.
Do the GCN videos have recommended cadence and effort levels? That is the great thing with Trainerroad, giving you a target to aim at.
Zwift ..of course.
nothing nuanced or layered
24's been good for this, fairly fast paced, plenty of action, not too complicated a plot, not too much dialogue. And when one episode finishes the next one starts so don't need to think about what to watch next. No chance I'd be able to follow The Wire on the turbo!
Turbo ought to be a painful, short sharp shock of interval training. When I did that sort of thing I barely saw even the film part of the Sufferfest vids.
Turbo ought to be a painful, short sharp shock of interval training.
Why?
Turbo ought to be a painful, short sharp shock of interval training. When I did that sort of thing I barely saw even the film part of the Sufferfest vids.
+1 If you manage to actually properly watch stuff or read you are utterly wasting your time. Turbo for me would rarely if ever go over an hour and would be essentially pyramid intervals or 2x20 blocks.
I bought one then after a few uses I put a softer winter tyre on the bike and haven't wanted to wear it out going nowhere so at the moment it's not getting used. I need to get a spare wheel and training tyre but I'm also running to work 3 times a week which is a round trip of 11-12K, doing a Park Run on Saturdays and a club run on the bike on Sundays so I don't really feel the need for anymore exercise.
I find running in crap weather preferable to riding in it, in fact I actually find it enjoyable. I think the big thing for me is no matter how cold or wet it is your always generating enough heat to keep warm.
If you manage to actually properly watch stuff or read you are utterly wasting your time.
😀
I do a lot of long z2/z3/tempo work on the turbo (I'd rather do it on the road, and I think it's more beneficial on the road, but that's not always possible.) It's not so intense that I can't watch something on the telly that isn't too demanding. I'd like to think I'm not totally wasting my time 😉
(I do sort of agree on the reading though.)
not been on the turbo for a year or so but i found making a playlist on iTunes really useful. strong rhythmic 'motorik' stuff...
some music worked amazingly well - simple headphone mind by stereolab/nurse with wound was really great (and lasts 30 mins), the miles davis experiment wasnt so good...
definitely never had the frame of mind to read or watch anything though.
Interval stuff I generally just listen to music, surf on here during the rest periods. Longer sessions I've been trying out Amazon prime. Man in high tower (seems odd not sure I get where it is going...)
I too turbo because I have maybe 1.5hrs in an evening tops to get a decent session in between kiddies bedtime and eating food.
Whatever takes your fancy really. I've watched some BBC wildlife stuff and a bit of Sherlock recently. Of course music and podcasts can also work well.
You don't have to be going flat out, my treadmill running is all steady miles rather than intervals - would probably overheat if I was going hard. Plus I'd be less likely to do it in the first place.
Are there any vids of mtb rides where you can "join in" like the plethora of road cycling ones which bore me to death? I do find the turbo hard work but watching guys road ride just finishes me off.
Peoples bottoms on zwift.
Zwift is good. Sufferfest with trainer road and a power meter is even better.
Most of the time when I just want to maintain what little fitness I have I use my Tacx flow with the videos and gps rides. Connecting the brake changes restiance with gradient, plus it'll take a reading from my power meter for the wattage. Times around my local routes are pretty accurate.
On sunday I'll be tackling Alp duez...
not particularly focused like the trainer road workouts, but less likely to make me vomit.