What's the average length of time you spend on your trainer sessions?
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What's the average length of time you spend on your trainer sessions?
Personally, I have been doing 35 to 60 minutes a day. My pace is (or feels similar to) what I use when on the road;
certainly enough to work up a good sweat Given the fact that this Fifty Plus group encompasses a broad range of fitness
this may be a pointless question to ask. Nonetheless it might be helpful to know what others do.
certainly enough to work up a good sweat Given the fact that this Fifty Plus group encompasses a broad range of fitness
this may be a pointless question to ask. Nonetheless it might be helpful to know what others do.
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I ride 3-4 times/week on the trainer but never more than 60 minutes at a time. If I do 60 one day, I'll do 36-40 the next. If I take a day off I try to get 60 in the next ride.
Definitely keeps a base level of fitness, which I notice out on the road come spring.
Definitely keeps a base level of fitness, which I notice out on the road come spring.
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I ride 79-90 minutes everyday and have since 4 days after I broke my right hip in a crash 12-07-15. Hip pinned 3 screws back on indoor trainer 4 days later. I ride about as hard as I can HR is 130-135. I am a runner first but hope I can start that back in a few weeks. I can walk fine bit of a limp but not pain at all. Frankly I feel in great cycling shape for the give same time on the road a trainer makes me work much harder.
Now the fear of returning to real road an crashes I slipped on ice my front wheel and came down right on hip.
Now the fear of returning to real road an crashes I slipped on ice my front wheel and came down right on hip.
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Between 30 and 90 minutes on my resistance rollers. 30' is only for zone 1 recovery rides, which I do year-round. I can't stay in zone 1 outdoors, so I have to use the rollers. My 60-90 minute rides are usually steady VT1 rides in winter, building base while it's cold and nasty outside. I also do pedaling drills like high cadence and one-legged pedaling. In spring when it's raining during the week I'll also do intervals in my rollers, mostly tempo work. Riding rollers perfectly takes my concentration, plus it hurts to hold a steady pace for a long time with no breaks, so I don't find it boring. Painful, sometimes, boring, not.
My rollers are in my shop which is at ambient outdoors temp unless I heat it a little. So I'm nice and cool in the winter, plus I use a 24" box fan. I like to feel like I'm riding outdoors and slightly underdressed. More watts to the rear wheel and fewer devoted to cooling. No time spent washing/maintaining the bike.
My rollers are in my shop which is at ambient outdoors temp unless I heat it a little. So I'm nice and cool in the winter, plus I use a 24" box fan. I like to feel like I'm riding outdoors and slightly underdressed. More watts to the rear wheel and fewer devoted to cooling. No time spent washing/maintaining the bike.
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I ride usually between 60-90 minutes on my smart trainer. What makes it possible for me is Zwift. Its like actually doing a ride with your friends, even though your riding with people from all over the world. The rides are actually enjoyable and I have actually kept in very good shape and avoided any weight gain for the first winter ever.
With zwift I get my heart rate up to 140-155 and keep it there because of the competition with other riders, got to keep up you know. It is really enjoyable for this old guy (56).
With zwift I get my heart rate up to 140-155 and keep it there because of the competition with other riders, got to keep up you know. It is really enjoyable for this old guy (56).
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All I can stand is 30-60 minutes. Spin classes are a little easier to tolerate, and I've ridden 2 hours in them -- a long time ago.
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When I was first getting back into biking a few years back, I worked my way up from 15 minutes to 60 minutes on the trainer. Once I got into decent-enough shape I decided I'd rather ride through the winter (northern California version of winter anyway) than deal with the misery and boredom of the trainer - haven't been back on it since.
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I hate trainers. They are boring and ruin your rear tire. The most I could ever stomach was 45 minutes, and I about went insane doing that. No, I can't ride in the house because my wife doesn't like me sweating all over the carpet.
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I regularly put in between 30 and 60 minutes on the stationary bike, usually at an average HR around 160+.
If you're gonna do it, do the heck out of it!
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Spin classes at work are free, so I take advantage of them, 60 minutes for each session. And they are hard sessions. Great work out!! Almost time here to break the bike out! all the snow from the big storm is just about gone! Flooding is the issue now. Nothing serious, but lots of standing water on the roads everywhere.
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My typical weekday trainer session is a carefully choreographed 30 or 45 minutes, with a specific goal in mind (intervals, recovery, technique, etc). On weekends if I can't get out on the road, I'll spend 2-3 hours on the trainer working on technique, leg strength and power. The one thing that helps maintain my sanity is that I'm not doing any one thing for more than 10-15 minutes at a time and usually much less than that. Just sitting there grinding away for x amount of time would drive me over the edge!
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I ride the trainer every other day (when it's too cold). Did 2:49 hours yesterday. Netflix movie (Interstellar) with Garmin watch feedback (cadence/speed/ and virtual power). My typical duration is 1:45. On the other days I do a double swim/run. I compete in tri's and running road races, so at 61 I need to keep up with the efforts to remain competitive. Works for me.
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Average is 1.7 hours, and the workouts vary from 1 hour to a little over 3 hours. All depends on whether its intervals or endurance. Some days those long rides can be really tough.
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I do 60 min. every other day while doing a GCN 60 min training video on you tube.
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I always do 1-hour... I have yet to break the 200 W-hr threshold though.
I always do 1-hour... I have yet to break the 200 W-hr threshold though.
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On average, I'll spend about 15-20 seconds looking at the trainer and pondering the mind numbing agony of riding it before my thoughts shift to what clothing I'll need to wear to ride in the current weather conditions or, alternately, what in my Netflix cue I want to sit in the recliner and watch.
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On average, I'll spend about 15-20 seconds looking at the trainer and pondering the mind numbing agony of riding it before my thoughts shift to what clothing I'll need to wear to ride in the current weather conditions or, alternately, what in my Netflix cue I want to watch.
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3 times a week.
2 of the sessions are 1 hour, the other is an endurance session, at 2 hours.
Get TrainerRoad. Very affordable. It provides workout programs based on your needs, and it adjusts each workout's intensity based on your current fitness level. (And the workouts aren't all as long as mine I just selected an intense program.)
2 of the sessions are 1 hour, the other is an endurance session, at 2 hours.
Get TrainerRoad. Very affordable. It provides workout programs based on your needs, and it adjusts each workout's intensity based on your current fitness level. (And the workouts aren't all as long as mine I just selected an intense program.)
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currently I ride the trainer twice a week (I also run on treadmill twice a week, and swim laps at ymca twice a week). On the trainer, I watch one of the 4 sufferfest videos I have (I try to add a new one every winter). The videos I have run 50-65 minutes long depending on the video.