The best prompt on the screen during the whole climbing-fest:
"CONTADOR ATTACKS!!! KICK HIS @SS!!!!!!!!!"
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The best prompt on the screen during the whole climbing-fest:
"CONTADOR ATTACKS!!! KICK HIS @SS!!!!!!!!!"
Temp is in the 20's here with a little snow on the ground. So yesterday I put in Global Ride's Maui Rollers, turned on the music, turned off spoken coaching and just rolled along for 55 minutes doing lots of climbing with beautiful scenery. :)
I did an hour yesterday, accompanied by YouTube episodes of TV shows. It was nice having breaks to load the videos.
It might be worthwhile to get Netflix Instant... lots of TV shows/episodes to choose from. You'll never be bored!
58 minutes of Hillacious today.
Veronica
This is great, and I actually replaced my insanely-expensive-yet-no-time-to-watch-cable with streaming Netflix to my television. It works well and is a LOT less expensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reesha
1 hour spinning class tonight.
15 minutes on the trainer, with just music. (I had fun trying to sing along with the Lion King songs I'd put on that playlist!) I need to remember to do this when I get home (after I've had a snack, of course!), since that way the heating is OFF.
Last night took more out of me than I thought. I didn't feel too bad, but I lay down last night and was hit by a wave of tiredness. My side is feeling better, but I don't want to push it with hard gears just yet.
A little over 20 minutes this morning doing "fat burner" intervals (2 minutes at max effort, 2 minutes off, repeat...) with the tv flipping between 2 different music channels. This week is a holiday killer of eating out for various biz functions - lunch AND dinner out yesterday, lunch and dinner again tomorrow, office shindig Friday.... Uffda. I need lots of fat burner this week.
Hey Owlie - you made it an hour on the trainer! Good for you!
Finally got to a computrainer class last night - nothing indoors last week! I did do 65 miles outside on Saturday, though. :)
This is such a tough time of year with holiday functions, etc. Thanks for the extra motivation.
No riding today, inside or outside. I figure my body needs to rest today so am allowing it to do so - just need to get the sedation out of my system. I will see how things feel tomorrow, but will either do the trainer or the ArcTrainer at my fitness club.
I'm taking the night off too. I feel terrible for no adequately explained reason.
Took it really easy last night (felt like crap). 35 minutes of hard intervals tonight.
6/6 done.
Great group trainer ride at LBS tonight (1.5 hours). Hoping to get an outside ride in later in the week.
I signed up today and would like to entry my rides thus far for Dec. How do I enter each individual day?
It's not set up for individual days, just tally your total so far.
Next month maybe I'll make it more sophisticated. :D
Veronica
Having this challenge is much better than just riding on a trainer without one. It helps to keep me on track during this crazy hectic busy time plus I LOVE seeing the goal percentage go up after an entry :D
I use spreadsheets for logging my mileage and time for outdoor riding but never thought about setting a specific target for the trainer. This is fun!
I have a much more complicated spreadsheet that I use to track my daily training. I have goals every month for running, swimming, biking - indoor and out, yoga and working with my trainer. I have never gotten 100% of my goal for all of those in a month. :rolleyes:
But a goal should be a bit of a stretch for you. :p That's what I tell my students anyway!
Veronica
You can enter a comment on your total, if you want to track day by day. It won't tally, but you can see it....Quote:
Originally Posted by makbike
I have an "old-fashioned" non-computer, hand-written bike log that I use when I get serious about my training each year. I usually start it in March and go to the AIDs ride in July. I log bike time, strength and core conditioning and yoga. In addition to being able to look back at prior years and see what worked well, and what did not, it forces me to be disciplined because I don't want to put a big 0 in for the day. This TE challenge is likewise very helpful in getting me motivated to put in the time on the trainer when I would rather just sleep in! Thanks again for doing this!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
I decided to get slowly back to my usual exercise after the cervical spine injections yesterday. I skipped my usual Wed. evening weights, but put in 35 minutes on the trainer. Hope to put in a full spinning class tomorrow night :)
I woke up at 4am for no good reason today. Skipping today, will do 1:30 (split up--morning and then when I get home in the evening) tomorrow. Right now I'm going to eat dinner and pass out!
My cycling coach mixes up the motivation quite a bit. Some days we have scenic cycling videos (where it's shot from the rider's perspective, so you rarely/never see a bike, just the road and scenery ahead) which he sets to music at whatever cadences we are working at for the day. Other times we use Robbie Ventura videos to simulate races, sprints, pacelining, etc. On time trial days, we usually get treated to footage of Lance, or even better, Fabian Cancellara, again set to music by the coach to keep us pedaling at certain cadences. There are days with no video at all, where it's just music and drills, but that's OK too. All in all, a great combination. Definitely never boring!
I've tried to sit on the trainer in my garage and I simply can not motivate myself to do it for long. Boooooring, and more importantly, I just don't push myself the same way I do in class.
I totally heard that lol. Even as an instructor I can usually push it just a little bit more when someone else is mixing up the fun.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas
Have had a cold all week, finally feel like I am getting the upper hand but not ready for spin class yet.
Hour-long cycling class at 6am today. Focus was on cadence drills today, with most of the work done at 100 and 105 rpm. When I first started working with this coach (15 months ago), my natual cadence was ~ 80rpm. Now I am closer to 95rpm. So, these drills DEFINITELY work!
Starting spinning classes today .....yay!! :)
It would be great if you or someone described some of those cadence drills. I have slowly managed to increase my cadence from ~60-70 or so to about 80 (with some bursts of 90-100+), mostly through consistent riding, but also with some obsessing about my cadence during rides. Using the trainer (as much as I hate it) seems to have helped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas
Re a previous comment about the intensity of the workouts, for me the trainer has been a good opportunity to push really hard (to the point of getting sick) because I'm in the comfort of my place. I can collapse comfortably on my floor, if need be. :D
8/8 done.
Have been doing my own intervals - and my average HR/mileage comparisons tell me I'm working harder than some of the ECT's:rolleyes::rolleyes: Yesterday was easy. Today was not. 45 minutes.
Sure!Quote:
Originally Posted by pll
So, this morning, after a warmup, we had 3 main worksets.
1st workset, 20 minutes:
1 minute pedalling at 105rpm, at mid zone 2 intensity (around 80-85% of threshold power)
1 minute at 85rpm. No adjustment to the tension knob, just a reduction in rpm. Yields ~ a mid-zone 1 intensity effort (60-65% of threshold power)
REPEAT 10 times to get to 20 minutes
2nd workset, 13 minutes:
5 minutes at 100rpm, varying zone intensity via the tension knob only, as follows:
1 minute at mid zone 3 (100% of threshold power)
1 minute at low zone 2 (75% of threshold power)
1 minute at high zone 3 (105% of threshold)
1 minute at low zone 2 (75% of threshold power)
1 minute at mid zone 3 (100% of threshold power)
3 minutes of active recovery in mid zone 1 (60-65% of threshold power) at rider's preferred cadence
5 minutes at 100rpm, varying zone intensity via the tension knob only, as follows:
1 minute at high zone 3 (105% of threshold)
1 minute at low zone 2 (75% of threshold power)
1 minute at mid zone 3 (100% of threshold power)
1 minute at low zone 2 (75% of threshold power)
1 minute at high zone 3 (105% of threshold)
3rd workset, 6 minutes:
1 minute pedalling at 105rpm, at mid zone 2 intensity (around 80-85% of threshold power)
1 minutes at 85rpm. No adjustment to the tension knob, just a reduction in rpm. Yields ~ a mid-zone 1 intensity effort (60-65% of threshold power)
REPEAT 3 times to get to 6 minutes
Cooldown.
There was also a few minutes Z1 recovery between each workset, for a total of an hour-long workout.
We ride on Cyclops stationary bikes equipped with power meters. We've all been tested, so that we know what our threshold power is, and what all of our intensity zones are. Each of us has a laminated card on our bikes, so that we don't have to do math or remember our zones. :-)
These classes are coached, and he's excellent. He continually gives us cues, reminds us where we are supposed to be, encourages us, corrects our form, etc.
Of course, a workout like this is totally tranlatable to what you do at home, even if you don't have a power meter. You can go by perceived exertion, heartrate, etc.
Hope this helps!
Susan
Thanks! I will have to print that tomorrow and try it.
1 hour on the spinning bike tonight and I felt great! I was pretty much able to do everything in class at close to my old intensity, the injections are working :D
I'm so proud of myself for keeping up so far. I'm only 40 minutes off my 1 hour a day goal, but a few outdoor rides should really take care of that!
Ugh hit a snag! I was doing well and then both kids got walking pneumonia so haven't done anything since Monday!
Oh, it's okay. You have an excuse. I don't really have one, and I haven't done anything since Monday either. I got half an hour in today, despite my intention to get up early.Quote:
Originally Posted by jyyanks
My side is still bugging me, so I haven't been able to do intervals or anything other than low-resistance. Any day now, muscle...:rolleyes:
I've finally found something that will hold my attention--documentaries!
Yesterday I survived my first spinning class after yearsss..... woohoo...I did way better thatn I thought. :)
Yayyyyyyy! Where did you go? It wasn't the Westview Healthplex by any chance was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Giulianna23
Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
NO...I went to the Avon LA Fitness Gym ...I started going there about a week ago.
I was just curious, we had a new woman in spinning class last night who did very well, especially for someone who said she had never been in spinning class before. I thought it might be you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Giulianna23
You know, I did two hours while watching Hellboy, a fast pased action flick and it wasn't even close to as good as the POV footage used in the Sufferfest videos. I guess it really makes me feel like I am going somewhere. I even lean into the curves a little bit with my body (or so my partner tells me lol!).Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
I should try documentaries, though. Variety will be critical!
It works because I'm a nerd. It doesn't take much to get me to watch a documentary (that isn't on the History Channel).Quote:
Originally Posted by Reesha
I will warn you, however, that watching one about the 1918 flu pandemic is not a good idea. It is especially not a good idea when this one contains an interview with someone who lost both parents and her brother within 3 days. :(