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Shut up and take my money Seriously, I love to cycle but have a really hard time pounding away on the trainer. This would make the winter experience much more

Shut up and take my money Seriously, I love to cycle but have a really hard time pounding away on the trainer. This would make the winter experience much more bearable

zimpenfish 11y ago
Have you tried something like the Sufferfest videos? They certainly alleviated boredom when I was doing trainer work. http://thesufferfest.com/ http://thesufferfest.com/
- cuu508 11y ago
  +1 for Sufferfest videos. Spinning at low intensities gets boring and requires lots of willpower. I've watched movies, tv shows, played PC games with xbox controller, listened to audiobooks, watched TdF stages, watched XC world cup events from redbull.tv, watched twitch, watched youtube shows etc. etc. The trick that works for me is–raise the intensity and there's no time to get bored. You're focused on just getting through the interval. And workouts can be only 1-1.5 hour long, because you're working harder. Sufferfest videos are all pretty hardcore. Through the winter I normally use trainerroad.com and their base training plans, and save Sufferfest videos for special occassions like 20-minute FTP tests ;-)
  - davidw 11y ago
    Are those videos that much better than, say, a Youtube video of the Ronde van Vlaanderen or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo7Z38fYEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo7Z38fYEA I have a hamster wheel (err...indoor trainer) arriving tomorrow, and am hoping to get the most out of it by not getting completely and totally bored out of my skull with it. Zwift sounds like one option. Don't want to spend a ton, though...
    - nl 11y ago
      Yes, Sufferfest are better. They are pretty structured, and have enough humor to make the suffering somewhat bearable. Trainer workouts are boring enough you want to keep them short and hard. I think you can get (some of?) the Sufferfest videos free if you have a premium Strava account.
GFischer 11y ago
AR glasses like HoloLens or whatever Google's building look like a good use case for that (you need your hands free fro many excercises). I wonder if Google Glasses are usable while on a trainer or a treadmill.
didgeoridoo 11y ago
Check out Zwift. Not "VR", but the gamified/MMO elements make it really motivating. Not much can get me up at 6am anymore, but when I'm supposed to meet my friend for a virtual ride, I can usually haul my ass out of bed and hop on the bike.
- radiorental 11y ago
  Thank you very much for putting me onto this.

Shut up and take my money Seriously, I love to cycle but have a really hard time pounding away on the trainer. This would make the winter experience much more bearable

zimpenfish 11y ago

Have you tried something like the Sufferfest videos? They certainly alleviated boredom when I was doing trainer work. http://thesufferfest.com/ http://thesufferfest.com/

cuu508 11y ago
+1 for Sufferfest videos. Spinning at low intensities gets boring and requires lots of willpower. I've watched movies, tv shows, played PC games with xbox controller, listened to audiobooks, watched TdF stages, watched XC world cup events from redbull.tv, watched twitch, watched youtube shows etc. etc. The trick that works for me is–raise the intensity and there's no time to get bored. You're focused on just getting through the interval. And workouts can be only 1-1.5 hour long, because you're working harder. Sufferfest videos are all pretty hardcore. Through the winter I normally use trainerroad.com and their base training plans, and save Sufferfest videos for special occassions like 20-minute FTP tests ;-)
- davidw 11y ago
  Are those videos that much better than, say, a Youtube video of the Ronde van Vlaanderen or something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo7Z38fYEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmo7Z38fYEA I have a hamster wheel (err...indoor trainer) arriving tomorrow, and am hoping to get the most out of it by not getting completely and totally bored out of my skull with it. Zwift sounds like one option. Don't want to spend a ton, though...
  - nl 11y ago
    Yes, Sufferfest are better. They are pretty structured, and have enough humor to make the suffering somewhat bearable. Trainer workouts are boring enough you want to keep them short and hard. I think you can get (some of?) the Sufferfest videos free if you have a premium Strava account.

GFischer 11y ago

AR glasses like HoloLens or whatever Google's building look like a good use case for that (you need your hands free fro many excercises). I wonder if Google Glasses are usable while on a trainer or a treadmill.

didgeoridoo 11y ago

Check out Zwift. Not "VR", but the gamified/MMO elements make it really motivating. Not much can get me up at 6am anymore, but when I'm supposed to meet my friend for a virtual ride, I can usually haul my ass out of bed and hop on the bike.

radiorental 11y ago
Thank you very much for putting me onto this.