Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve just finished a 4:1 minute interval workout on my Turbo Trainer. I have promised to people that I’d post some of my workouts here, but this is one I’ve mentioned before in a previous post. As you would expect, the 4:1 ratio is 4 minutes ‘easy’ at 100 Watts and then 1 minute of...
My Tacx Flow Turbo Trainer has a built in calibration device allowing it to ensure that workouts you do on it are consistent despite changes to things such as tyre pressure, contact pressure, bike you use etc. Any change to such things would make a difference to the efficiency and could therefore adjust the effort...
I’ve just done another of my 1 minute interval sessions on the turbo trainer and I think I’m finding my limit. The session involves a 10 minute warm up and then 7 repetitions of: 1 minute hard 1 minute recovery Followed by a warm down. The first time I did it I did the hard...
One of the nice things about using a Turbo Trainer for cycling training is that your workouts are repeatable without issues such as the weather / terrain making too much difference to your performance. This means that it is a useful tool for tracking your progress as you can repeat a workout exactly and see...
Just like many other people up and down the country I ate far too much over the past few days and did far too little exercise. In total I put on half a stone which is quite an achievement in itself!. Now its time to do something about that. Although my arm aches from playing...
I don’t seem to have stopped for the past few days, so its now time to start catching up with the blog posts containing details of what we’ve been up to. It all started on Wednesday for me. Up nice and early and did the usual housework, washing up, laundry, cleaning and vacuuming whilst Anna...
Don’t worry, I don’t intend to post these everyday as I’m sure you’ll get bored of them soon – if not already. However, I’m enjpying doing them and I like the heart rate graphs I produce in a strange, ‘heart-rate artwork’ kind of way. Of course, if you enjoy these posts or are trying to...
Yes, another turbo trainer post as I’m enjoying my work-outs on it at the moment. I thought I would try another 1 minute interval session today. So I did exactly the same session as I did on Saturday, but this time increased the wattage on the hard efforts from 320 Watts to 340 Watts. Surprisingly...
I’m feeling a little fitter at last so thought I would have a go at a proper interval session on the turbo trainer this morning. I had some sample workouts from Jon following my various fitness tests and lab rat sessions at the Sports and Exercise Science Department in the University so had something to...
<a HREF=”http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F5fde7bfe-d5a3-42cf-a80c-c28da3ff4e04&Operation=NoScript” mce_HREF=”http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Falslikklworls%2F8010%2F5fde7bfe-d5a3-42cf-a80c-c28da3ff4e04&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.co.uk Widgets</a> I got around to buying a turbo trainer and my new Tacx T1680 Flow Turbo Trainer arrived the other day. A nice quick delivery as usual but I was out riding in the real world so didn’t get to play with it until about 10pm. Just enough time to set it...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
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