You may know that feeling when you get home after a long day at work: You need to get on your trainer and do a good session, but you’re exhausted. You get on your trainer anyway and your training session ends up being less than effective, you don’t quite push yourself as hard as you could and you find yourself spinning more than you should be.
Increasing Motivation and Overcoming Boredom
It’s a pretty common problem with indoor training. Even when you have the motivation and focus it can still be hard to maintain concentration over a 60 or 90 minute session.
The solution to this – and yes, there is a solution – is to use training videos. There are plenty of turbo trainer videos that allow you to either simulate cycling on famous cycle routes around the world, or offer you a studio training session with motivation and guidance.
A good video will not only provide you with distraction from the fact that you are indoors but will also give you a varied training session with built in warm ups, climbs, descents, intervals and everything else you need for a good workout.
The Different Types Of Bike Training Videos
There are a few different formats of cycling video. You will probably have seen the ones that are taken from a classic race with music overlays and sometimes instructions and motivational comments. You will also find videos which are filmed specifically for the purpose of training, where a group of riders will ride a specific route and which includes music and overlays/instructions. A third type of training video is a studio based concept with instructors who tell you what you should be doing.
You can get training videos as DVDs, however more and more providers are providing downloadable videos which means you can get new videos almost instantly from around the world.
Find the perfect training video and you will be able to transform your indoor training sessions from hard slogs to something almost akin to good fun. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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