I thought it was just another video that wasn’t available for the Interactive Real Course Video (IRCV), so I was getting it from another company. If you read the First Impression post, you probably noticed that I wasn’t thrilled with the product… 54 minutes later, I loved it! Here is the thing, when I first bought the Video, I had a complete different idea in my mind. Today I had planned a Brick workout (1 hour bike, 20 minutes run), using the same video. Yesterday I rode the Muskoka Half Video from ErgVideo for 6 minutes and posted my First Impression. “ It’s not about WHERE you ride, it’s about HOW HARD you ride“ Oh, yea, Beatriz tried it too and she is still swearing at me, since I was beside her during her whole test telling her that she could go faster! She was dead at the end too… and not very happy with me either! 🙂
Anyhow, it is a good experience to next time, when I’ll try to a bit easier in the beginning and harder at the end. I started at an average of 250 to 260 Watts, but unfortunately at last few minutes, I fell to 240 Watts, and trust me, I tried to go harder. I’ll use the FTP to customize my bike training, since I’m using Power Zones, instead of Heart Rate Zones:īy the way, if you give your best (as I did), you basically want to die at the end. Every 4 weeks, I will test myself again and hopefully see some improvements. I find that performing a consistent warmup and test will give me a good baseline. Well, when I looked at the table from Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan (Training and Racing with a Power Meter), I’m classified at Cat 5, just above Untrained Individual! 😦Īnyhow, what I like about the threshold test, is the consistence that it will provide me.
#Used computrainer software#
The video is just to “inspire” you, the effort/grade does NOT change with the grade of the video or effort of the rider.Īt the end of the time trial, the software produces the following report (please don’t laugh out loud regarding my FTP, I’m pretty disappointed myself!): So you can actually shift gears to go harder. The faster you go, the more power you generate. This time, it is up to you to determine the power. It is performed in CRS mode, with a constant 2% grade.
#Used computrainer trial#
#Used computrainer series#
The video has a series of intervals, including a 5 minutes at threshold power and a few other intervals. Then there is another video for the actual test: It will be used only to determine how hard the warmup session will be. What is it? Basically you fill out your best guess for FTP (Functional Threshold Power) or the value from your last test. Last week I got a few more videos from Ergvideo, including the Threshold Test Video, which both, my wife and I used over the weekend.
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