Gym advice needed

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  • Doom
    Doom Posts: 133
    Ric_Stern/RST wrote:
    There's a variety of reasonable to good trainers depending on what you want to pay, and what you want the turbo to do.

    No probs with the advice. Glad to help if i can.

    Ric

    Ric do you think spinning classes are beneficial or rather get a turbo for specific goals and training?
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  • nasahapley
    nasahapley Posts: 717
    Nickodemus wrote:

    ...but i'd have to say that for cycling you can't beat cycling, but if you really can't get out on the bike or on the turbo and you head for the gym I'd definitely go for the ergo over running or x-trainer any day. It'll work similar muscles to the bike, keep the leg speed up, and will give your lungs a bloody good going over!

    I'll second that; I rowed at uni and then for a club for a few years before concentrating on cycling for pretty much the same reasons as Nickodemus. I haven't been cycling long but can knock out a (reasonably flat) solo century in 5 hours and have done the Fred Whitton route in under 7 1/4 hours. I think a lot of cyclists may be put off using ergos because they think it will build 'unnecessary' upper body bulk, but this ain't the case if used properly.

    I thought I'd never get on an ergo again after I packed in rowing, but am seriously thinking of getting one to use over the winter!
  • Nickodemus
    Nickodemus Posts: 94
    nasahapley wrote:
    Nickodemus wrote:

    ...but i'd have to say that for cycling you can't beat cycling, but if you really can't get out on the bike or on the turbo and you head for the gym I'd definitely go for the ergo over running or x-trainer any day. It'll work similar muscles to the bike, keep the leg speed up, and will give your lungs a bloody good going over!

    I'll second that; I rowed at uni and then for a club for a few years before concentrating on cycling for pretty much the same reasons as Nickodemus. I haven't been cycling long but can knock out a (reasonably flat) solo century in 5 hours and have done the Fred Whitton route in under 7 1/4 hours. I think a lot of cyclists may be put off using ergos because they think it will build 'unnecessary' upper body bulk, but this ain't the case if used properly.

    I thought I'd never get on an ergo again after I packed in rowing, but am seriously thinking of getting one to use over the winter!

    Same here mate...even the noise of the erg started to fill me with dread, but am thinking about it! I was a LWT rower so never really had that much muscle mass until i purposely started to try to build it up on the weights...soon lost that though!
    "Bite off more than you can chew, and chew like hell!!"
  • nasahapley
    nasahapley Posts: 717
    Bl**dy lightweight rowers; whenever I managed a personal best on a 2k/5k test night one of the pipsqueeks at my old club (York City), would beat it despite being a good 15kg lighter than me! :cry::wink:

    Seriously though, I always thought a good lightweight rower could make the transition to good cyclist fairly quickly; and from what you've said it appears I was right!

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