please help need advice

anthony59

turbo trainers or rollers

peanut1978

rollers for pedalling efficiency, turbo trainers offer greater resistance and are more suited to intervals, ultimately both are incredibly boring

badly_dubbed

i use rollers, i find them more fun and you can still hurt on them

resistance is not great, but you have to concentrate all the time,

both have their plus points really

sugarbeet

Rollers versus turbos - lots of old threads on this. Naturally there's no right answer. Except perhaps to use both (or neither!)

I hate 'artificial' gym based excercise. My mind can't ignore the fact that despite all the effort I'm not actually moving! But when needs must I like my rollers too. It's been so cold recently I finally managed to convince Mrs Sugarbeet to let me do my rollering in the house, rather than out in the shed. The security of riding between a door frame is a wonder.

II have no problem with resistance, just ride faster. I only ever ride for short periods - usually do a warm up and a time trial style ten miler.Any longer than that and I'm not sure what would finish me off first...

a) Corrosion from sweat
b) Catastophic crash caused by a lack of attention
c) Pure boredom

bianchimoon

I bought elite arion resistance rollers recently, and for the first 10 mins wished i'd bought turbo (scary - so much concentration needed), after a couple of falls you get used to it and feel more 'secure' it does offer a very good workout, tho as previous posters have said a boring way to keep in shape when weather to bad to go outside

bianchimoon

I bought elite arion resistance rollers recently, and for the first 10 mins wished i'd bought turbo (scary - so much concentration needed), after a couple of falls you get used to it and feel more 'secure' it does offer a very good workout, tho as previous posters have said a boring way to keep in shape when weather to bad to go outside