Training with HR and Rear Wheel Speed on a Turbo

shockedsoshocked
shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
edited August 2013 in Training, fitness and health
Anyone have any tips? I remember Pete Reads books from a few year back covered this, but is it just as simple as noting your HR for a given speed and seeing improvements? And is speed as reliable as power if everything is calibrated the same (tyre pressure etc?)
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  • 16mm
    16mm Posts: 545
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Anyone have any tips? I remember Pete Reads books from a few year back covered this, but is it just as simple as noting your HR for a given speed and seeing improvements? And is speed as reliable as power if everything is calibrated the same (tyre pressure etc?)

    Graeme Obrees book has a chapter on this. Well worth buying.
  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    Have you seen trainer road?
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Have you seen trainer road?

    Nope? Worth a google?
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  • dw300
    dw300 Posts: 1,642
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40011&t=12869366
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  • napoleond
    napoleond Posts: 5,992
    Sorry I didn't reply about it, went away that evening, no Internet!

    Yeah trainer road is great if you don't have a power meter.
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  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    Anyone have any tips? I remember Pete Reads books from a few year back covered this, but is it just as simple as noting your HR for a given speed and seeing improvements?

    No - it's nowhere near as simple as that. HR cannot be related to speed, there are too many variables. By all means use HR on a turbo, but relating it to your speed on the turbo will not tell you anything useful.
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    And is speed as reliable as power if everything is calibrated the same (tyre pressure etc?)

    You might get away with using speed as a proxy for power with certain types of turbo sessions - like a limit test, for example. If you are trying to replicate power, then don't. Use RPE instead.
  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,347
    for some turbos there's a published/known power curve, once warmed up they are reasonably accurate and repeatable, you can make a simple speed-power table

    for instance...

    http://www.kurtkinetic.com/powercurve.php
    http://www.cycleops.cz/files/trainers.pdf

    fluid ones are better as the power/speed curve is simpler and resistance progressive
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