Simple phone app / speed sensor?

joebristol

I've looked though the other topics and can't quite see what I'm after.

Innately mountain bike for fun / social, with some occasional road biking g with a group of lads as well. I've had a shoulder operator to stabilise it (5 weeks ago) and so have acquired a basic turbo to try and keep my legs going a bit until I get the go ahead from the physio to ride a bike outside.

Turbo is a cyclops one - it ust has a resistance adjuster and no sensors - got it from a mate for a bargain price.

I've got round to thinking I need some more motivation to train better on it than I have been. It's setup in my gym (part covered garage) and just been watching films on it.

Is there a free / cheap iPhone app that can be used for intervals - that maybe shows a route on the screen and tells you when you go harder and when to back off for intervals?

Also, if it would make things materially better, is there some sort of speed sensor I could attach to the bike that would send info to the app via Bluetooth?

Thanks in advance - hopefully I'm not duplicating the same questions that someone has already asked etc.

markhewitt1978

Firstly on the sensors front these will work http://www.wiggle.co.uk/wahoo-rpm-speed ... 0-and-ant/ they will talk to the iPhone and provide speed and cadence. Although when riding indoors I'd strongly recommend adding a heart rate monitor into that too http://www.wiggle.co.uk/wahoo-tickr-hea ... d-android/ you can use that outside too.

There's all sorts of things you can do there's paid options such as http://www.zwift.com/ios/ and http://www.trainerroad.com/ but for intervals have a look at this http://www.kinomap.com/apps/intervals

Ideally you want to be training with power which several apps will do by using the speed profile of your turbo, if it's a supported model.

joebristol

Thanks for the quick reply and useful suggestions. New iPhone arrived today so going to get it up and running and check out the free app you suggested.