I used to do that but now i just turn the fan on high & start my workouts with a long-sleeved shirt on. If its really cold in the basement ill button a couple buttons until I warm, then its easy to take off a few minutes in.
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Yeah it would be a nice to have item but the pause to turn on the fan is such a minor issue on my setup that I havenāt bothered with a remote switch. If I had to stop, unclip, and then walk across a room just to turn on a fan it would be different.
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I keep a broom handle within reach and use that to push the buttons on the fan, cheaper than a fan with a remote and the batteries never go flat.
If you get the struggle survey, you get the option of āI did not struggleā if I recall correctly? Then it brings you to the normal survey screen.
I have had occasional omnishambles of dropped earbuds, dropped bottles, fans in wrong place (or I used to knock the one I could reach out of line before remote sockets), deliveries etc., but whenever Iāve followed the above, Iāve got the Progression and Adaptations due!
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You are taking longer recovery than the workout planned making it easier. In effect reducing the progression level and adaptive stimulus of your workout.
If you are only stopping for a minute or two, and stopping during recovery intervals, you really arenāt impacting the workout to any significant degree. As Amber used to say āOur bodies are not that preciseā.
SO if you need to stop to pick up a towel or take a bathroom break or refill a bottle, no big deal. No different than coming to stop lilght outside. But if you are stopping regularly from exhaustion / effort and extending every recovery interval, then you will be impacting the quality of the workout.
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I use the cheap Govee smart plugs and have either a nest in the room to turn them on by voice or i actually have a macro that sends an API call to IFTTT to turn them on and off via a dial on my keyboard.
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The biggest problem I have (me personally) is that if I open the door to stop once, then it is far too easy to stop again and again. There is something in my brain that is wired that crossing over that boundary is pretty much the end of being able to suffer after that. For any interval, if I even just backpedal for a second, I might as well just end the workout.
Yes, correct.
Edit: Although Nate did say something about workouts with pauses in the AI FTP launch. Not that it would affect prediction (directly), but that subsequent workouts with pauses werenāt used when they looked at outcome metrics like āless likely to over predictā if I remember right.
I like the thought that not stopping a workout when something happens builds resilance. Iāve dropped earbuds before, dropped my bottle, etc, but still carry on. I believe this is a good habbit for teaching me how to deals with set backs (albeit small) that will inevitably happen when ridding / racing outside.
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I stop most workouts for the bathroom (but I usually am on there for 2-3 hours). I donāt think you are missing out on anything if you keep the total amount of time to a minimum, and are stopping during the recovery periods. Most people probably have more stops/coasting more while riding outside than an occasional stop while riding the trainer anyways.
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I did mean to say, even where I have had to pause for intensity, itās generally several to automatically trigger a struggle survey. 1 or 2, itās normally down to me to classify it as all out.
If youāre triggering them all the time, I think you may have to look at your turbo space!
This is the real issue. In the grand scheme of things, short stops are not going to have much if any physical effect. But the mental difference between stopping is essentially never an option and Iāll stop if if needed is huge.
It may sound weird, but having spent a far amount of time in my youth training with elite athletes, it was a given that a workout was basically a sacred thing. There were certain basic rituals that were followed. Right up there with never, ever being late was never ever stopping once you start. Actually, that attitude was so fundamental that it just was, no one thought about it.
Sure, stuff happens, both ālifeā and the occasional physical failure, but the goal should be to cultivate an attitude that getting off your bike during a workout is sacrilegious. Its just not on option that is on the table or even contemplated.
Of course, that is kind of insane way to live in normal life, so if you want to get off, do it and just donāt worry about it.
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By āaffectingā, I meant Adaptive Training.
I doubt that a well-placed mini-pause (i.e. getting up to turn on the fan just after the warm up) negates all of the real benefits you can get from a workout. It might defeat the purpose on a workout that is training repeatability, but even those have working sets with longer rest in between. In other words it should be fairly obvious how to not disrupt the main sets of the workout. We are not robots. Not yet anyway. 
Edit: Because nuance isnāt represented well in short responses sometimes - I have to say that I agree with the sentiments expressed here about being prepared and making it your goal not to be distracted in the midst of (especially a hard) workout. But I think weāre mostly on the same page that stuff happens and if so, itās not the end of the world.
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Yaāll are crazy with some of your comments. I donāt plan to stop but donāt even think about it if I have to. Just stop during a valley and go pee or grab a dropped towel or whatever. It affects nothingā¦. geesh.
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Yupā¦same for me when it comes to quitting a race. Once you do it, it becomes easier to do it again.
Totally agree. Obviously if stopping during intervals then issue but quick stop during rest intervals is no issue (obviously not talking about 40/20s etc!)
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Thatās not what I said, just that itāll reduce them, warm up excepted. I do t think anyone but you has suggested itāll negate all the benefits.
Sorry, again - this is why writing responses in forums is tricky and should probably be avoided 
. I donāt have time to nit pick every last word I use. Obviously you did not say ānegateā, but ādiminishesā. I still do not agree with this diminishment in the cases that I described.
I think where ānegate all the benefitsā came from was thinking about adaptive training taking this tactic and deciding (in algorithm terms) not to give any adaptations for that workout.
I still would like to know, what does AT do when there are workout pauses, or cadence and watts of 0 in the case of not pausing the workout, during a rest between sets.
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