I usually do most of my training indoors on the turbo and I race in about 3 or 4 TT’s per month. I do the occassional outdoor group ride (2 a month) and I notice that on the flats and small inclines that I can easily hold power and maintain good speed. However when the road rises up I feel that my…

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[image] colinio: My trainer is not a smart trainer but a decent cyclops super magneto pro model. That has 4 different settings with a selection knob on the flywheel? Which setting are you using?

I agree with the points above. The trainer is good for tempo, steady-state, and VO2MAX intervals, but climbing has to be done on the road. Core strength, arm strength, leg stabilization, and position are completely different on road climbs. It’s best to mix actual road climbs with intervals on the…

Thanks for all the replies. I think the bottom line is that I need to do some hill reps outside. Probably just 30min to 1 hour outside a week specifically on hills will sort this out for me.

Quote: “That has 4 different settings with a selection know on the flywheel? Which setting are you using?” All these 4 settings do is increase the weight of the fly wheel, effectively increasing the resistance. It still doesn’t really replicate the bodies muscle uses going up a hill etc.

[image] colinio: All these 4 settings do is increase the weight of the fly wheel That’s not true. It alters the position of the spring-balanced magnets in the flywheel. What it changes is the proximity of the magnets to the aluminum that generates the resistance. As a result, it alters the…

I could be wrong about this, but I feel like some of this also has to do with upper body strength. Recently I entered a mountain biking race (single-speed with some climbing) after a few months of indoor training and felt like my arms were jello after a while and I wasn’t getting the assist in roc…

Upper body strength can matter, but I find it is a lower factor for road riding. In your example, single-speed MTB, there is a HUGE level of effort required to make that work. It is vastly different from a road bike with gearing options and presumably “normal” cadence and pedaling. SSMTB is a dif…

[image] colinio: I don’t feel I have mimicked these short sharp hill climbs in my workouts so far, otherwise I wouldn’t notice it quite so much in the real world. This is probably the answer more than anything about cadence/gradient angle etc. What plan have you been doing? If you haven’t d…

I did a couple crits that had hills lasting about 1-2 minutes. SSB, Short Power Build, and Crit Specialty touch on these but not close to the extent that I did in the races and it showed. On a power to weight curve, the shorter TR intervals in those plans don’t come close to the curves used in WKO t…

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