# What do you do for entertainment while on the trainer? **URL:** \ **Category:** Training\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572 "2021-06-07T18:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tim\_P](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/tim_p/32/33260_2.png) [@Tim\_P](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Tim_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/1 "2021-06-07T18:37:17Z")
Podcasts? Audio books? Real books? Are you a weirdo who puts an Ironman flag on the wall and you stare at it for 4 hours as motivation? (I know someone who used to do that). I have the TR plan on my phone next to my iPad where I watch shows or movies. So far I have done: - all the marvel movies. I looked up how to watch them in chronological order, instead of release date - Star Wars movies + mandolorian - F1 Drive to Survive series - currently watching Westworld It’s nice if you can find a long series because you don’t have to think about picking out something to watch. Just fire it up and press play. What do you do/watch? ---
**Author:** ![Joelrivera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/joelrivera/32/145557_2.png) [@Joelrivera](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Joelrivera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/2 "2021-06-07T18:39:23Z")
There is another thread for this. FWIW. I watch series. LOTS of anime and other older series. If its a longer than 90 minute ride, I usually put a movie. I hate to pause and resume movies later. Currently watching the Last Airbender… ---
**Author:** ![jmmetsar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/jmmetsar/32/12893_2.png) [@jmmetsar](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/jmmetsar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/3 "2021-06-07T18:42:37Z")
Nothing, I purposefully stare at nothing but a grey cinder block wall to increase my mental capacity to endure. ---
**Author:** ![rkoswald](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/rkoswald/32/28273_2.png) [@rkoswald](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/rkoswald)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/4 "2021-06-07T18:45:52Z")
Visual: Zwift Audio: Rosaries, [Formed.org](http://Formed.org), podcasts, YouTube (GPLama, DCRainMaker, NorCal Cycling, NBC Sports for highlights) ---
**Author:** ![istelzner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/istelzner/32/12895_2.png) [@istelzner](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/istelzner)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/5 "2021-06-07T18:46:17Z")
I have a dumb trainer, so its hard to concentrate on anything else other than hitting power numbers. I have music playing, which changes with the workout style. High intensity threshold is techno and high bpm music. Low intensity is is 90s-2000s pop. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_P](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/tim_p/32/33260_2.png) [@Tim\_P](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Tim_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/7 "2021-06-07T18:57:58Z")
What shows/series specifically? I’m looking ahead to once I finish the current one I’m on. ---
**Author:** ![SeanHurley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/seanhurley/32/55555_2.png) [@SeanHurley](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/SeanHurley)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/8 "2021-06-07T18:58:58Z")
Tempo or easier: Movies with a plot Sweet spot: Skate or snowboard videos where I can pay attention off and on to the visuals, or just listen to the soundtrack Above sweet Spot: Just music. Visuals are annoying for me at this intensity. ---
**Author:** ![BCrossen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/bcrossen/32/16261_2.png) [@BCrossen](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/BCrossen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/10 "2021-06-07T19:05:29Z")
Similar to Sean, my entertainment depends on the workout intensity. Lately, I’ve been putting on Not Another D&D Podcast while Zwifting, but usually I do one of the below. - Ramp test: Either the Hades OST or the album The World You Want To See by Glacier Veins (picked it at the start of the season and have stuck with it each time. Probs will change for next season) - Endurance: Anything that will make me laugh because endurance is so damn boring. Often this is just College Humor or Smosh videos on Youtube. - Tempo and Sweet Spot: AACC or in some cases, race footage. - Above Sweet Spot: AACC or in the cases where I get sensory overload, nothing at all. Sounds counter intuitive, but if there’s too much noise when I’m in the hurtbox, I cannot focus on the work. ---
**Author:** ![Joelrivera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/joelrivera/32/145557_2.png) [@Joelrivera](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Joelrivera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/11 "2021-06-07T19:06:53Z")
> [@JSTootell](#): > > My GF and I have been watching Battlestar Galactica (2000’s version) That was the first series I watch on a trainer back in 2012 (dumb trainer). I never finished it, before they removed from Amazon (I was 3 episodes short\_. I finally and regrettably finished it last year… what a bad ending. ---
**Author:** ![robyb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/robyb/32/7721_2.png) [@robyb](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/robyb)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/12 "2021-06-07T19:23:53Z")
My reward for training in the basement = Youtube time! Lots of catching up to my subscriptions and typically some back and forth with some music videos if I need some motivation. Also… you know what’s hard? Balling your eyes out because of X factor golden buzzer while being asked to put down 120-150% FTP. Just sayin’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_P](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/tim_p/32/33260_2.png) [@Tim\_P](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Tim_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/13 "2021-06-07T19:26:22Z")
Lol ramp test I don’t watch anything. I have a playlist that I made for a 10k that gets me through. First few songs are pretty relaxed and just get me rolling, and by the end the intensity is ramped up to push me harder. ---
**Author:** ![FrankTuna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/franktuna/32/135629_2.png) [@FrankTuna](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/FrankTuna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/14 "2021-06-07T19:26:33Z")
Not to side track this…but can you share that Marvel movies list?? 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![ciarrai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/ciarrai/32/39721_2.png) [@ciarrai](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/ciarrai)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/15 "2021-06-07T19:29:16Z")
If you’re using Disney+, they have it in the menus as chronological timeline order. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_P](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/tim_p/32/33260_2.png) [@Tim\_P](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Tim_P)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/16 "2021-06-07T19:29:17Z")
Lol just google “how to watch marvel movies in order”. I had watched them all out of order the first time. Not even by release date. I would watch some later ones and think they were pretty good, then go back and watch other older ones, so the plot line was all out of whack. I didn’t even know AntMan or Guardians were Marvel properties 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![FrankTuna](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/franktuna/32/135629_2.png) [@FrankTuna](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/FrankTuna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/17 "2021-06-07T19:30:00Z")
Thanks!!! ---
**Author:** ![BCrossen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/bcrossen/32/16261_2.png) [@BCrossen](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/BCrossen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/18 "2021-06-07T19:36:04Z")
Oh, there’s nothing to watch for me either. Just music playing, and sometimes I mute or pause it in the final three minutes because I get sensory overload and can’t focus with the music playing. ---
**Author:** ![Pbase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/pbase/32/969_2.png) [@Pbase](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Pbase)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/20 "2021-06-07T20:13:49Z")
The best shows I’ve watched on the bike over the last year: Peaky Blinders Punisher Breaking Bad The Boys Ted Lasso Love Death and Robots Stranger Things Altered Carbon Black Mirror Watchmen The Flight Attendant Mare of Eastown Lovecraft Country Raised by Wolves ---
**Author:** ![Pipipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/pipipi/32/157705_2.png) [@Pipipi](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Pipipi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/21 "2021-06-07T20:15:02Z")
I definitely enjoy boxsets, so Game of Thrones or The Wire. I tend to find I need the subtitles for some of the quieter dialogue. I also enjoy the SW or Marvel movies. Something escapey/fantasy, like Lord of the Rings, but some recentish scifi films like Source Code or Edge of Tomorrow. I have thought about Star Trek episodes but I think they’d be too short to match up with workouts? What I also enjoy is putting on the commentary, Director or actors or whoever, to get another side to films I know really well. I certainly was astonished by a particular scene (that I won’t spoil) where apparently whilst the actors appear to be talking face to face, were actually filmed a few months apart and the two actors never met on set for this scene and did their scenes solo with another person being the back of their head. Or when a director explained about how an ending was originally going to be very different but got rewritten. Weird for me because I thought that story could only ever go that way. Anyway, that’s probably just an excuse for me to watch a film I’ve watched loads of times before. I am just waiting for someone to invent the ‘device’ that reinserts all the deleted scenes into the correct place in the film, rather than just having a whole bunch of them as extras. Surely that can’t be too difficult an option? ---
**Author:** ![Ken](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/ken/32/96932_2.png) [@Ken](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Ken)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/22 "2021-06-07T20:34:52Z")
I just started watching Medical Police on Netflix. For me it’s perfect for trainer rides because it’s nothing more than a silly comedy series that doesn’t require much thought. ---
**Author:** ![HLaB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/hlab/32/60448_2.png) [@HLaB](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/HLaB)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572/23 "2021-06-07T20:43:18Z")
For endurance sessions I might switch on the TR podcast or GCN but other for other work outs I tend to just watch the clock. [Next page](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-do-you-do-for-entertainment-while-on-the-trainer/59572.md?page=2)