The weather sure has gotten cold. Cold enough for many that it is time to move inside and onto the trainer. Lots of cyclists dread the trainer, but you don’t have to, in fact you can come to love it! A couple of my friends used to come in and tell me about the hours they spent the night before on their trainers. There are many ways to make trainer riding fun. There are videos that have workouts, you can listen to your MP3 player, or perform a structured workout.
If a trainer is not for you, the money you would have invested in a trainer could be invested on some winter clothing which would allow you to ride in the harshest of conditions.
Trainers are great tools to get a very structured and solid workout. One advantage of a trainer is that it removes a lot of the outside variables such as wind and weather and varying terrain. This fact makes them perfect to use when you need to run a test to see how your performance has changed no matter the time of year. Most coaches and books have different forms of these tests to help you establish your fitness level prior to starting a new workout program.