How Time-Crunched Cyclists Should Leverage Indoor Cycling Year-Round

Key topics in this episode:

• Best Practices:
  • Standardize your indoor cycling setup/equipment/apps
  • Get more fans for greater airflow
  • Position screens at normal sightline for outdoor riding position
• How to align indoor cycling with your training goals.
• Advantages to indoor cycling that outdoor cycling can't match
• Examining and fixing the difference between indoor and outdoor power outputs.
• How indoor cycling can increase training availability for Time-Crunched Cyclists by 30-50% weekly, monthly, and yearly.
• Using indoor cycling as a low-risk way to improve bike fit.
• How to take your indoor cycling fitness outside.

LINKS

• Ride Inside book by Joe Friel and Jim Rutberg
• Are FTP and Power Training Zones Different for Outdoor and Indoor Cycling?
• ERG Mode for Indoor Cycling: When to use it and when to turn it off
• Top 6 Indoor Cycling Mistakes to Avoid or Fix

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Guest
Jim Rutberg has been an athlete, coach, and content creator in the outdoor sports, endurance coaching, and event industries for more than 20 years. He is the Media Director and a coach for CTS and co-author of several training and sports nutrition books, including Training Essentials for Ultrarunning with Jason Koop, Ride Inside with Joe Friel, and The Time-Crunched Cyclist with Chris Carmichael. He writes for trainright.com and his work has appeared in Bicycling, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Velonews, Inside Triathlon, and on numerous websites. A graduate of Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Physiology, Jim resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his two sons, Oliver and Elliot. He can be reached at jrutberg@trainright.com or @rutty_rides on Instagram.

Host
Adam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for more than 13 years and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.

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