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:
www.amazon.com/Ride-Inside-Es...
- Are FTP and Power Training Zones Different for Outdoor and Indoor Cycling?
trainright.com/are-ftp-and-po...
- ERG Mode for Indoor Cycling: When to use it and when to turn it off
trainright.com/erg-mode-indoo...
- Top 6 Indoor Cycling Mistakes to Avoid or Fix
trainright.com/top-6-indoor-c...
// 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, The Time-Crunched Triathlete, The Ultimate Ride, Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness, Chris Carmichael’s Fitness Cookbook, The Carmichael Training Systems Cyclist’s Training Diary, and 5 Essentials for a Winning Life 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 [e-mail] 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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[@steven871]

Adam. Wow I appreciate your level of detail. We are time crunched. Could we make this much shorter than 38 minutes!

[@Drew-fj9ul]

Another very good podcast thanks. One thing I was hoping to hear was your perspectives on the pros and con's of using ERG mode for different workout types and/or training zones. Maybe another time!

[@CTS_TrainRight]

Thanks for listening and the feedback! You may find this article we wrote helpful in the meantime: trainright.com/erg-mode-indoor-cycling-when-to-use-it-or-turn-it-off/

[@dennisspors7530]

For me the winter weather in my area is icy, high winds and freezing rain. Indoor cycling is the way to go.

[@atxmtbr]

Fantastic content, as always 👍.

[@CTS_TrainRight]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.

[@kirkprl]

I also do Z2 indoors. Outside there are too many variables, hills, winds, stop signs, traffic etc. It's hard to stay in z2 for a whole ride. Indoor i can watch a show and cruise at z2 all day.

[@daniellestat]

Looks like you dont like indoor training hat guy.

[@87togabito]

I don’t get why people would bother riding outdoors, other than to measure your progress against others. Indoor you have perfect weather with the AC and a full on industrial fan, a TV with Netflix/console VSA the boring monotonous non stop trees, you can get on/off the bike in minutes and no traffic. It’s on every single way BETTER than riding outdoors. Did I also mention that you can actually watch TV and game while riding? It’s literally a no-brainer option to prefer indoors to outdoors.