Welcome back Kim! Sometimes we need a little down time - gives us back the fire we have to train!
I did the trainer today as well. Let's see if I can sum it up - as it was a good workout. Basically holding specific wattage levels over different cadences, and making appropriate gear changes to get to goal intensity. I'm trying to work more on maintaining a faster cadence than I'm currently comfortable at.
Warm up 10 min -
(5 min easy, 5 min build with some spin ups
)
5x5 min at 70-80% FTP - cadence change each 5 min
(95+, 90, 80's, 70's, 60's
) - 1 min recovery in-between each
4x4 min at 80-90% FTP -cadence change
(95+, 90's, 80's, 70's
) - 1 min recovery in-between
3x3 min 90-100%FTP - cadence
(90's, 80's, 70's
) 2 min recovery inbetween
2x2 min FTP - cadence
( 90's, 80's
)
3x1 min FTP + 20-30 watts -cadence in 90's
) - 1 min recovery inbetween
spin legs and cool down
Worked out to be around 1:30 approx. Good workout. I saw a basic timing of this workout somewhere, so just tweaked to what I wanted to accomplish today. Benefits of being a spin instructor is I can take just about any idea and make a workout out of it :-
)!
Goals for me - get into PT and hit the rehab hard so I can start running again. For now just working on my bike and swim.
Happy New Year everyone!!!