
I use the fitness I gain to seek out warm winter/early spring cycle trips to Tenerife.

I took to indoor riding after an injury, I took to it and ride all year round and spend indoors from September to March. They can be boring if you cant mentally hack the workouts indoors.įor a beginner I would go with Zwift, because it has multiple elements to keep you occupied and entertained. They do require dedication to the plan to achieve results. Suffer fest, Trainer Road are dedicated structure based plans which are proven to bring on fitness. That doesn't preclude women from racing in the mens events, they do often and race exceptionally well. Its no different than programming a workout with targets into your Garmin, it just saves that work. Zwift has workouts and plans but way fewer than TR. Traditionally they are sweet spot heavy but It even has 80/20 plans now a days. Unless you can self set training plans strongly recommend TrainerRoad.

There are multiple categories depending on your fitness- even womens categories. The main differentiation between Zwift and TrainerRoad is TR has a huge catalog of workouts and a large set of training plans. Even the worst of TrainerRoad cycling specific plans sometimes don’t hold a light to Zwift. I don’t have any issue with the Monthly subscription model these two are based on ( 19.95 TrainerRoad and 14.99 Zwift ), but many readers of the indoor-cycling community do. Then it has racing- this is great hard fun. TrainerRoad is a power-based training software-driven by motivational and instructional messages to keep your focus. It has a decent workout program too, where you ride the courses but at prescribed efforts to improve your fitness

You can ride along, just joining up with lots of others or try and stay with faster riders It has long steep routes, or flat easy ones.
