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  • Turbo trainers, indoor trainers, ergo, static trainer, torture machine, whatever

  • you want to call these, they are a great way of keeping fit if the weather is

  • simply too bad for you to get outside training. Or if you want a good quality,

  • quick workout around your daily commitments. In this video, we're

  • going to show you a few different types of trainers that are currently on the

  • market to enable you to make a decision as to which one is right for you.

  • All the ones that we're going to show you today allow you to put your own bike on

  • them and has the advantage that means you are in the same positions you are out on

  • the road. And if you've got a power meter on your bike, you'll get comparable

  • measurements for when you're normally training.

  • The first trainer we're going to go through with you today gets its resistance

  • at the back here through opposing magnets. Now, this is really the entry-level

  • trainer these days on the market. You might want to consider this one if you're

  • on a budget, or you simply don't think you're going to be riding that much

  • indoors. Other advantages apart from that price point are the fact that you can

  • change the resistance using this thing that you can mount up on your handlebars.

  • Which makes it great if you want to do intervals during your session.

  • On this one we've got numbers one to five, number one being the easiest.

  • That means we can spin along quite nicely on the big ring, just as you would do if

  • you're in a big group on a flat road. Number five is the hardest and that once's

  • quite hard to peddle, even on the small ring, just as it would be on your local

  • climb. Disadvantage of this one, well, being and entry-level trainer,

  • it doesn't feel that realistic when you compare it to the feeling of being out on

  • the road. And it's also particularly noisy, so if you're in an apartment block,

  • or if you've got some neighbors that don't like the noise or even a partner that gets

  • sick of your addiction to cycling, well, then you might want to consider our next

  • trainer. Okay, this next one is a fluid trainer and as the name suggests,

  • it gets its resistance from fluid here at the rear roller. The main advantage of

  • this one over the magnetic trainer, it's got a much more realistic road feel to it

  • and it's also much quieter. It's not gonna annoy those people close to you as much.

  • And also, if you listen to TV or radio or music whilst you're training you'll be

  • able to hear that clearly without having to turn the volume up to its maximum.

  • The main disadvantage of this fluid trainer over the magnetic one is simply

  • the price point. It's around about one third more expensive. However, there

  • are some similarities between the two. The first is the tire rests against this

  • roller here at the back. So, if you start to train indoors quite a bit, you might

  • find that your normal tire wears down quite quickly, and you might want to

  • consider buying a trainer specific tire, which could save you money in the long

  • term. The second similarity, they both rely on gravity. As you can see this rear

  • tripod section isn't fixed, so once you put your bike in here, you sit on it or

  • simply push your tire against this rear roller.

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  • And the third similarity is simply that they both fold down. So if you haven't got

  • too much room in your apartment or house, this might be the one for you.

  • This next trainer is called a direct drive, and as you can probably tell,

  • the main difference is that you have to take the rear wheel out of your bike and

  • then mount the frame onto here where the chain will wrap around this cassette.

  • The main advantage of this, well it's extremely stable. There's not much side to

  • side rocking even when you're going really hard. It's also got a very realistic road

  • feel similar to what you experience when you're actually outside training, and it's

  • extremely quiet, so you're not going to disturb anyone. You can also link this

  • particular one out to different media devices, get your power date or anything

  • else that you want if you want to take your training to that next level.

  • And if you're somebody that wants to do sprints indoors, this is definitely the

  • one for you because unlike the magnetic or fluid one, you're not going to experience

  • any rear wheel slippage. Disadvantages, well, the price point for starters.

  • It's almost double the price of the fluid trainer, and you've also got to consider

  • the fact that you're probably going to want to buy an extra cassette so you'd be

  • chaining it from your wheel onto the trainer every time you want to use it.

  • The only other disadvantage is really the bulkiness of it. Even when you folded this

  • leg down, it still takes up quite a lot of room in comparison to the others. So, if

  • you're stuck for space where you live, you might want to go back to the other two.

  • There is another type of trainer on the market and they are called rollers.

  • You'll see to track riders warming up on these a lot before their events, and

  • that's because they can really get a lot of leg speed because there isn't that much

  • resistance. Another advantage of these is that it makes time go past that little bit

  • quicker, because you actually have to concentrate on keeping upright,

  • which believe me, is a lot harder than for Bronchial Gilmour makes it look.

  • Disadvantage of these, well, that lack of resistance means that if you're a powerful

  • rider, you might not have enough bare to be able to get a decent into the workout

  • done. So, as a quick recap when trying to decide which trainer is right for you,

  • well, of course, firstly you need to stay within your budget. Secondly,

  • you need to consider how much noise is going to affect those around you.

  • Thirdly, how much you're actually going to be training indoors, and finally,

  • what type of workouts you want to do and how scientific you want to make them.

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