I’ve got my FTP test on Saturday. Finishing up the Build Your Power Zones program. The test is awful but in the absolute best way
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Took a chill out ride with Ben today and his all-time favorite Teardrop by Massive Attack was on there. It reminded me of his full body stretch I do a lot that has it where he also mentions it being his all-time favorite.
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I was tracking just behind my PR going into the last few intervals. Kind of blacked out but ended up passing it!
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Sorry if this has been addressed before but curious what y’all think. How often should I be hitting a PR? I feel like I can’t push myself to the limit every class but if I don’t come close most days I feel like I’m not trying hard enough.
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How long have you been riding? Also, this sounds like two different questions
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How often should PR?
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How often should I go all out in class?
I don’t know that either has a hard and fast answer.
To the first, I’d say you’ll likely PR “fairly often” in the first year or so of riding bc you’ll improve fairly quickly. And that is great and important because the PR badge is important to the psychology of Peloton: external rewards validate the effort you put in making habits. It gets really tough to PR by year 3, but by then you’re working out for intrinsic rewards, so the PR’s matter a little less (as do shoutouts for milestone rides, performance badges, etc…all of which get tougher to gather the longer you ride).
To the second, you’ll likely get a lot of responses and it depends on your personal goals. I’ve said it here before, but I only ride one “bust my ass” ride a week, then I ride a couple moderate rides and at least one easy ride. That model lets ME really get the most from my hard ride and still play golf and go about life without having lumber for legs or burning too many theraguns out. It also makes it so that I can ride long term without injury, burnout, etc… YMMV.
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Kinda like what @rkris said below, the amount of all out rides is very rider/goal dependent. One of the biggest reason I ride now is to stay in shape for officiating lacrosse. I recently got bumped up to college officiating and conditioning is a huge thing for us. I personally go for roughly 3 all out/heavy rides in the off season and two more moderate/fun rides. During season where I’m reffing 3-4 days per week, I will do 1-0 all out rides and mostly doing more maintenance rides to help loosen my legs back up.
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What a playlist this was, thanks for sharing. Just did this ride this morning.
I went out last night for trivia night with a few friends, so I ended up not getting to bed until about 90 minutes later than usual, and in spite of my best efforts to watch my water intake, I was probably pretty dehydrated from having a few beers last night. So, when that’s the case, I usually opt for a 20 minute ride, just to not take the day off but to take it a little easy.
I felt like a zombie waking up, yet I set a 20 minute PR because of how much I enjoyed this playlist.
Then again, PR or otherwise, I always find those types of rides to be the most rewarding. I was exhausted, felt like shit, really would’ve preferred to hit snooze and keep sleeping, but I got it done.
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Ok so I don’t feel too bad since I’ve only had the bike since Thanksgiving and am putting up a PR almost every week.
I definitely have days that when I start a class I can tell I don’t have a full tank so I’m not going to be lighting the world on fire but it is really nice to start having some classes where I can tell I have another gear to tap into, so already feeling some improvement on a physical front which is cool.
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Took this ride this morning not knowing what drum and bass was. My intention, like you, was to keep my effort sane. I was using this in place of a powerzone ride, I just wanted to keep it in high z3 and low to mid z4. Once the music started I knew I hated drum and bass music and I had no inclination to go harder, and every inclination to turn the fucking shit music off and listen to a podcast.
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Take your Jess King hatred somewhere else.
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I like Jess, read the whole thread and you’ll see I am a Jess advocate. I take sweat steady rides all the time. I can like her and think the music blew ass,
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I feel like I have a problem finding moderate rides. What are you looking for when you do a moderate ride? It may be how I ride but I feel like all of the rides for the most part are either all out or you do a low impact.
Speaking of Jess King, as an avowed …not fan of hers, I took the David Bowie ride and expected to hold my nose at her through it. She killed it. It was AWESOME. (Except the last Peloton remix which was horrid and stupid but it was the last 90 seconds or so, so who cares.)
I also then took the Leanne 10 min cooldown Bowie ride and it’s similarly awesome. She’s SO into it. About 2 1/2 minutes from the end she just gets overwhelmed and sort of shrieks, “This is so cool!” and I just was all in for that.
Huge Bowie fan, and wasn’t disappointed (though there were massive gaps in what they played, obviously, but the songs chosen were certainly very good for riding, etc.)
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If you do a search and sort by difficulty you might be able to find some “moderate” rides… though the difficulty rating is an exact science. Some of the music rides I have taken I would consider moderate. Or sometimes I just adjust my resistance/cadence numbers so I’m not killing myself.
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Doesn’t matter the ride, just adjust your effort. That matters more than class structure–though I tend to avoid climbs/HIIT-HILLS/Tabata for moderate rides.
So, I’ll look for a theme ride and cruise the middle of resistance call outs when I typically ride 5 above the resistance call.
Also what @yungloudancolin said: sort rides by hard to easy and look for stuff in the 5-6 range.
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IMO the best “moderate” rides are Power Zone Endurance classes. The music is real hit or miss (Wilpers musical choices have been well documented here), but I find the classes to be challenging enough to get a sweat going, but you’re never going “all out”.
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