Dec 15, 2011
here are many reasons to use a power meter but the main ones that come to
my mind are listed below:
• Getting to know yourself, what are your strengths, what are you weaknesses and what needs improving are all worthwhile things to know.
• It enables you to share your ride data with a coach or anyone else who needs to see it so that you can get productive feedback on your training.
• You can be more specific with your training and methods.
• With the information you can gather from the power meter you can plan ahead to get the most out of yourself.
• Just monitoring training with heart rate alone is useful but heart rate can be influenced by other factors such as temperature, emotions, caffeine and altitude, where as power does not have these variables.
• Power can help you track changes in fitness and track overall training load.
• With a power meter you can accurately analyse a race and see exactly why you won or lost.
• A power meter can be used to motivate you while doing intervals, by using the average power as a carrot you can push yourself that little bit more every time you train.
• It can also be use to improve your position and aerodynamics on a bike.
• It is a great pacing tool in a race to prevent you going too much into the red, this is especially useful in a time trial aka Bradley Wiggins worlds TT 2011.
• With a power meter every ride can be a test of your fitness and help track changes in performance without having to do tests so often.
• A power meter can help make a turbo session less mind numbing as you can spice things up by riding certain powers for set durations and/or try to hold a set cadence at a certain power which will help the time fly by more easily.
• You can also use a power meter to “estimate” how many kilocalories you used in a session to better determine you nutrition needs.
With all this information at your fingertips there is no reason why everybody cannot achieve their best performance this coming season. Forme Coaching are official distributors of Cycleops Power Meters both to purchase or rent.
If interested please get in touch at info@formecoaching.com
http://www.formecoaching.com/
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