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Home Trainer, an ideal solution to train from home

Mainly due to bad weather, many cyclists favor rolling indoors on Home Trainer. Home trainers are the devices that allow you to ride on site with your own bike (unlike apartment bikes).

The Home Trainers have revolutionized the practice of cycling by making it possible to ride without leaving home!

What are the advantages of riding on Home Trainer?

Nowadays, some models are at the cutting edge of technology and can provide a sensation very close to an outing in real conditions. This is an advantage for driving when the climatic conditions do not allow it or when you want to drive during the week when you get home from work when night has already fallen. The second advantage of riding on Home Trainer is that it allows you to build and follow a specific training plan without being embarrassed by time, cars or red lights.

What are the differences between a framework and roller trainer?

Manufacturers offer two types of home trainers: those with frame and others with roller. On the first models, your bike is fixed at the tightening of your rear wheel while on a Home Trainer with roller, the two wheels of your bicycle will be in contact with the roller. On these latest models, you will have to learn how to keep the balance once.

Roll trainers

Among the Home Trainers, we often include what are called "rollers". It is sort of "the ancestor" of the Home Trainer as it is conceived today. There are 3 rollers (one for the front wheel, 2 for the rear) with a belt that connects the whole and allows you to roll the 2 wheels. We then approach more sensations that we have on the road. The "rollers" are still widely used and available on probikeshop.fr. They are highly appreciated for the track, when the runners recover by turning their legs between the series.

Although a bit bulky, the roller trainers are easy to use and do not require to go up or dismantle any components to use it. On the other hand, with exceptions on high -end models, roller home trainers have no resistance. Also, high -end roller models do not allow the level of resistance to the bicycle and forces the cyclist to get off the bike if he wishes to change resistance, which can be binding during a session of session strength/velocity or repeated intensities.

Home trainers with framework

A classic home trainer is made up of a single roll and is fixed by the bicycle through the rear hub, which allows it to stay in balance and avoid any risk of falling! You can adjust the difficulty thanks to a wheel that allows you to brake or release the roll. Manufacturers today offer many options that allow you to program intensity beaches and instantly estimate your speed or power. With the Home Trainers available on Probikeshop.fr, you can now program your "Watt" training!

There are all types of home trainers. This ranges from the simplest model that is placed on the rear road only to electromagnetic home trainers systems. The latter offer a wide range of possibilities until you reproduce a real output with a visual if you opt for a connected home trainer. These high -end home trainers models replace your rear wheel with a cassette already installed on your home trainer. Thus, you do not use your bike tires as may be the case with with conventional frame trainers.

Ready to train on Home Trainer? Do not forget to hydrate yourself well during the effort and limit your training time so as not to cause a water or mineral deficit too large to your body.

For more information, you can consult our advice sheet that tells you How to choose your home trainer.

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