Here's a handy guide to the best selling fitness trackers of the year. All of these fitness trackers offer excellent value for money, and offer excellent ways to track your bike rides and all associated stats. Wearable tech is steadily making its way into our hearts – and onto our bodies. More and more people are using fitness trackers, and making them an important part of … [Read more...]
How to Fine Tune Your Heart Rate Monitor for Optimal Fitness Gains
This post explains how to go beyond the defaults of a heart rate monitor so as to fine tune it for optimal fitness gains. If you’re planning to get faster on your bike, and to get fit, you are probably planning to monitor the intensity of your workouts with a decent heart rate monitor. Once you have your heart rate monitor, here is how to fine-tune it so as to get optimal … [Read more...]
How to Use Perceived Rate of Exertion to Get Fit
If you’re planning to get fit, or maybe even want to train to do a charity bike ride, consider how you are going to monitor the intensity of your workouts. The Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is the easiest way to measure exercise intensity - and it's free! In the table below I have added in the heart rate percentages as well. The RPE table used here is a simplification of the … [Read more...]
How to Monitor Your Exercise Intensity to Get Fit the Smart Way
If you seriously want to get fit on your bike, you need to consider how you are going to monitor the intensity of your workouts. Our advice is to consider getting a decent heart rate monitor. This post includes a chart so that you can use perceived rate of exertion to start getting fit. However, we recommend that you use the precision of a heart rate monitor to take it to the … [Read more...]
