Indoor cycling is perfect for specific interval training sessions, virtual exploration, and lung-busting races. On apps such as Zwift or RGT Cycling, you can explore many different worlds and maps, and customise your avatar with unique kits, socks, bikes, and wheels. Most apps are power-based, while others use speed and cadence sensors to match your real-life performance to the virtual world. Once you connect your indoor bike trainer to a third-party training app, you have access to a whole new world of indoor cycling that includes ERG mode workouts, group rides, user customisation, and virtual racing. Advances in indoor cycling technology have made the user experience better than ever вЂ“ quiet, direct-drive smart trainers with large flywheels are incredibly smooth and carry an amount of momentum that is nearly identical to what you feel while riding outside. By attaching your own bike to the stationary trainer, you are essentially bringing the real-life riding experience into your pain cave, and pedalling just like you would outside.

Indoor cycling is designed to bring bike training into the comfort of your home. (Image credit: Courtesy) Why indoor cycling is better than Spinning

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