Paddling through your indoor cycling stand, looking at how much calories you’ve burnt in this much amount of time, or you might have a sad, unused bicycle at your home and you are unable to find time to actually get out of your bed and ride it some time. Well, virtual reality bike training is in town to save unambitious calorie burners and lazy fellas. These stands are used to provide highly sophisticated cycling simulations in order to make your training as realistic as possible. They can be a bit difficult from time to time but the benefits are many.
How does it work?
Similar to your indoor bike stand, the front wheel of a virtual reality bike trainer is attached to a stand and the rear wheel is rotated via a motorized roller. Both the stand and the roller are attached to multiple sensors which provides resistance and are controlled by a computer. You can adjust virtual landscape according to your workout mood and the resistance and sensors work according to your landscape providing you a real time of experience of biking through mountains, or plains or wherever you want.
What’s new in virtual reality bike training?
Different versions of virtual reality bike trainers are available now, offering a variety of sensor, resistances and pressure pads which can provide better control over pedaling power, RPM’s and more. A basic computer program comes with each stand that provides basic trails. Latest versions are providing more trails for a better experience to virtual reality bike training.
What could be the best virtual reality bike trainer for you?
While this awesome new trend in biking is hitting people all across the globe. Some might not like it because, let’s be honest setting up all the wires and sensors would not be that easy of a task especially if you are a techno-phobic person, but you can always ask for help. Besides, what’s more exciting than paddling in your gym/lounge/living room and experiencing the mountains of Utah under your wheels, and no bad weather can never stop you now from going ‘’OUT’’ and ride. Also, with the minute detailing of your workouts, heart rates, power, sensors, virtual reality biking enables you to achieve your goals as quickly as possible since the trainers can create customized training for you. Now if you are ready to spend an enormous amount of money, or let’s just call it an investment for you, because it sure can cost you thousands of dollars and that’s just the cost of stand, without the cost for monitor, computer and the bike, you must give it a shot.
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