Why Learning How to Cycle on Rollers is SO IMPORTANT?

Learning to ride the rollers is definitely not as easy as one thinks!

It’s actually quite difficult and can take a fair amount of time to learn to ride them extremely well (at least a few months of almost every day practice).


Despite this, their hands down one of the best pieces of equipment that you can buy that will assist with developing pedaling efficiency.


Roller training will allow you to develop a smooth pedaling technique and efficiency without the ‘bounce’. This is because for the rollers to ‘roll’, they require the apparatus on top (bike + rider) to roll smoothly. If you bounce, the rollers won’t roll smoothly (or at all), and you will find it very difficult to stay on them and pedal consistently.

The better you become at riding the rollers, the more opportunity you will have to participate in active recovery between training efforts or racing efforts. This can be achieved on a road bike as well, but sometimes it’s not convenient to take a road bike with you, and if you do, it can be hard to find an area to ride whilst staying close to the facility you’re training or competing at.

They are brilliant for warm-up purposes (and warm down too). You can use a road or track bike on the rollers, and as you develop the ability to ride them proficiently you will find that you can complete just about any effort you can think of making it possible to execute a full warm upon them. They will allow you to complete long aerobic warm-ups, short sprints, resistance training efforts, resistance warm-up efforts, and so on.


Unless you’re planning on using your rollers for strength-endurance efforts, or efforts that require resistance (as you would with a mag trainer or ergo), we would encourage you to purchase a set of rollers that are extremely easy to ride with very little resistance.


Why?


Because this will allow you to neurally develop pedaling efficiency without acquiring too much fatigue.


We also like our athletes to use rollers for recovery purposes.  


If the rollers naturally have higher levels of resistance (the rollers themselves are hard to turn over) then you won’t be able to effectively use them for recovery purposes.

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