Plans
Trainer and outdoors: how to combine them
The trainer is ideal for structure and control; outdoors adds technique, endurance, enjoyment, and specificity.
Recommended steps
- Use the trainer for structured power-based sessions.
- Take advantage of outdoors for long rides, technique, and real-world adaptation.
- Do not try to make every outdoor workout as exact as the trainer.
- Keep weekly indoor and outdoor load coherent.
- If an outdoor ride was very hard, adjust the next workout.
- The plan should adapt to real life, not the other way around.