devashish_paul wrote:
Hey, I have noticed that my hip flexors, glutes and hamstrings get much more "tight" from hard intervals on the trainer (and same thing doing hard intervals on rowing machine) vs doing same or higher intensity intervals outdoors.
Around 12 years ago, I found the solution to this was jogging for 5-10 min after every super hard session on the trainer (an unnatural things to do more so than outdoors). Indoors I am much more static sitting in a fixed position and almost all is at high intensity vs outdoors. Doing the jogging allows the spine/hip flexors/glutes/hamstrings to swivel a bit on our center line restoring things to a more natural range of motion that otherwise gets more and more restricted with continuous trainer time.
In this self experiment of 1 I actually found this out during the 100/100 when I had to do extra minutes of running to make my daily quota and I noticed a correlation to better recovery and body feeling if I did short transition runs than just cooldown riding on the the trainer (you never unwind the compressed hip flexors in the trainer position). I am almost 55 now and been doing that since I was 43 and it helps how my body feels. Almost every one of my indoor bike or rowing machine sessions is followed by jogging for a short period.
Thanks, this makes sense. I ride the tri bike while Zwifting. I think the compressed range of motion at hard effort is damaging.
To your point, running actually provides relief!