First workout on the TacX Flow

First 45 minute workout on the TacX Flow finished and it felt great. It is not the same as being out in the fresh air with natural resistance from all the good climbs we have here, but it sure beats my old spinning bike any time a day :)

The setup was very easy and the self adjustment of the break seemed to work smoothly. For my first session I did a easy warm up and cool down period with a 4x4 min interval session in between. As this was my first time on the Flow I took it easy but I still worked up a good sweat and heart rate. I have not connected a heart rate monitor yet but hopefully I will be able to connect using the Polar heart rate monitor that is on it's way in the mail.

The TacX monitor is easy to use to control the resistance and it is nice and easy to see the performance on the display. I will have to use it a bit more before I can give a better review but for my first session it seemed quite good.

For the coming week I will try it out more and then start setting up a workout plan to follow. Hopefully I can get some good input on the web :)

P.S

Finished of with 25 minutes of Jillian 30 Day Shred :)

Happy New Year and Status

2012 is upon us and unfortunately I have not managed to follow the very good flow I was in back in September. I have not been exercising much and the diet has gone down the drain both of which has resulted i a gain of 9.5 kg since September and it stopped at 135.2 kg.

It was terrible seeing this on the bathroom scale and to be honest I did feel embarrassed. But moreover I got very angry with myself because I know how much hard work was behind those 10 kg.

So what to do? Well the only thing I can do is to roll up my sleeves and get started again and in doing so I should at least take what was positive the last year.

• I lost 11kg
• I got in much better shape
• I finished my first bike ride Bergen - Voss (165km)

Before starting back up again for 2012 I have tried to understand why I did not manage to keep on the track with my training and diet once the fall set in. I think the answer is very simple. I really enjoy exercising on my bike and I have going to the gym, so once it got to cold and wet to go out on the bike everything fall apart. Once I did not exercise as much anymore the diet plan also started to get harder and harder to follow. 

So for Christmas my beautiful wife surprised me with a Christmas present that I hope is part of a solution to get me going again, through the winter. She got me a TacX Flow ergotrainer that I can use with my ordinary road racer bike :). I now have it set up and ready to use and I will come back with a review of my first experience with the TacX Flow ergotrainer. You can read about the TacX flow on the TacX web page here:

http://www.tacxflow.com/en_home.html

So, hopefully the shock over what was displayed on the bathroom weight and the vitamin boost from the present from my wife will get me back on track for 2012. I will also make sure I become more active on the blog again, which I  also stopped updating. When I used it, it worked exactly as I hoped it would as it was a way of "forcing" me to do well as everyone knew how I was doing. I think if I had started to write on the blog that I was not doing well with my diet and I was not  exercising as much I would have picked myself up much earlier. 

Hopefully people will start follow me and be an inspiration to me in 2012. 

Happy New Year