Top 5 - Effective Cycle Commuter Workouts

Here's how to get fit fast on your daily ride to work.

[ogden]

When you commute in full kit and a full aero bike 😂

[teuast]

I ride to school every morning. It's a 4.5k route with 600 feet or just shy of 200 meters of gain, and I do it with a backpack, in basketball shorts, in a T-shirt and usually a jacket, on a full-suspension mountain bike made in 1998, in an average time of just under 20 minutes (was more like 26 when I started!). I don't usually see other people out riding on my route, but on the rare occasion that I do, very little gives me quite as much satisfaction as sprinting past guys in lycra on actual road bikes.

Still, though, I'm REALLY looking forward to being able to afford a road bike.

[bloodsord]

I live in Chicago and my commute to downtown and back consists of 12mi ride and 30-45 red light stops, sharp bursts on green and drafting behind cars at 30mph. I don't like riding between parked cars where I can get doored and traffic that can run me over, so I like staying in the middle and just drafting cars. best workout ever!

[vivoslibertos]

The commuters here are cycling and triathlon athletes where road is their office LOL

My experience is workout on the ride and nap at the office, I am glad that my bosses is japanese where their concept of sleep at the office means you are a hard worker LOL

[KeenxLimit]

Those commuter races are serious business. Nothing like a long train of 10+ strangers barreling down the bike path smoking the casual commuters.

[hoim]

"fakenger with single speed" ! that's a good one !

[fraggsta]

practical advice I can take away from this video:

Ride harder, and for longer.

[DavidCulshawmer-r]

some good advice there to help joe public improve his/her fitness while going to work :)

[raiden]

ctfu number 5 is Fucking great just realized we've doing this for a while LOL

[someguy]

or maybe convert to single speed with a slightly harder gear than you would use on the flats without wind. Even accelerating to a somewhat useable speed quickly enough without annoying motorists is almost a sprint everytime

[patrikkovacik]

Seemingly commuters are the same as cyclists on training rides. No bags, no trafic, no stuff.

[craigpaterson]

I do fartlek efforts between telegraph poles, sprint one rest one

[simonrano]

And what if I don't commute in lycra ... ?

Video should be named "training with short rides"

[pwnedbyfishies]

bikeradar hating on the single speed riders hahaha

[bloodsord]

oh, and this video is not about commutes. I'd like to see you do any of that in middle of traffic. and I don't mean some god-forgotten little city. do it in a metropolitan with thick traffic and asshole drivers.