BKool Online Training System
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Once set-up, BKool’s BCycling unit provides a solid training base
provide. Our Garmin accessories all work well with the BKool software including cadence sensor, heart rate strap and GPS head unit.
Essentially that is it, and you are ready to roll. Having set this up you can literally
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go onto the BKool site, load a session or a video from their fairly extensive library and then initiate the BSim software and away you go. You are training.
Take a fitness test…
However, they do encourage you to set your level by taking a fitness test first which is a 20-minute maximum exertion test that they call a UPF test. Don’t be too put off by your initial results; though it gives a representation of fitness level, there is a knack to doing these tests and, with practice at the technique of actually maintaining the effort, you will do better.
To complete the loop and bring your outdoor rides into the equation, you can also download the BKool app to your mobile phone or use a Garmin or Polar head unit to record your outdoor rides and then transfer them onto the BKool website, which becomes a one stop shop to record and monitor all of your training, outdoor or indoor.
Online means infinitely expandable
In so doing the potential of this system is huge and the turbo element is especially important when you consider that most of the growth we are seeing in cycling comes from time poor, office based professionals who need convenient ways to train. The unique and really appealing thing about Bkool is that it is all online; assuming you have an internet connection, you have a huge library of videos and training sessions at your
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BKool gives every user a personal home page with details of your most recent sessions
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