“Would it not be more beneficial to simply push a large gear (if on a trainer) or doing steep hills. I personally have gotten more out of doing 28% grade repeats for 2 hours than doing any sort of lifting – Andrew Coggan / Ric Stern seems to think weight training is useless / determintal
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Do you ever consider doing a session on an indoor trainer (spinning or hometrainer) instead of cancelling an outdoor training session due to bad weather? Training in cold, bad weather is probably not good for you. Your performance goes down, your motivation goes down, and your bike gets dirty. Most riders don’t like that. Good
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Cycling in the winter time is not always the funniest thing in the World. Nevertheless, serious cyclists need to train in that period too, and my experience is that it is a good idea to follow a structured training program. Here a some tips for the winter cycling period that hopefully will make you more successful.
I use the off-season to set new goals for the upcoming season. When you have something to look forward to, there is so much more motivation on the days when cycling is not the most attractive thing to do (rain, snow, wind etc.)
There is a more comprehensive article about off-season cycling tips, where you can get more information about what you should do before the winter season starts.
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When you start your cycling career, central adaptations increase your performance rapidly in the first three months. After one year of training you will discover that it takes more time to gain improvements. Now you will have to think more about how to train to keep improving. At this time improvements are often due to peripheral adaptations.
When you have trained seriously for a couple of years, you will experience that more training is needed before you get significant improvements. At this time you get the feeling of a training vacuum. You train more than you have ever done before, but your form does not change at all.
This is a critical moment in every serious riders´ career. The common outcome is that you sooner or later realize that you are not making further progress with the current program. You take the consequences and start making things different. This could be quitting, switching coach, switching club, different training methods, more training, less training, new bike, new wheels, eating nutritional supplements or getting so desperate that you take drugs. But often you will not realize that the problem is a training vacuum, because you have optimized cycling performance through proper training, eating and resting. Instead you victimize your coach, club or material because your performance has reached a plateau.
In the final part of your career cycling efficiency, tactics and experiences play a bigger role. You will use your knowledge about race tactics to eliminate eventually stronger opponents. You can win races without being the strongest rider, but making the correct moves at the correct moments, because of your gut feeling.
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If you’re looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the road cyclist in your life, look no further! We’ve put together a list of our top picks that are sure to put a smile on their face. From gifts that will help them train harder to those that will make their post-ride recovery more comfortable,
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