Each Sunday I’ll post a Smart Trainer session that you can do in about 60 minutes to enhance your cycling.
Workouts that provide high training stress on your body provide a lot of fitness improvements. This workout provides repeated efforts close to or above your VO2 max and is perfect for short-course triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Spanish Needle -2
Training at a range of intensities within a short period of time, provides the body with a great training stimulus to promote improvements in fitness. Some of the reps within this workout are done at a low cadence to work on strength and the other half of them are done at a more traditional race-like cadence. There is a wide variety of stimuli within this workout that it will provide fitness for all cyclists (road, triathlon and MtB) and although very non-specific is best suited to the off-season.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Meredeth Kessler’s Everything Ends And This Will Too
Workouts that provide high training stress on your body provide a lot of fitness improvements. This workout provides repeated efforts at close to or above your VO2 max and is perfect for short-course triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Spanish Needle -3
Exposure to anaerobic efforts (where oxygen is not predominantly used) helps develop the anaerobic system and builds tolerance and resilience to strenuous efforts. This workout is designed to increase your anaerobic load and avoid boredom in what is otherwise a predominantly aerobic workout. It is an excellent workout for all triathletes, cyclists, and mountain bikers, as it is not too taxing on the anaerobic system.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Garmin’s Workout Recommendation #1
VO2 max is a key determinant of aerobic capacity and therefore endurance performance. This workout will help build and develop your VO2 max and tolerate some lactic acid and is suitable for road cyclists, triathletes, and mountain bikers.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Grin and Bear It
Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an important part of training. The aim of this workout is to improve your ability to repeat hard efforts with minimal recovery. This session is great for triathletes, and road cyclists, and can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, it will help enhance your VO2 Max.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Shayne Gaffney’s 2 By 2
Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an important part of training. This session is great for triathletes, and road cyclists, and can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon. Use this session in the last week before an important event as part of your taper.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Threshold Taper #2
Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an important part of training. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon. Use this session in the last week before an important event as part of your taper.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session – Threshold Taper #1
How do you measure intensity? So many coaches use so many different methods, power, Heart Rate (HR), three zones, five zones, seven zones?? I’ve been planning a series of weekly articles for over a year now, looking at what different coaches prescribe (or used to prescribe) and why. This article is part of a series that is exploring how other coaches determine intensity, using Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan’s Training and Racing With A Power Meter book as the primary reference.
View More Hunter Allen & Andrew Coggan’s Cycling Intensity
Preparing your body for the intensity that will be replicated and sustained during an event is an important part of training. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: 6x 8 Tempo, Threshold