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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Riding at or around your Threshold will bring up both your ability to sustain high-intensity effort (as well as your suffering). 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.
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