Attacking Your Weakness- The Bike
By bethany
This is the fourth article in our Attacking Your Weakness series. Be sure to check out our other articles on improving your swim, run, and overall fitness.
Is your cycling leg the one that’s dragging you down? Cold weather is no reason to opt out of cycling! In fact, the winter is the perfect time to take your cycling up a notch with some focused indoor training. Like the other articles, we’ll assume that your primary goal is to improve your cycling for triathlon and that you’re not a pure cyclist.
What should I avoid?
There are several different ways people try to improve their cycling during the off-season.One popular option is to pop in a movie and spin at zone 1 for several hours. For the average triathlete with 10-15 hours to train, this is not the best use of time. For the same rule of overcompensation applies to cycling the same as it does everything else. Basically, compensation just says in order to produce positive changes in fitness you work hard, then rest, which leads to subsequent improvement. Unless you’re coming from the couch, you will be hard pressed to gain significant physiological adaptions from this …read more
Source: Energy Lab
