Posts Tagged ‘threshold’
Improve Your Threshold Power to Improve Your Gravel cycling Speed and Comfort
Improve Your Threshold Power to Improve Your Gravel Cycling Speed and Comfort Gravel racing on bicycles requires building as big an FTP, or functional threshold power, as possible in order to maintain your power during long races. Most of the time, gravel races are between 30 and several hundred miles. As an older guy, I…
Read MoreImprove Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals
Improve Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals Most types of cycling training will bring results. Whether you’re doing endurance riding or VO2max intervals, you’re going to improve your fitness. Understanding the differences between the types of training can help you tailor your training to your specific goals and needs. Each type of interval targets…
Read MoreAchieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds
Achieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds As regular everyday cyclists and runners, we need to maximize our training time. That means we need to understand how to structure our training to get the most adaptation out of the least amount of training. To do that, we need to know how hard and…
Read MoreInterval Training for Cycling: Unlocking Your Full Potential
Interval Training for Cycling: Unlocking Your Full Potential We talk a lot about different kinds of intervals for cycling training, but we don’t always talk about why we do them! What is the value of doing intervals in the first place? Why do we want to make our riding harder? Well, you don’t really need…
Read MoreMastering Threshold Interval Training: HIIT-Style Workouts
Mastering Threshold Interval Training: HIIT-Style Workouts The Midwest Gravel Tour kicked off at the start of March at the Dirty South Roubaix in southern Illinois on Saturday. My training has been different over the winter this year, more polarized with slow endurance and more threshold intensity. In the past, I put in long miles with…
Read More