Choose the Right Distance When Cycling

If the training sessions are correctly carried out, cyclists should be content with four or six hundred kilometres per week. There are a lot of cyclists who pedal more, but many of those extra kilometres are totally ineffective. Those kilometres could be seen as "placebo kilometres" as in they make you feel better, but they lead to no results whatsoever. It is better to compare the number of kilometres to the time registered or you should have a structured schedule, connecting different kinds of sessions correctly, alternating the long races with recovery periods and divided training sessions.

You should have anaerobic sessions and replace the endurance ones. It is also important that you take a long enough break between your sprints so that you can recharge your batteries. This kind of training requires a special level of attention. You should include it in your ordinary training session in such a way that it doesn't come the next day after an endurance one.

These would only be some suggestions. Sometimes, a serious schedule is based on time which we don't have. However, one can train without any problems and they can evolve a lot if they train three times a week. In order to do this, you have to give up on the light sessions and train three times a week at a much higher level. For instance, you can train for about thirty or forty minutes and then have thirty minutes in the endurance mode. The third training session could be a combination of uphill sprints and flat ones, but you have to make sure you combine them in such a way that you can rest for thirty minutes at the end.


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