With Tour Down Under on television, January winding down and the impending cycling season looming on the very near horizon (Tour of the Battenkill is only about 70 days away) many cyclists will start to feel the time crunch on their training. The walls feel like they are closing in on your fitness and that target date on the calendar gets closer and closer, so you do the only thing you can think of: increase your intensity hoping to kick start your fitness. The question is, are you going to implement that plan properly? How much is too much? What happens when you lean too hard on that high intensity plan?
On this edition of the Tailwind Coaching Podcast, I'll discuss:
- What is considered high intensity?
- How we get in trouble by relying on high intensity training?
- Physiological adaptations of high intensity and low intensity training and where they overlap.
- How the body builds and adapts to training and overtraining.
- What factors influence your training and recovery.
Next time, we'll figure out how to control the trap that is high intensity training and how to use it to accelerate our fitness instead of destroying it.
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And don't forget: Tour of the Battenkill is April 5th and 6th. You can get my new, revised and improved 20 week Battenkill Training Plan in my store, and be well on your way to the podium. And if you've got other goals this season, check out my modular training plans in my online store and get started on the path towards killer fitness today. And don't forget to save 10% with the coupon code in this week's podcast.
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