RETHINK YOUR WINTER TRAINING IN 2025
Traditional winter training plans consist of hours and hours of steady miles; thought to be ideal preparation for endurance cyclists. But even today’s pro riders are ditching the daily grind...
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Training Tips: 5 Zwift Sportive Training SessionsTraining Tips: 5 Zwift Sportive Training Sessions
We're excited to bring you five sportive-specific indoor training sessions to upload to your Zwift Workouts menu, which have been expertly created by Coach Tom Townsend of Downing Cycling.
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Training Tips: Winter Bike Check ListTraining Tips: Winter Bike Check List
Workshop Manager at Chevin Cycles, Yorkshire's leading chain of bike stores, gives us his top tips to check our bike is winter ready.
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Training Tips: Training Ideas For Icy DaysTraining Tips: Training Ideas For Icy Days
With icy conditions forecast over the weekend, stay safe by maxing out indoor training sessions. Here’s our top tips to train for a Struggle sportive on an icy day. Take a Test...
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Training Tips: Strength Training Plan For CyclistsTraining Tips: Strength Training Plan For Cyclists
Ask old pros and the purist of roadies how to become a better cyclists and they’ll tell you to “ride your bike!” But pick apart the training plans of new kids...
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Training Tips: How to improve your cycling cadenceTraining Tips: How to improve your cycling cadence
Winter is the perfect time of year to focus your training on improving technique and iron out any bad habits. Team Struggle shares their top turbo session to help improve your...
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Training Tips: 10 Cycling Rituals to Avoid Winter IllnessTraining Tips: 10 Cycling Rituals to Avoid Winter Illness
During winter training in severe weather on dirty roads, it’s important for cyclist to armour the immune system and avoid bugs, viruses and infections. With Flu season upon us and Covid...
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Training Tips: 12 Top Tips for Turbo ComfortTraining Tips: 12 Top Tips for Turbo Comfort
Are you sitting comfortably? If you’re increasing the hours spend cycling indoors during lockdown, consider optimising your position and comfort to avoid injury, stop unnecessary discomfit and max-out your training time.
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Training Tips: Winter Off-Season Advice for Sportive TrainingTraining Tips: Winter Off-Season Advice for Sportive Training
Winter is the off-season; time to rest, relax, recover - and indulge - before we press the reboot button and ramp up winter training. However, it’s often difficult to enjoy winter without...
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Training Tips: Quick leg strength gym workout for cyclistsTraining Tips: Quick leg strength gym workout for cyclists
Our resident strength and conditioning expert Byron Spence sets us an awesome at-home working to strength your climbing legs while you're stuck inside.
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Training Tips: Cyclists Guide to CaffeineTraining Tips: Cyclists Guide to Caffeine
It wasn’t long ago caffeine appeared on the WADA banned substances list, which says something for its widely acknowledged performance enhancing capabilities. Thankfully our favourite morning brew is now legal...
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Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?Training Tips: Are you Overtraining for your sportive?
In search of structure, and in the absence of most other pastimes, exercise has become more prevalent in our daily routine during lockdown. And with an almighty goal like a Struggle...
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Sportive hydration tipsSportive hydration tips
Stay hydrated on sportive day with our advice from Precision Hydration. Their expert sweat test helps cyclists come up with a bespoke hydration strategy for training and during a big sportive like...
