Struggle — training tips
Training 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 lingering, read our rituals to ensure you're fighting fit during Struggle training and you emerge from winter with a solid base ahead of the sportive season...
Training Tips: 12 Top Tips for Turbo Comfort
Training 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 feeling restless and fidgety. Here’s what we do to optimise winter training for a sportive.
1. Set Up Indoors
Today’s technology makes indoor training more efficient, effective - and enjoyable - meaning you can train hard throughout the winter and roll into spring ready to smash the season. Spend time planning and setting up your optimal winter training rig. Check out:
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Training Tips: The truth about tapering for a sportive
Sharpening the pencil in the lead up to a sportive allows us the best possible chance of clocking up an awesome time. But could tapering for a sportive limit our fitness potential? We ask the expert...
Head Physiologist and Coach at OTE Performance Centre and Founder of VitFor personalised online training, Craig Stevenson said: “Tapering can be more individual than most people think. It is something you need to practice to try and find the sweet spot...