Do you want to level up your cycling this off-season? Then this episode is a must-listen, with detailed and practical guidance for your bike training during the base training phase, presented by Scientific Triathlon coaches Mikael Eriksson and Jack Hutchens.
HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY TOPICS:
- Key training principles for cycling in the off-season
- What types of workouts do we recommend for this time of year?
- How important is training volume on the bike?
- Riding on different types of bikes, and riding indoors vs. outdoors
- Bike fitting, aero testing, and position optimisation
- Listener questions
- ...and Jack's "Surprise Segment": goal setting in triathlon
DETAILED EPISODE SHOWNOTES:
- We have detailed shownotes for all of our episodes. The shownotes are basically the podcast episode in written form, that you can read in 5-10 minutes. They are not transcriptions, but they are also not just surface-level overviews. They provide detailed insights and timestamps for each episode, and are great especially for later review, after you've already listened to an episode.
- The shownotes for today's episode can be found at www.scientifictriathlon.com/base3/
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