Base Training helps your Riding Learn cycle training tips on how to correctly perform base training for cyclists. 

Cycle Base training is fundamental to any cyclist’s coaching and training plan. The cyclists base training improves your cardiovascular systems and helps you become a more efficient rider.

When I have cyclists come up and ask me why they aren’t riding really well and the first question I ask then is how long have they been riding?

It’s not uncommon to have them respond with a time frame under a year and a half.

On hearing this I quickly explain to them that cycling is an endurance sport just like marathon running. That to be riding at an elite level they are looking at three years of cycling.

It does take this long for a cyclist to develop the strength and aerobic capacity required to Ride well.  

Regardless of whether you are competing in recreation rides or cycle racing, base training is a very important part of your training.  

There are ways to fast track these three years. If the cyclist comes into cycling from other endurance sport like for instance long distance running or rowing they can reduce this down to perhaps one or two years if they undertake proper training. Or, alternatively, if the cyclists is to focus purely on short distance events like short distance triathlons, sprinting or criterium events.

 

Sometimes these three years “of preparation” for a roadie seems a little daunting at first, but by chunking these three years down into achievable goals along the way, focus can be maintained with daily, monthly and year goals.

But more on this later as I’ll be discussing this in separate article.

I’m here to talk about the aerobic base and how important it is for you as a cyclist.