When I first started training, I had the tendency mentioned below despite my coach’s exhortations. I’d be scheduled for a rest day, but feel so good and want to ride with friends that I’d ignore the rest day for the most part. Guess what? Even though I thought I hadn’t spent too much energy the day before, I was unable to do the next hard workout to the degree necessary to make it as effective as it could have been. Eventually, I caught on when the hard days were simply undoable if I didn’t recover the day before. Don’t waste the time like I did.

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PezCycling News – What’s Cool In Pro Cycling

Chances are you already “ride hard.” However, many ‘recreational’ cyclists (defined as training 6-12 hours per week) tend to ride ‘too hard’ on easy days, and ‘not hard enough’ on high intensity days. Therefore, they end up riding the exact same intensity day-in and day-out. This intensity generally ends up being too high to qualify as aerobic training, yet is too low to work as high-intensity training. Overall, the end result is minimal ability to significantly build aerobic reserves, elevate lactate threshold, or anaerobic capacity.

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