Get 2010 Started On The Right Track To
Ride At Your "Highest Potential"
Following one of our indoor trainer regiment is the main ingredient in taking your cycling and fitness effort to the next level. It is a sure way to build and improve your cadence/spinning, climbing, pacing, and sprinting capabilities. By taking the step to improve on each of the mentioned cycling apparatuses, you are improving your overall skill level, thus propelling you to ride at the front of the pack.
As you may notice, the respective Cycling Classification comes with its own recommended indoor training regiment. You may further notice that in each of the training, different intensity efforts are recommended for different days base on your Classification. The intensity level is in place to give the body time to adjust and recover from the work load being applied. Base on your individual threshold, the low, moderate, and high intensity is defined. What is moderate intensity for you, may not be the same for someone else.
Low intensity is your nominal effort where you can easily spin without much resistance encountered during cadence.
Moderate intensity is above nominal effort with light resistance during cadence that you can perform for extender period of time.
High intensity is working close to your maximum threshold with moderate to high resistance during cadence.
During the early phases of your indoor training (the first 6 weeks), high intensity
indoor training is not recommended. We at GP Sports along with our panel of Sports
Physicians believe the body and its muscle structure need time to adjust to the training
regiment. In addition, the training recommendation is also based on the fact that
the cycling season is approximately 10-
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Your “Highest Potential” is your ability to perform at your best at any moment in time within your individual and respective activity; base on the amount of time vested in preparing you for that time. Lastly, your “Highest Potential” is the blueprint and bedrock from which you athletically perform. Learn more about what it means to really perform at your Highest Potential.
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