tack4
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Post by tack4 on May 25, 2016 19:16:56 GMT
A club member said to me some time ago if i dont like hills ...i should do more hills. after last night club ride and knocking 1 min 11 sec of a previous climb i was well chuffed so... tonight did more hills infact same one three times this is one of the toughest climbs in our loca area and i did the majority of the steep bit each time and slow spin back down to recover. www.strava.com/activities/587775164is this the type of thing i should be doing weekly or twice weekly ?
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Post by Rocket on May 25, 2016 19:31:12 GMT
Daily if you are serious. Aim for 700,000 ft per year.
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tack4
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Post by tack4 on May 25, 2016 19:34:48 GMT
Daily if you are serious. Aim for 700,000 ft per year. ouch!!!
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Post by erictherat on May 25, 2016 21:09:26 GMT
Nice part of the world to ride
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Post by r0b1et on May 26, 2016 9:04:17 GMT
That will largely depend how serious you are, how much you are really pushing yourself on the rep and your time. If your target is to get better at climbing hills like that, I'd be looking at doing 5-6 reps, twice a week. You want to pace your reps so the last one is REALLY hard, likely the 2nd last the fastest. You'll likely need a rest day/easy day the day after if you did it right. Probably worth making a strava segment for the hill since none seems to exist. I really ought to work on my climbing, but my focus is TTs, so more after raw power at the moment.
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Post by Radchenister on May 26, 2016 9:22:35 GMT
The BHF program has one or two hill sessions a week, mixed in between easier rides and lengthy rides; TrainerRoad varies the amount of hill simulation depending on the type of event that you're targeting. r0b1et 's view is pretty much my view and what I've done at times, it also depends on your training cycle and seasons / periodisation etc; a mix of different hill gradients and lengths / profiles will work different muscles - remember that it also depends on what type of rider you are and your riding style, plus what events you're doing, plus how serious you want to get. If leisure riding, then just riding about round hills will do fine. Also time constraints, I quite like whipping on the headphones and doing an hour of fasted hill repeats before breakfast sometimes as time efficient, outdoor gym style, i.e. cut out the flat stuff and just work hill reps. If you're riding big hills every day, then you'll be doing them every day anyway, if you're crit racing or doing TTs, then it's not so important if they're flat courses; if you're just after getting round sportives, then it might help, but it's only really as important as the percentage of hills you need to do. There's no one size fit's all approach, people need to work out their own route.
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