Team Bottrill Women's Top 3 Winter Cycling Training Tips
With the launch of Team Bottrill - VANGUARD Women we thought it would be good to see how our ladies get through their winter training. Team rider Stephanie Post gives us her take.
Winter training doesn’t naturally fill riders with enthusiasm; less daylight, dodgy road conditions, a never-ending supply of Christmas food temptations, the almost inevitable increase in the turbo training hours...! Here's how our girls keep winter training motivation levels high, build on their fitness and remain focused for 2018's racing season.
Develop your own motivational tricks.
Let’s face it - we're not robots and some days all you want to do is binge on chocolate or go down the pub for a gin...or two. So for those days when you need an extra incentive:
It appears that most of our girls use the incentive of food to help. Hone those chocolate cravings to help enforce some calorie burning! Try replacing those boring energy gels with left over stocking filler sweets!
Get everything prepared for early morning work outs so there are less boundaries between bed and your bike.
Or even better…incorporate training into your commute. One of our TB riders religiously makes a 4:30 am commute to work and back on their winter-kitted TT bike.
Stats don’t lie. Use your fitness stats on computer training packages such as Training Peaks to show you the downfall of missing sessions and not hitting targets.
Competitive edge. Remind yourself of your targets for next
year and of your competition. Use this to make every session count.
2. Variation in training:
Longer, lower intensity rides are needed to gain a sound aerobic base.
