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Cyclocross race XC level 1

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Cyclocross race XC level 1

Author

Nick de Meyer British Triathlon Federation level 3 Coach, Training Bible Master endurance coach

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Length

6 Weeks

Typical Week

2 Strength, 4 MTB, 1 Day Off

Longest Workout

3:00 hrs

Plan Specs

cycling cyclocross beginner intermediate

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Summary

This is a progressive cyclocross cycling training plan aimed at 90-120 mins of cross country racing. It has 2 sessions a week of core strength, progressing through the weeks into more muscular strength workouts.
The bike sessions are designed to get you race ready in 6 weeks.Training 4-5 times a week, being interval and hiit training based they progressively increase the amount of time you're working at race pace over the 6 week plan
There is some high intensity interval training included to increase your anaerobic capacity, aswell as some skills based sessions and endurance training to maintain your base fitness

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Training Load By Week
Average Weekly Breakdown
Average Weekly Training Hours: 06:55
Training Load By Week
Average Weekly Training Hours: 06:55
Average Weekly Breakdown

Nick de Meyer

Sound Coaching

Nick has been a Level 3 British Triathlon Coach for 10 years, and has been a master endurance coach with Training Bible Coaching UK in that time. He is also a Training Peaks Level 1 Coach, and was formerly a Regional Development Coach for the South East region for British Triathlon.

Alongside his online coaching business, Nick also runs Speedy Swimming which specialise in 1-2-1 front crawl technique lessons, endless pool swim video analysis, swim clinics and group swim sessions

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Sample Day 1

0:30:00
Core Cycling

after a warm up do 2 sets of 15

Sample Day 2

1:00:00
Anaerobic Capacity Intervals

Good warm up working up through the zones with less time in each zone as you draw towards zone 5-5
Main session
Zone 6 Intervals
2 sets of 4 x 1 min On 1 min OFF, Full Gas > zone 5 watts; 5 min in b/w sets

Sample Day 3

0:30:00
Core Stability Pilates

after warming up on a rowing machine for 1km do 2x20 reps of each exercise

Sample Day 4

0:45:00
hiit 1: 30 secs hr#5b

After a long warm up building through your heart rate zones to 80% og max hr do
5 x 30 seconds at zone 5 with 1-minute recoveries.

Sample Day 6

2:00:00
base building XC

ride in zone 1-2 easy base building for 2 hours

Sample Day 7

1:25:00
30-30 mtb micro bursts

warm up
20 mins easy riding 56-75% ftp
main set
3-5 x 10 mins ( min recovery) micro bursts
30 secs "on" @150% ftp
30 secs "off" coasting 0% ftp
cool down
15 mins easy riding 56-75% ftp

Sample Day 8

0:40:00
Core HIIT

after warming up on a rowing machine for 1km HIIT is high intensity interval training which is really good at burning fat and boosting your metabolism whilst building functional strength
do 2x 4 mins as 45 secs on 15 off with each set of 4 exercises. then repeat

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