Base Training Mistakes & Why #cyclingcoach

The biggest base training mistakes I see comes from riders who don't train consistently through the winter and they put off structured training until the spring. These days, the riders you want to be, the ones standing on the podium last season, are the ones that are training year round and they've already started building their base this winter. Another huge mistake comes from riders spending all winter on virtual riding platforms, slamming hard intervals, hard group rides, indoor races, often only riding four to 5 hours per week, but feeling just wrecked. And those rides feel productive, but they are not building your base.

They're not long enough to be considered base training, and they're not hard enough to be considered true interval training.

The base training advice you’ve been getting from social media and indoor riding platforms is wrong. Win a Year of the CoachCat App by starting a Free Trial here → /app

Riding only Zone 2 all winter doesn’t work for cyclists with less than 8 hours a week to train. Riding hard indoors doesn’t work either.

In this video, Coach Frank Overton (aka BigCat) breaks down how to build a REAL aerobic base on just 4–8 hours per week, using the Sweet Spot training methodology he has pioneered for the past 20 years.

You’ll learn:

1️⃣ Where base training actually fits in your annual plan

2️⃣ Why Zone 2-only training fails when volume is low

3️⃣ The biggest base-training mistakes cyclists make indoors

4️⃣ Why Sweet Spot delivers more aerobic gains per minute

5️⃣ How to measure base fitness using OTS & Level

6️⃣ What a real month of base training looks like (calendar example)

This is the same approach we’ve used for over 20 years to help time-crunched amateur cyclists get stronger, more durable, and faster without burning out.

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👉 Start your free trial here: https://www.FasCatCoaching.com 00:00 The Biggest Base Training Mistakes 04:43 The Science: Zone 2 v Sweet Spot 07:35 Example Base Training Plan 09:01 4 Base Training Guidelines 10:22 Win a Year of the CoachCat APP ‼️