Secret Training Off Season: Strength - 3 Months

• Prepare for an ultra MTB race with climbing intervals, sweet spotting and simulation rides
• Includes a taper into your race and cycling specific nutrition guidance for long events

This six week 100 mile mountain bike race plan will prep you for a grueling 100 mile mountain bike race with gobs of Sweet Spot and Threshold plus a dab of anaerobic work during the week.

The weekends are full of long rides up to 8 hours with plenty of climbing that will give you a chance to test your fueling plans as well as your saddle fit! There's also plenty of low aerobic endurance work to help you build that mitochondrial density that will make you more efficient on race day.

Over the course of the six week training plan you'll ramp up your hours up steadily to handle the long day in the saddle. We've included some of our favorite workouts (Bursts, Sweet Spot, Criss-Cross & more) to help you prepare for a great race day!

Example Events are any of the NUE Series race including Cohutta, Mohican, Bailey Hundo, High Cascades and the Shenandoah 100 to name a few 100 milers.

• Builds a Big Aerobic Base
  
• Complete 4 month Training Plan with 3 Power Tests
• new Professional Level with 18 - 26 hours / week

To begin your sweet spot base training you'll perform a Field Test to set your training zones, especially the all important sweet spot training zone!  A second test half thru your plan will measure your improvement and update your training zones and a third a final test will do the same. Athletes can expect to increase their FTP by 5 – 20%! 

This 16 week plan is all new for 2022 and combine workouts from Sweet Spot Parts 1 - 4 in a progressive optimized training plan design.  You'll start off gradually and progress in sweet spot volume each week.  

In the final mesocycle of this plan you'll be doing long sweet spot TSS rides on Saturdays and short structured 'wintertime intensity' during the work week. 

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• 2 Week Taper Plan to PEAK
  
• Improve Power Output and Minimize Fatigue
  
• Reduces Training Volume 40-60%
  
• Maintains Training Intensity

Apply our 2 week taper plan to your training calendar and achieve peak performance! As discussed in our podcast below 👇

By now you've done countless intervals in all lengths and amounts. You're in the best shape of your life and you're ready to do whatever it takes to get that big result at the end of the season. Now it's time to TAPER.

But don't stop training altogether, instead gradually decrease your training load by 40-60% each week leading up to A event. Along with the decrease in load, increase your number of rest days and maintain your intensity.