This six week XC interval training plan begins by working on your race start and quickly moves into Zone 6 Anaerobic interval workouts. Because XC Mountain Biking is all about short (20 second – 1 minute) anaerobic power output! There are endurance mountain bike hammer rides on the weekend for endurance training and technical skills practice. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays are for 1 minuters, VO2’s, threshold and the diabolical Tabatas.
You’ll start and finish the 6 weeks with a Field Test to set your training zones via the included FasCat Wattage and Heart Rate Zones Sheet. This way you’ll be sure to ride at the correct efforts and you can measure your improvement too! Plus, this plan includes all the “marginal gains”. For recovery this plan has got you covered with all the “marginal gains” details to get even faster: Recovery Techniques, Rest Days, a FREE YogaGlo account, Foundations, and best of all, Strength and Conditioning – all you need is a physical therapy style rubber band and MOTIVATION!
Did we say Nino Schurter’s Secret Training ?!?! Oh yes: and we’ve sourced out how you can set up your very own circuit at home just like Nino.
Questions about our Intervals for XC Mountain Biking Training Plan? See our FAQ below or email/call: help@fascatcoaching.com or 720.406.7444
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed: if you are unsatisfied with the plan, your performance, anything, we will refund your plan at anytime. Example Workout:
Diego Furlan –
Great plan!!!!
Amazing how your legs feel, and your power output! I mean, just amazing!
The intervals are awesomely hard and nice, the race pace rides are fun, so, what else should you want from a plan that gets you where you want, while having fun.
Again, I had amazing legs after this plan!
Lacey Rivette, RDN –
Stoked to hear this Diego. That is exactly the way you should feel when you are on a bike… fast AND fun!
If you liked this plan, you are going to love the intervals in SS part 4 that you just purchased 🙂
Sundance Stureman –
This is a great plan. At first I was skeptical that i could get through two and three day blocks of riding. After just 2 weeks my legs adapted to the higher zones. I FTFP’d and made some great gains! This is a fantastic plan and I highly recommend!
Elliot –
An excellent plan that really helps with the explosive starts and high intensity of xc racing. Highly recommended.
John Mackenzie –
Due to CV-19 I haven’t been able to use this for it’s intended purpose, however I have still found it to be excellent. I have used it to prime myself for some local Strava efforts, what else am I going to do with all this fitness;-)? I have set pretty significant 1 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute power records since following it, will do a 20 min test soon. The progressive overload is spot on and I love the foundation and yoga Youtube videos for the recovery side of things. I think this is my 5th Fascat plan now, they are super well structured and very reasonably priced. Love it.
Erik –
My base is pretty solid but i always had problems when going into the red/vo2max zone. In a race, i always blew up after the first lap or when riding in red too long.
There are a lot of trainingplans and after some research i went for this one. Some of the workouts really hurt. For me especially the race start ones. But after six weeks i ended the plan with a big race.
At the race start i inmediatly went full gas from the start en could keep up with the first group. After the first 10 minutes i recoverd well and could hold a high steady pace for the remaining 90 minutes. Ended up as 8th where i normally ended up around 15-25.
Felt extremly good since i could recover in race from the small sprints and tricky points. The plan worked out really good and i will use it again to mantain my form during the season.
MIGUEL AMAR –
Great combination of exercises to make you strong, fast and confident for your next race. I got the expected results after completed the program and now I am looking to do another program!
filip.photography –
really great plan! impressive how i feel after this plan!