24 Week Off Season for Triathletes

• 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%! 

 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.   Weeks 13, 14, & 15 have the 3 > 4 > 5 minute VO2 Max Interval Progression to push your threshold even higher 🚀💪

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Our Coaching Consultations offers additional coaching advice on your data, which training plans to follow along with real world practical expert coaching advice from the FasCat Coaches!  

• Off-season cyclocross plan is a combination of weight lifting and sweet spot base
• 24-week plan is perfect to begin in January-March to prepare for the Spring/Summer season

This 24-week plan is perfect for the cyclocross racer to begin in January, February, or March to prepare for the Fall/Summer season. The plan is a combination of weight lifting and sweet spot ‘base building” + run conditioning. 

The plan begins with 10 weeks of cycling specific resistance training. You’ll ride, lift, and perform neuromuscular sprint work to transfer strength gains made in the gym onto the bike. Your plan also includes Running and Footwork drills + PLYOMETRICS for agility and explosiveness! 

We’ve also added weekly Yoga with a 60 day FREE YogoGlo membership so there are no excuses to miss out! Work on your balance, flexibility and core – all important for your technical skill cyclocross handling. Speaking of bike handling, your plan took a page from World & Olympic MTB Champion Nino Schurter’s 30-minute circuit training routine to further enhance your bike handling ability. There’s hip mobility and back strengthening videos for you to follow too. Ever get ‘cross back? This plans solves that!

Your off-season cyclocross training plan also has running but does NOT have jogging. Fast, explosive footwork drills are the name of the game. Tap tap tap – just like high cadence on the bike. Finally, because your functional threshold power is critical to your performance, there are two field tests one after you complete the weights to set your training zones and one at the end of the plan to measure how much faster you’ve become with 12 weeks of sweet spot training!

As a Training Plan athlete, you may want more customization of your plan which is our 1x1 coaching. We waive the $99 start up fee if you hire a coach!

• Increase power and endurance 
• Combines Weight Lifting then Sweet Spot Base Training

Complete Off Season 30 week training plan that includes 3 all new re-designed plans for 2024 / 2025 that are optimized when done in this order:

1. 3 week Fall Foundation (new for 2024 / 2025 💥)

2. 10 Weeks of Weight Lifting (new for 2024 / 2025  💥)

3. 16 Weeks of Sweet Spot (new for 2024 / 2025  💥)

Weight lifting for cycling ‘works’ and we’ve been coaching cyclists thru our 4 phase, cycling-specific resistance training program for close to 20 years.

There are four phases of the resistance training with accompanying neuromuscular sprint work to accentuate the lifting to make the weight lifting cycling specific.

You'll sweet spot up the whazoo for 16 weeks with 4 mesocycles (4 weeks each) to increase your aerobic fitness. This is your all-in-one plan for the Off-Season! Listen and learn more about the 30 week plan from the training tip and podcast here.

As a CoachCat Subscriber, you will receive a FREE  Coaching Consultation when you start a FREE Trial !

Our Coaching Consultations offers additional coaching advice on your data, which training plans to follow along with real world practical expert coaching advice from the FasCat Coaches!