Episode 70: Our 3 Key Base-Building Rides
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As we turn the page into a new year, aerobic fitness is the name of the game in cycling and building an aerobic base is essential for creating endurance, power and speed. In this episode, we share our three essential base building rides that fit into our weekly programming, along with progressively higher intensity workouts, for our WE athletes and training plans:
- the ‘zone 2’ Aerobic Endurance Ride
- our ‘zone 3’ Aerobic Threshold Intervals
- and our ‘zone 3/4’ Aerobic Strength Intervals
These rides/workouts require most riders to SLOW DOWN in order to get faster! We share our reasons for training by heart rate in order to govern your effort and simply observing where your power is on the day. This strategy allows us to recognize positive trends of improved fitness as well as provide ‘red flags’ of potential issues that may be limiting your improvements.
This Episode’s Featured Structured Workout: Anaerobic Threshold Intervals (at 64:00 power)
We’re headed into week three of our 2022 Base Builder program (and v4 Base Builder Plan: Traditional Low-to-High Intensity Progression) and upping the ante a bit to the lower-end of the Anaerobic Threshold energy system by targeting your 64:00 power. Learn how we break these (normally) long intervals into smaller ‘broken intervals’ to make adjusting to the higher intensity work more achievable and effective early in the base season.
Are you ready to get your base training on track for the new season?
We’re excited to launch our new v4.0 Base Builder training plans and 2022 Base Builder Program. After unveiling these new projects in the episode 67, we hope you consider joining us in training for 2022!
- v4.0 Base Builder Training Plan, Traditional Low-to-High Intensity Progression
- v4.0 Base Builder Training Plan, Reverse Periodization High-to-Low Intensity Progression
- 17th annual Base Builder & Base + Race Virtual Online Coaching Programs
Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners: Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our newest downloadable v4.0 Base Builder Training Plans.
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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day!
Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we’ve coached and trained in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.
Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/
** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com **
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