Indoor Season

CycleClub Kingston

The 2009-2010 Indoor Season has ended. See you outside!



CycleClub Kingston offers INDOOR training rides

3 times per week, on trainers, during the Winter Season (November-Mid-March). We ride for many reasons to include fitness, cardio-vascular intensity, competition, weight loss, general health, relaxation, stress management, and/or simply a love for the sport of cycling. We attack specific riding skills that are aimed at improving your cycling abilities during the off season.

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY

In practical terms, anaerobic capacity refers to your ability to recover quickly from very hard efforts - those exceeding lactate-threshold intensity - and to repeat such efforts multiple times before you experience a drop in performance. YOU FEEL LIKE: "My performance drops quickly after the first effort of an interval workout." or "I struggle with speeding up from an already hard pace, even for a minute."

MAXIMUM POWER

Maximum power is the ability to contract and relax the muscles very quickly. There is a common misconception that maximum power is something only sprinters need. In fact, the best climbers and time trialists tend to have greater top-end power than those less proficient, so boosting your maximum power is a great way to improve your all-around performance. YOU FEEL LIKE: "I get dropped on steep, short climbs and I can't keep up when someone in the group attacks." or "I have no 'snap' in my legs."

LACTATE THRESHOLD

Simply put, lactate threshold is the maximum power you can sustain for 1 hour, which is roughly the speed at 85 percent of your max heart rate. If this is a weakness, you’ll notice you can’t ride at 85 percent of your max heart rate for an hour, and that your max sustainable speed/power is too low. A trained cyclist should be able to churn out at least 30 percent more speed/power in a max-effort hour ride than in a moderate one. YOU FEEL LIKE: "I bonk abruptly when trying to sustain a high intensity." Or "I feel overwhelmed by the speed of time trials and time-trial-intensity workouts."