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Let us give you some tips to find the training distance for cycling. The training distance for cycling needs to be set according to your level and be adapted to your season planning. It is important that you train 4-5 days a week, if you are serious about improving your cycling performance as a bike rider. Before something happens you should as a minimum have at least 1 day off a week, and even 2 days off per. week is a good starting point. It is the combination of structured training and resting periods, which increase your physical performances.The training distance for a week of cycling should contain the following elements:
The short training distance should be ridden in light tempo and is to help your muscles loosen up e.g. after a long day of training distance at the weekend.  The medium long day of training distance ought to be between the short and the next long day of training. If you are a competitive bike rider, one or two of these training days during the summer period should be with built-in interval training. The long training distance day should be of a length of 125 % of your target. However, you ought not to follow this model if you e.g. are riding a long way, for example more than 200 km. Then you ought to train a little differently, as it is not physically possible to train distances of this length for longer periods at a time. In the week running up to your target, the longest day of training distance ought not to be more than 75 % of the length of the race that is your goal. This rule in particularly is a little dependent on your own level. For those with a really high level of training, a length of 125 % of the goal, 4 days before you have a goal, can be useful, but it should be built up properly, and you should always take your point of departure in your individual level, and where you are in your phase of development. Be flexible with your training program and adapt the program to your life style. A training program, which is too rigid, is destined to fail. How much energy should you put into the individual days of training:
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