Recovery days are an essential part of cycling training. Easy Level II rides can reduce training stress, maintain movement and help prepare you for your next quality session. Learn why recovery isn’t wasted training, when complete rest may be better, and how easier days support consistent long-term cycling performance.
View More Recovery Days Are Training Too: Why Easy Days Help You Become a Better Cyclist
Stop judging your indoor cycling workouts by average power alone. Chasing higher average watts can compromise recovery and reduce the quality of your key intervals. Instead, focus on executing each part of the workout at the prescribed intensity and achieving the session’s purpose to become a stronger, smarter cyclist.
View More Stop Chasing Average Power: Focus on What Your Cycling Workout Is Actually Trying to Achieve
Your fan is more than a comfort accessory—it’s performance equipment. Without adequate airflow, heat can make indoor cycling feel harder and reduce your ability to sustain power. Discover why effective cooling helps you execute quality workouts, manage heat stress, and get more from every session on your indoor trainer.
View More Your Fan Is Performance Equipment: Why Cooling Matters for Indoor Cycling
This 50min Variable Power Cycle smart-trainer workout combines short, powerful surges with changing recovery intensities to develop your ability to repeatedly produce power under fatigue. With five varied ten-minute blocks, you’ll challenge your aerobic fitness, high-intensity power and recovery while practising smooth transitions between different cycling intensities throughout the session.
View More Sunday Smart Trainer Session: 50min Variable Power Cycle (1:10min total time)
Stop judging your indoor cycling workouts by average power alone. Learn why chasing higher average watts can undermine recovery, compromise key intervals, and distract from the session’s real purpose. Better cycling performance comes from executing each part of your workout correctly—not simply making one number look impressive.
View More Stop Chasing Average Power: Focus on What Your Cycling Workout Is Actually Trying to Achieve
When real life gets in the way, your training plan needs to adapt. Coach Ray shares five practical rules for adjusting workouts, handling missed sessions, protecting recovery and maintaining consistency. Learn how to swap, shorten or occasionally drop sessions without derailing your progress or compromising the purpose of your training.
View More Ray’s Rules for Adjusting Your Training Plan When Life Gets in the Way
A proper warm-up can transform your indoor cycling sessions. Learn why the first 10 minutes are essential for improving performance, reducing early fatigue, and preparing your body for quality training. Discover how a simple, structured warm-up routine helps cyclists and triathletes get more from every ride.
View More Stop Wasting Your Warm-Up: Why the First 10 Minutes Matter More Than You Think
ERG mode is a powerful training tool, but using it for every indoor ride can limit your pacing skills. Learn when to use ERG mode, when to switch it off, and how balancing both approaches can make you a stronger, more confident cyclist on race day and beyond.
View More ERG Mode Isn’t Always Your Friend: When to Switch It Off
Tempo training sits in the “comfortably uncomfortable” zone — and it’s where most endurance races are actually won.
Too many athletes train either too easy or too hard, missing the intensity that builds sustainable speed, aerobic strength, and race-day confidence. In this article, Coach Ray explains what tempo training really is, why it matters for triathletes, runners, and cyclists, and how mastering this middle ground leads to smarter pacing and stronger finishes.
Christmas doesn’t have to mean losing fitness or starting the New Year behind. Learn how runners, triathletes, and cyclists can train smart through the festive period by prioritising what matters, using short quality sessions, protecting recovery, and staying flexible — so you arrive in January fit, fresh, and motivated.
View More Training Through Christmas: How to Stay Fit Without Missing the Festivities