Intervals - What are they?
In cycling, we use the word 'Intervals' to define periods of higher intensity work alternating with low-intensity periods of recovery.Intervals play an essential part in your training. They increase fitness and allow you to burn more calories over a shorter period than steady-state riding.Today we look at different ways of completing interval workouts and why we need them.
- Author: BigKev
- Sport: bike
- Duration: 30 min
- Dominant zone: Threshold
- Intensity: 0.67
- Created: 2020-09-11T06:13:54.618Z
- Updated: 2026-05-11T08:20:29.873Z
Structure
- 1 min @ 40% (40w)
- 1 min @ 49% (49w)
- 1 min @ 55% (55w)
- 1 min @ 61% (61w)
- 1 min @ 70% (70w)
- 2 min @ 50% (50w)
- 2X
- 2 min @ 83% (83w)
- 1 min @ 50% (50w)
- 3X
- 2 min @ 50% (50w)
- 1 min @ 95% (95w)
- 2 min @ 50% (50w)
- 1 min @ 50% (50w)
- 1 min @ 70% (70w)
- 1 min @ 61% (61w)
- 1 min @ 55% (55w)
- 1 min @ 49% (49w)
- 1 min @ 40% (40w)