Once the foundation has been laid with basic training, you have to make a little more effort in the development area.
Have you already clocked up your first few hundred kilometres of training (this season)? Of course, you have been training correctly in the basic endurance range so far, giving your heart, circulation and metabolism the chance to gradually adapt to higher loads without stress. As important as this continues to be for training, when it comes to taking part in competitions, you must not fall into a steady basic training rut. This doesn't just mean attacking the last fat pads, but above all the fact that you can only get faster if you ride faster - as banal as that sounds. It's no longer possible to have a relaxed conversation with your training partner, as is the case with the basics, but you won't be travelling with your tongue hanging out either. An imaginary stress traffic light would be amber in the development area.
The athlete should gradually approach his or her limits and extend them more and more in this way. After a while, they will have developed abilities that they did not have before or no longer have - training scientists therefore refer to this as the development zone (EB).
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