Road bike training camp: Want to be a professional cyclist?
At the training camp, recreational athletes can concentrate entirely on their favourite sport, just like their role models: Eating, cycling, sleeping - and nothing else. No job, no children, no other restrictions. By focussing on sport, more effort is possible. Quite a few of them cycle many times more kilometres in a week on "Malle" than they do at home.
This provides good training stimuli if you don't overdo it. Preparation and follow-up are also part of a road bike training camp. If you go there without any preparation, then go all out and don't recover sufficiently afterwards, the bottom line is that you won't get much out of it - you often get sick and the training effect is gone.
Plan well before and after
That's why our training camp plans also include the week before and after the camp. Depending on the time of year and the training structure, the training camps also have different functions: Early in the season, the focus is mainly on the basics, while mountains are still excluded depending on form and training goals. Later in the season, camps can of course also be used for specific competition preparation - even in a compact form, such as our four-day mountain camp, which confronts flatlanders with the mountains that they will later have to tackle in marathons. The last training camp should end four to six weeks before the planned competition.
Training camp at home
If you are unable to travel, you can also organise a training camp at home. It will then be more difficult to get fully into the swing of the sport than when travelling. Especially as a different environment is also part of the training stimulus. But with the right attitude, a training camp at home can also have a very positive effect.
We show plans for four variants: a training camp at home over a weekend, a nine-day camp at home over two weekends, a spring training camp over nine days and a special mountain camp over four days.
Road bike training camp: plan for at home
Road bike training camp: 9-day plan for the spring
Road bike training camp: 9-day plan for the summer
Road bike training camp: plan for the mountain camp
The training plans at a glance
How to read the units of the day
You train according to time in hours, minutes and seconds. The plan initially shows the total training time for each training day, the colour of which also indicates the basic pace: with the exception of compensation training, this is (light green) - always in the basic area 1 (medium green). Embedded in this are various time intervals (differently coloured boxes) that you ride at a higher speed.
