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Sara Mills asked in SportsCycling · 8 years ago

How should a Junior Cyclist train?

I am currently 16 years old and have seriously toned down on my riding (I was riding almost everysingle day and making it HARD!) because I simply just couldn't maintain it. It's exhausting to train like that plus deal with school and study. I have year 11 coming up and at the moment my coaches say that I don't need to focus on fitness (they say I'm already very fit, just not strong. I seriously lack stregnth). My current week is looking like this.

MON:

am: 7.30am Gym (lifting upper body, lower body)

pm:3.45 maybe a run

TUES:

am: 7.30am Gym (lifting upper body)

pm: 6.30pm track training (easy and skills)

WED:

am: 1 to 11/2hr bike ride

pm: 6.30pm Easy abd light Road skills

THUR:

am: 5am 1-2hr ride

FRI:

7.30am Gym (lifting upper body or lower body)

SAT: Long ride 2-4hr or racing or run or rest

SUN: Long ride 2-4hr or racing or run or rest

I really don't want to get burnt out and HATE cycling (which was starting to happen before as it just wasn't fun anymore). My goal is to get on a team and be the best I can in the amount of time I have been givn. I plan to study engineering when I leave school and head up to Canberra. The thing is when I listen to other junior cyclists they say they train everyday, and do all these things and I'm sitting there feeling like a lazy, unfit, undedicated young female junior cyclist.

If anyone can help me and tell me what I should be doing that would be fantastic. Futhermore, if you too are a junior cyclist tell me what you do. I am struggling with this extremelly because cycling is just not fun for me anymore and I cringe everytime it's time to ride. I love the sport but I need a balance. I know that I can't maintain riding everday! I LOVE I MEAN LOVE the gym! I am going there for chance, for the social side of it (as I normally ride with oldies 50+yrs and we don't really talk) and it's a change. I'm also recently coming out of trouble with an eating disorder and I want to gain muscle back and gain stregnth back and 'bulk' in short. Please just help me out! I want to do well in cycling but I need a balance!

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    You're quote, "I really don't want to get burnt out and HATE cycling..."

    QUIT!

  • John M
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    It doesn't sound like you are cut out for cycling or at least the competition part of it. You need to do a lot more cycling, running wont help and bulking up just adds weight. Ride for the fun of it and let it go at that.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    dude so many words

    don;t ride if you don;t want to

    wle

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