Cycling Workouts for Triathletes

Triathletes spend a lot of time improving their freestyle or open-water skills for the swim, and working on speed and endurance for their runs. The bike is often the leg that gets neglected. Use these cycling workouts to improve your skills on two wheels.

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Threshold Workouts to Improve Your Bike Speed

Threshold Workouts to Improve Your Bike Speed

Increasing your lactate threshold will boost your performance, but how do you do that? Here are a few bike workouts that will have you moving faster than ever.

Combo Workout: Core Work and Bike Intervals

Combo Workout: Core Work and Bike Intervals

Try this workout when you need a quick but intense session at the gym or at home on your indoor trainer.

4 Great One-Hour Bike Workouts

4 Great One-Hour Bike Workouts

Want to boost your cycling fitness without going out of your way to find the perfect stretch of road? Try these workouts on your regular one-hour routes.

12 Weeks to Stronger Cycling

12 Weeks to Stronger Cycling

Improving communication between brain and body will make you a stronger cyclist. Add these workouts to your training to increase your muscle-activation potential.

Power Play: 3 Key Workouts for Olympic-Distance Cycling

Power Play: 3 Key Workouts for Olympic-Distance Cycling

Remember when cycling workouts were just based on time and distance? Now, athletes are bombarded with performance data. These three workouts should make you more comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Olympic-Distance Tune-Up: 4 Key Bike Sessions

Olympic-Distance Tune-Up: 4 Key Bike Sessions

The first race of the year is always tough simply because there's so much uncertainty. But you never want to head into your first race totally blind. Here are three great bike workouts and one test session to help you prepare.

Anaerobic Cycling Workouts for 70.3

Anaerobic Cycling Workouts for 70.3

All triathlons, right down to sprints, are almost entirely aerobic in nature. Nevertheless, there's a place for anaerobic training in your preparations for any triathlon, including half-Ironmans.

3 Supercharged Early-Season Cycling Workouts

3 Supercharged Early-Season Cycling Workouts

Now is the time to make crucial gains to boost your triathlon performance. Use these early-season cycling drills to improve your cadence and develop strength.

Flexibility Training: Cycling Stretches

Flexibility Training: Cycling Stretches

Want to increase recovery and circulation, improve biomechanics and prevent injuries? Then stretch! Here are some cycling-specific movements.

Achieve Peak Cycling Form for Your Last Race of the Season

Achieve Peak Cycling Form for Your Last Race of the Season

After a season of long mileage, interval workouts and racing, you may need to inject some snap back into your cycling legs. Use these workouts before your last big event.

4 for Speed: Hit Your Late-Season Races in Peak Cycling Form

4 for Speed: Hit Your Late-Season Races in Peak Cycling Form

Regardless of whether your season's final race is a local sprint or big-time international race, you should be looking for one last jump in fitness to help you peak for your best performance of the year.

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