Mountain Bike Rider

RETHINKING ZONE 2 TRAINING

SHUTTLE RUNS

Unless you play football or tennis regularly, moving laterally is not something that mountain bikers do very often. It’s a great skill though. To perform shuttle runs, hop sideways for a set distance then when changing direction hunker down and touch the ground with your outside hand. Go back and forth like this but go slowly at first as they will get your heart pumping, and fast.

here is simply no denying the benefits of Zone 2 training. And while it’s easy to dismiss it as base building or low-intensity cardio, the profound adaptations

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