How to Improve Your Fitness

Pankaj Patkar wants to work on his VO2 max and wants to know what exercises he should be doing to improve his fitness for cycling. We make a few suggestions for his training schedule and one very big suggestion for training improvements

Question:
How do I work upon improving my VO2 max ?? What other exercise I should do to become biologically more fit for cycling?

Hi Pankaj,

Power interval training is your answer, pick a climb that is easy enough to ride sat down, but hard enough to make you try very hard. Split the climb into ride able sections and ride as hard as you can. The best way to achieve improvements is to use a pulse monitor then you know that the efforts are worth it.

The best thing you can do is to check out; www.cyclingmind.com

It has lots of good training tips that would bring your fitness on leaps and bounds. Good luck!

One Response to “How to Improve Your Fitness”

Ken Wilkes August 17, 2009

Pankaj, any cardiovascular exercise – running,swimming will help VO2 max. As far as available workout time and ease of workout, running seems to work best. Make sure your body type can take the pounding of running. All you need is some shorts and running shoes. You can run anywhere. Running shoes and equipment can fit in any bit of luggage and is quickly packed. It’s easier to run in bad weather than ride. Specially if you like to keep your pride and joy – your bike, dry and clean. It’s easy to get to an anaerobic state thus increasing your VO2 max,running.