Originally Posted by
rms13
Ok. How old are you? How long have you been training? What kind of off the bike training do you do? How much sleep do you get? What's your diet? I'd bet you could get same results in 12-15 hrs of training per week.
I do agree that if you strictly train on the bike than it's hard to over train because once your body is adapted then cycling isn't a big strain on your system.
What do any of those questions have to do with overtraining? It's not like I've done that this year or something. I did that as a 21 year old college student, though I was already a cat 1 at that point and had been training and racing for a few years.
I completely agree with the hours. Actually, now I get far better results at 8-10 hours of training, though I focus more on crits. But 14-16 hours a week probably would have been the sweet spot at that point, especially for racing in Europe.
But yes, you really have to push through over and over again to reach a point of overtraining, and then you have to keep going. Not a good experience.