Week six of the British Cycling Sportive Training Plans for beginners and week one for intermediate and advanced riders starts on Monday - download yours today.

BEGINNERS
The sixth of 25 weeks of prescribed training sessions designed to get you to your first sportive in the best possible shape will continue to develop your tempo fitness during the week and hill strength and endurance at the weekend. This progression stimulates your body to adapt and become fitter. If you just did the same amount of training at the same intensities each week, you’re body would stagnate and you’d stop making progress. Cycling isn’t just about fitness though. Especially in sportives, having good bike handling skills and being confident in a group are essential.

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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
Week one of the intermediate and advanced plans are the start of a foundation phase of training, suitable for riders of any discipline and alongside prescribed rides in training zones, which include efforts at intensity, also include cross training and strength and conditioning sessions. It's also important to set your benchmark heartrate or power zones, which is one day of this weeks activities.

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By following the plans, British Cycling members will benefit from the same expert knowhow that has propelled Britain to the top of World cycling.

Developed by British Cycling’s expert coaches and using sessions ridden by the top riders; it’s a structured, scientific and proven route to cycling success which, together with advice from British Cycling’s Insight Zone, forms a powerful cycling knowledgebase.

FOLLOW THE PLAN
British Cycling members can start following our training plans at any time – match the plans to the date of your event and your ability level and see your cycling improve.

If you’re new to cycling or it has been a while since you were last in the saddle, the British Cycling Sportive Training Plan for beginners is the ideal way for you to train for and complete up to a 60-mile sportive. Using heart rate to gauge intensity, you’ll always be training at the right level and ensuring you’re riding and recovering optimally to make maximum fitness gains.

If you’re an experienced sportive rider, looking to take your cycling to the next level and maybe start hitting some gold standards, the British Cycling Sportive intermediate and advanced training plans are for you. With a less prescriptive, user-driven four-week rolling structure, you get expert coaching and proven British Cycling training sessions, but it’s more flexible and easier to mould round your target events. Whether you train using heart rate or power, you can guarantee every pedal stroke will be propelling you effectively towards your cycling goals.

Whether you’re a sportive regular or aspiring to take part in your first ever event, British Cycling’s sportive tips and advice pages have all the information you’ll need.

This week, there's the addition of intermediate and advanced training plans, the start of a foundation phase of training, suitable for riders of any discipline and alongside prescribed rides in training zones, which include efforts at intensity, also include cross training and strength and conditioning sessions.

Access training plans here.

Beginner training plans continue with a focus on developing your tempo fitness during the week and hill strength and endurance at the weekend.

Access training plans here.