How to Prepare to Bike in Italy


[Bicycle Home Training - credit: ?keaggy.com]

Training tips to Bicycle Italy

1° Evaluate your fit level doing a test: Bike for 5 Km at your maximum speed noting how much time you employ for this route

  • If you employ a time between 8 and 10-minute you have a good level
  • If you employ fewer than 8-minute you have a higher level

If you are satisfied with these limits you have a good basis to face the hardest routes, but you have to follow an appropiate training.

2° If you want to try this adventure you have to rise your resistance force.

  1. Before starting your training, warm up on a level route for 30-minute.
  2. On the first your biking will consists in low number of spin pedal up no hard slopes.
  3. Progressively increase the spin pedal number and the hardness of slopes.
  4. Start to train on long routes of 20 Km about 10 % medium slope: this level is the goal of your training.

If you can repeat more times the n° 4 point you are ready to try the hardest bike routes in Italy


[Mortirolo, one of the hardest bicycle tracks in Italy - credit: renschmensch]

3° Alternate the training and rest days: during a week you can ride four days. Repeat this practice for 2/3-month

4° It is better to assure of your health condition by a physical examination

5° Combine the training with the correct nutrition LINK ALIMENTAZIONE

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