# Do you get any sort of fitness value from a hard and fast MTB ride?

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**Category:** Training\
**Tags:** mtb\
**Created:** [August 25, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/do-you-get-any-sort-of-fitness-value-from-a-hard-and-fast-mtb-ride/20066 "2019-08-25T13:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![pbayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/pbayne/32/12895_2.png) [@pbayne](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/pbayne)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/do-you-get-any-sort-of-fitness-value-from-a-hard-and-fast-mtb-ride/20066/23 "2020-06-04T14:40:50Z")

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During the summer, I try to do a ride like this at least once a week. However, once CX season is getting close, I think it is important to do CX specific workouts. MTB race power profile is not like a CX course power profile. MTB is way more “on” or “off”. CX is much smoother, and very close to ftp for 45min to 1hour. I still do at least one hard/fun mtb workout per week during CX season, I just make sure that I am doing a couple of CX specific workouts too, and skills work at least once a week.

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