What does it take to get to UCI Continental / Semi-professional level?

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Not directly linked but this thread has some crossover

Pro/Elite training

This is a great book. One of my favorites for training and balance between what actually matters in sport rather than focusing just on the training. I think the entire passage is important here regarding why he doesn’t like recovery weeks: The classic way of setting up training progression is to do three weeks in a row of hard training, or progressively harder training week over week, followed by one week of recovery. This program of training hard, then recovering for an entire week makes it …