73. GOOD NEWS FOR THE 'WEEKEND WARRIORS'!
A common solution for many amateur cyclists with a monday to friday wor: trying to accumulate as much as possible training volume during the weekend to compensate what they can’t do during the week because they are time crunched. No or short training sessions during the week and then long consecutive workouts on saturday and sunday. Does this approach work?
Does concentrating training load on few days bring to similar physiological and performance gains when compared to distribute the same training load on more days?
A hot off the press study published by Tripp and Colleagues (University of Calgary, Canada) on Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science In Sports in 2025 tried to answer this question. (1)
HOW DID THEY TRAIN?
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