How To Boost Your Power On The Bike | GCN Pro Tips

We all want to know how to improve our power output when riding. After all, who doesn't want to be faster? Ex professional rider Simon Richardson is here to teach us how.

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It's not going to be easy, but these training tips from Simon are tried and tested to increase your power on the bike. Looking at some specific session ideas, Si offers advice on ways to vary your riding efforts to target power.

And can you really get free power from simply changing your cadence? Watch to find out.

Three of Simon's drills include;
-40/20's
-1 minute max efforts
-strength intervals

Do you use these training methods? Let us know how you improve your power in the comments below 👇

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