How many hours a week do a professional cyclist trains?
Kurt R asked:
I read the other day that the professional Danish rider Nicki Sørensen trains 750 kilometres per week. I just think it sounds a little when it’s his jobs. How many hours do a professional cyclist trains in a week?
I read the other day that the professional Danish rider Nicki Sørensen trains 750 kilometres per week. I just think it sounds a little when it’s his jobs. How many hours do a professional cyclist trains in a week?
The training required to ride as a professional, making your living on two wheels, is no big secret. It’s an awful lot – somewhere between 20,000 and 40,000km of riding per annum.
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Using 30,000 km per year, this equates to about 82 km per day or 575 km per week
Therefore I think that 750 km per week for a top cyclist is probably about correct.
At an average speed of 30 kph that means that they spend about 3 hours a day training whilst top performers spend about 3.5 hrs per day training
Cyclists don’t get paid by the hour, they get paid to perform as best they can. They train the needed hours to be in top condition. The training time varies widely depending on the time of year. The most training time ocurres pre-season, when they are building up base conditioning to the hard training needed to compete. During the race season training time goes down as race time goes up. An athlete’s body can only handle so much training time. Over training is as bad as under training. Their job as a cyclist is more than just riding.