Plan Summary
Intermediate level (1-4 years cycling)
Riding regularly (4+ times/week)
Plan duration: 12 weeks
8-12 hours week
 
Description
The 16 week base plan puts in the foundations you will need to perform well in road races. Based on the latest science based training principals, the plan will improve your fitness, make your stronger, more resilient to injury and set you up well for your target events.
 
The plan provides the following:
Testing protocols to allow you to track your progress
Power based workouts, available for download onto common platforms (TrainerRoad, Zwift, Garmin etc) 
Improve Stamina and fatigue resistance (reduces the effects of fatigue during long races)
Improve Time To Exhaustion (TTE)
Improve Functional Threshold Power (FTP)
Free TrainingPeaks account (Premium for first 30 days)
Membership to closed facebook group for Pedal Action athletes with access to coaches to ask questions
TSS based plan
TrainingPeaks basic athlete account
 
The plan uses periodisation to split the training into three four week blocks, each block has three weeks where the workload gets progressively harder with the fourth week being a recovery and testing week. The focus of each block changes:
 
Block 1 (4 weeks): Prep work, cycling, cross training
Block 1 (4 weeks): The basics; aerobic endurance, muscular force and efficiency
Block 2 (4 weeks): Aerobic endurance, muscular force, speed skills, limited muscular endurance
Block 3 (4 weeks): Aerobic endurance, muscular force, speed skills, limited muscular endurance, limited anaerobic endurance