New to cycling. Question about how form reacts to training load

[Gerald]

There are a number of topics on this matter. Staying in the green is not possible if you have exhausted your available training time.

You can read about the fitness chart and a few related discussions here:

FITNESS PAGE - a guide to getting started

In the guide, you will learn about the Fitness page , and the features available. Each section is covered in a separate post, so that any features relating to the specific section on this page can be updated accordingly.

Fitness, and form

Hi all, I started training seriously at the beginning of April after I bought a power meter and a Garmin device. Before then I was doing some rides but I was not recording them and I was rock climbing regularly, but I am not sure this counts as aerobic. Anyway, the reason I am writing is that I misinterpreted the fitness graph when I started training. I read “Avoid staying in the high risk zone for long or you might become over-trained” and I thought it meant I could stay in the red zone for s…

How to hit the green zone (Optimal)

Hi there, How do I stay in the green zone / Optimal ? I feel like my training and group rides are hard and fatiguing, but for the last 3-4 weeks i’ve been in the grey and blue zone. I’ve been feeling super good and strong on the bike, but it seems like my fitness curve has plateaued. Any advise? Could it be wrong settings? /Kasper