Training

4/15/2025 Ric Stern

WHAT ARE TRAINING ZONES? THE SCIENCE OF CYCLING INTENSITY & PERFORMANCE

Understanding training zones is key to maximizing your cycling performance. These zones help define effort levels, ensuring your training is structured and effective. Whether you use heart rate or power-based zones, they provide a clear guide for optimizing endurance, speed, and recovery. This guide explores how training zones work, how to test your fitness, and how to use these insights to improve.

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4/11/2025 Mark Nessmith

HOW CYCLISTS BURN BELLY FAT: PROVEN TRAINING & NUTRITION HACKS!

Cycling is among the best ways to lose stubborn belly fat and achieve long-term weight loss. Find out how to maximize your fat burning with scientifically proven cycling workouts, proper nutrition and lifestyle hacks, why cycling beats walking for belly fat loss, how indoor cycling apps like ROUVY give you better results, and the benefit of adding in some resistance training. Follow this ultimate guide to transform your body and improve your cycling!

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11/8/2024 Mark Nessmith

8 reasons cycling’s a fun, effective way to lose weight

If you’re working to lose weight, cycling offers a fun, low-impact way to burn calories and speed up your metabolism. No matter your current level of fitness, by combining both outdoor riding and training on the ROUVY indoor cycling app, you can stay on track and hit your weight-loss goals sooner. And as a bonus, you’ll have a great time!

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2/6/2024 Lauren Wolff

A guide to key cycling metrics that can improve your riding

Learn about some essential metrics to help you understand why they are important in monitoring and measuring your progress when creating a training plan. I will discuss setting goals, FTP testing, power training zones, Normalised Power, Intensity Factor (IF) and Training Stress Score (TSS). There is no need to feel daunted by these terms, data and numbers if you keep reminding yourself to stick to your plan and use the training metrics available on ROUVY to help you with your riding.

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