Amount of exercise.

[MrLoverman]

I was wondering what would be more beneficial to you exercise wise. I would presume that going out once a week and riding 100miles would be better for you than going out either 4 times a week and riding 25 miles each time or going out 5 times a week and riding 20 miles each time. the reason that I would presume that going out the once and doing 100 miles would be better would be because the lesser distances would barely cause you to break out into a sweat and would therefore not exercise your cardio vascular system very much, where as if you went out and rode 100 miles then it would exercise your cardio vascular system. For the record I am not considering just going out and riding once a week but do a hundred miles but the reason I want to know is so I can figure out a way of exercising through out the week but being able to fit it in with the rest of may schedule through out the week.
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[Si W]

Smaller, regular training sessions have been shown to be more beneficial than larger irregular sessions.
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[fatface]

If you are chipper racing in the northwest, I suggest an hour a week at zone one intensity.

[JimmyRay]

Little and often wins over from big adn rare.

Essentially you are looking for your body to adapt to stimulus, and that is best achieved from regular stimulus rather than sporadic. One weekly hit is better than nothing, but not as good as lots of smaller stuff.

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[eightace]

I can confirm that 12 miles each way to work is better than two big rides at weekend. Fitter than I have ever been commuting

[nettie biker]

I have heard that if you do no training you go like a bag of spanners
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[Rich Hill]

This is surely a no brainer? How little do you know about adaptation theory and the effects of exercise on the the immune system.

Take a chipper (Hodge will do) and tell him on a Sunday 100 miles but nothing else all week he will

a) Struggle to do the 100 miles
b) Become ill from the effort
c) Cause a strain to some part of the body in trying to complete the distance

Its so important to recover from what you have done previously - but as soon as you have to hit the body with more stress for it to adapt to.

Hodge mentioned a phrase that I thought was apt for this conversation - Consitentantly Consistent - (spelt wrong obviously as I am chav) but its so true. If you don't keep it up the body is SO good at shutting down!
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