If you want to cycle faster, you shouldn't train so hard

Young cyclists prefer to train as hard as possible, to improve as quickly as possible. They think: if I'm not exhausted, then it wasn't good enough. But this fanaticism can get in the way of improvement, and it also turns out not to be a good predictor of cycling success for scouts. So what should we do? One of the greatest talents of a young cyclist, says cycling coach, cycling analyst and cycling scientist Jens Voet, is the ability to train no…