Six Simple Steps to Being a Better Rider in 2025
Downtime - The Mountain Bike Podcast
Downtime MTB
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to be a better mountain bike rider? Well, coach Ben Plenge from The Strength Factory is here to help you in just six simple steps. Ben lays out the fundamentals needed to put together a winter of progression, that will lead to you being a better, faster, safer rider in 2025. Ben takes us through planning, building a foundation, looking after ourselves, adding intensity, upgrading our skills and getting specific, to ensure that we’re always improving. As ever, there is lots of great information in this episode from Ben. So, it’s time to sit back, hit play and listen to this episode with Coach Ben Plenge.
You can also watch this episode on YouTube here.
If you’d like a handy document that covers all that we’ve talked about in the episode, then Ben has a free pdf available here.
If you want even more and are keen to get on a Strength Factory programme, then there are some offers available until 31st October 2024.
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You can follow Ben on Instagram @strengthfactory_coach. Check out his free resources on YouTube here and the video we mention in the episode is here. You can also find information on the Maffetone formula which we mention here.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's just set that scene that everyone listening, whether you're 14, 44 or 74, you can all be |
| 0:07.3 | fitter and stronger. |
| 0:08.6 | The greater your aerobic fitness, the greater the potential to make gains from that other stuff |
| 0:12.7 | is. |
| 0:13.1 | Build that foundation of a riding position, you know, where you're riding in that hinge position, |
| 0:18.8 | you're looking down the trail, your legs are kind of straight. Your elbows are kind of out. |
| 0:21.8 | They'll try and mimic the race that they're doing or the event they're doing too early |
| 0:25.8 | and they're doing a minute on, a minute off. |
| 0:28.1 | And actually, they're not recovering enough to go hard enough again and again to actually |
| 0:32.3 | develop their power. |
| 0:34.0 | If you're riding for doing 1500 meters of climbing on a Sunday, and you're trying |
| 0:38.4 | to do it with a rubbish crap breakfast, it's not going to be a fun ride. That's the secret |
| 0:43.7 | source. That's the key, isn't it? If people ask me, what's the secret to being fit and strong? |
| 0:52.6 | Hey, everyone, I'm Chris Hall, and this is the downtime podcast where we're going to be taking you deeper than ever into the gravity-based side of mountain biking. |
| 0:59.8 | Today we're supported by the Strength Factory and we're going to be joined by head coach Ben Planger to give you six simple steps to become a better rider in 2025. |
| 1:08.4 | Ben has kindly created a PDF that outlines all that we talked about. So if you like the |
| 1:12.2 | conversation, I want to use it as a baseline for your improvement, then head to the link in the show |
| 1:16.2 | notes on my website, downtimepodcast.com, and get yourself a copy. Ben also has some amazing deals for |
| 1:22.2 | you on his online programs until the end of October. So if you want to take things further and get |
| 1:26.8 | all the support you need this winter and beyond, then you can use the code D-Time Pod. That's the letter D, |
| 1:32.8 | the word time and the word pod, all in capitals with no spaces at the checkout on the strength |
| 1:37.9 | factory.uk. To get yourself either 50% off on lifetime access depends Ben's over 40s MTP program or your first |
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