If I ride six days a week, how many days should I make recovery rides?

By admin ⋅ August 12th, 2010

Before I try to answer your question, let's define what "recovery ride" means. To me, a recovery ride is one where you just soft pedal and keep your hear rate below 65% to get blood flow through the legs and assist in the recovery process. This is what we call active recovery. I'm assuming this is what you are referring to. There are two answers to your question and you probably won...