Periods of intensified training can be useful to nudge your cycling performance up from a plateau. But they can also break your season if you don't manage them diligently. Whether your big training period is deliberate (planned periods of high training loads, such as training camps) or by "accident", you want to avoid ending up with: heavy legs not feeling strong during intervals or with poor adaptation the following months Fortunately, you can mitigate your risk of ending up in this...