If we divide the sports season, we can find different parts within the frameworkwork cycle, which would be the largest structure in sports planning that would encompass a year or half of it.

In these “parts” or phases and always looking at sports periodization from a contemporary point of view, we will give different names of the periods (Isurin, 2004 y Matveev 1977).

• Transient.
• General preparatory – accumulation.
• Specific Preparatory – Transformation.
• Competitive – Realization.

In our case, We will start by talking about first period, where the majority of cyclists right now are in it or entering, in autumn or already in most cases, This period has passed to begin the general accumulation or preparatory period.

He Transitional period is a stage of rest and recovery which is preceded by the last competitive test of the cyclist's season. Small transition periods can be carried out during specific moments of the season to recover the runner from their competitive cycles and prepare new objectives within that season..

During the season these periods can last between 5 and 10 days, what would be the duration of a microcycle, the most concrete structure of sports planning or the equivalent of a week of training. At the end of the season this period can be extended from one week to four, giving rise to transient mesocycle, which would be the second most concrete structure of planning or the normal equivalent of a month of work.

In this period we search for physical and mental regeneration of the athlete, giving you room to do what you like and feel like during this time, giving a multivariety of sports load where he must feel comfortable doing different activities that are carried out during the season, always at a low intensity and volume.

It is a period to recharge your batteries and where going out by bike is not an obligation. Sometimes this time of year is used to recover the athlete from minor muscle injuries and, above all, reduce the psychological stress of daily training and competition..
You can work on resistance in a multivariate way: with walks, swimming or other endurance sports that are not specifically cycling and that benefit the general improvement of the athlete.

We will also use this period to do a general checkup of our health, with a blood test to check how we have finished the outgoing season and how we start the next season, together for example, with a visit to the dentist to check that everything is in order or other types of visits to other specialists that during the season are not so recommended due to the high load of competitions on the calendar of some cyclists..

We will take advantage to set goals for the new season, We have said objectives and not desires and dreams, given that Sometimes there are athletes who dream of achieving something that, due to their level of physical fitness, is totally unfeasible., This is where we must make our athletes touch the ground. Dreaming is healthy. Without dreams there is no vision of the future, There are no incentives and the goal of training should be to make these dreams come true..

These dreams or desires sometimes need a period longer than a season to consolidate., nothing happens as long as these are realistic and measurable. An example would be: you have had a hard time finishing the outings with your weekend group and you want to win a race., this would be a dream, not a realistic goal.
Goals are what take you to your limits., and it may require you to take risks, but you can imagine yourself achieving it after a few months.
I leave you a series of principles to keep in mind when formulating them:

– Measurable objective: you need to have measurement systems to evaluate your progress. Instead of saying “improve” in your goal formulation, You can say: “I will upload port X with a minute and a half less than this year when I uploaded faster.”.

• Objective must be under your control: A successful person does not set goals based on others.. “I will win the race if his bike fails” is looking at others, The objective should be different: “Make an attack on the last hill to win the stage.”.
• You must demand the maximum effort: if it is too easy or difficult it is like having no goal. For example, if we aim to win the club's time trial it may be too easy or, on the other hand, winning the return in stages X could be the opposite.. Instead, If we propose to be among the 15 first round, It will be a realistic goal that will make us fight to get there.
• Always positive objectives: The objective should keep you focused on what you want to happen, not in what you want to avoid: “I don't want to stay in the group”, It's a target with a losing mentality., It should be with a positivist approach: “I will arrive with the main group”.

After this formulation of objectives that will be focused on the competition and that should be achieved during the season, You may have one or two more goals that are important to yourself and that you should give them the same importance as the first one..

It is with these calendar objectives and improvements of the athlete himself without taking into account the calendar that must be structured in the new macrocycles of the following season, marking the main objectives in terms of races and the improvements that the athlete should undergo to improve themselves and obtain that performance improvement that we all seek. For that we have the transitional period, to be able to analyze what has worked in the season that ends and what has failed in this season., looking for new incentives and improving the cyclist's weak points.