Cycling requires a mix of endurance, power, speed, and technical skill. Key fitness components include endurance fitness, aerobic power, anaerobic capacity, muscular strength, and neuromuscular coordination. A structured training plan blending various workouts enhances overall performance, allowing cyclists to improve endurance, power, and efficiency for different riding challenges.
Running first thing after waking, before fussing with making food, or any other task on the to-do list, is a great mental trick to make sure that training happens. Some may call it "eating the frog", or "putting first things first". By training first thing, there's less risk of interruption, of an infant requiring attention, … Continue reading Training on an empty stomach;
High school biology class was not particularly interesting. The topics covered, while not interesting to the average tenth grader, are extremely pertinent to endurance athletes. Endurance sport, for the individual, comes down to the capacity of the body to convert the molecules in food into specific forms of movement. Knowing a bit of physiology and … Continue reading Metabolism for Endurance Athletes, Part 1
New Year's resolutions are a cruel joke. Societally, we all choose one time every year to play into one another's desire to be better, without ever sharing strategies for achieving those goals. We don't share healthy recipes and portion control tools, we just seek to lose weight. Further, we're encouraged to set these goals on … Continue reading New Years Resolutions, doing it right;
The holidays bring lots of wonderful things, time with loved ones, maybe a few days off or even some new equipment! But those benefits are counterbalanced with potholes on the road to a successful season; there's heavy meal after heavy meal, desserts lining every coffee table, and the weather turns sour and the days get … Continue reading Willpower for the New Year;
