If you’ve recently signed up for a cycling tour you might be unsure about how best to prepare. In this post we’ll lay out a clear training strategy to make sure you arrive at your tour with fresh legs and enough fitness to propel you to a strong finish. Our first step is to understand the specific demands of your tour.
Unless your name is Peter Sagan or Eddy Mercx, you will lose 99.9% of the bike races that you start. Failure in sport is inevitable, but it is also an important part of developing as an athlete and ultimately achieving your goals. Read on to find out how failure fits in to your development as an athlete.
Your body has three energy systems that power movement. These are the oxidative, glycolytic, and ATP-Pcr systems, each of which serves a unique role in fueling your sprint performance [1]. All three systems contribute to supporting energy requirements, but their relative contributions change with the duration and intensity of your efforts.
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Power data has transformed what it means to both describe and prescribe effort. Training lexicon like Functional Threshold Power (FTP) enables intensity prescription down to the watt while providing a language to describe cycling performance in great detail [1].
Everyone gets better when they start riding a bike, but what happens after you’ve been at it for a while? Why do some riders continue to improve while others plateau or burn out?
University road race is one of the toughest races on the NCNCA calendar. This year, Data Driven Athlete Aria Kiani won the P12 race, and became California road race state champion. Let’s take a look at his power file and find out what it takes to win on one of hardest courses in California.
This month I had the privilege of attending the TrainingPeaks 2017 Endurance Coaching Summit (ECS) in Boulder, CO. While in Boulder, I had a great time meeting other coaches and getting to know a few of the faces behind TrainingPeaks.
Matt Chatlaong will soon begin working on his Masters degree in Exercise Science as he continues to coach cyclists while racing his bike for the Herbalife p/b Marc Pro – Nature’s Bakery Elite Cycling Team. In this article he takes a closer look at how sleep can impact your cycling performance.
Sam’s curiosity about his own physiology led him to pursue a degree in Exercise Biology from the University of California, Davis. He continues to race on the Herbalife 24 p/b Marc Pro-Nature’s Bakery Elite Cycling Team and is excited to leverage his experience and educational background to help cyclists of all levels get stronger and faster.
Most cyclists are familiar with VO2max. The upper limit of oxygen consumption during exercise has been studied since the 1920’s and is widely recognized as a fundamental measure of exercise capacity [1, 2]. Before we look at how VO2max relates to your cycling, let’s start with a basic definition.
