Cycling Training Tips
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It has long been known that warm-up before physical exercise can improve your performance significantly. In many of my training programs, I actually recommend you to perform an incremental warm-up before interval training really starts. Physiological benefits of warm-up Metabolic processes are temperature-dependent, thus many enzymes perform better at higher temperatures. Oxygen transport from blood [...]
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This article is a guest post from Shim Ravalia who studies a master in sports rehabilitation at the University of Kent (Gillingham, Medway). In this article she outlines the current knowledge on how we can optimize our recovery by choosing the right recovery drink after training. If cyclists do not recover properly straight after exercise [...]
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As a medical doctor I like to see proof that something actually works. Show me the facts. Perform a test on an ergometer bike and show me the numbers. Hard facts. I like it. Cycling performance tests can provide insightful information about your current fitness level. These tests can be used to evaluate and optimize [...]
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This article is a guest post from Shim Ravalia who studies a master in sports rehabilitation at the University of Kent (Gillingham, Medway). Now she is proposing a study on the effects of soy milk and semi skimmed milk in the recovery period after exercise on trained male cyclists by looking at the time to [...]
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Resting heart rate is not always equal to performance Monitoring your resting heart rate is a good discipline to integrate in your daily procedures since it can give you some important information about your fitness. When you have registered your resting heart rate in the morning for a period of time (months) you will start [...]
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