Cycling Training Tips
From the category archives:
Why do you recommend cyclists to to train like weight lifters (few reps)? Wouldn’t be better to train for strength endurance with 8, 12 or more reps?
Maintaining a low body weight is essential in both road cycling and mountain bike (Watts per Kilogram), since carrying extra pounds (dead weight) decrease your performance. That is [...]
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“Would it not be more beneficial to simply pushing a large gear (if on a trainer) or doing steep hills. I personally have gotten more out of doing 28% grade repeats for 2 hours then doing any sort of lifting…
Andrew Coggan / Ric Stern seem to think weight training is useless / determintal compared to [...]
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Do you ever consider to do a session on a indoor trainer (spinning or hometrainer) instead of cancelling an outdoor training session due to bad weather?
Training in cold, bad weather is probably not good for you. Your performance goes down, your motivation goes down and your bike gets dirty. Most riders don’t like that.
Good planning [...]
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Question from Rob Worrell: “My seasonal goal was an 11mile hill climb near my home at the conclusion of the summer. In interval training I once hit 182BPM (I am 39 Years old), but most of my intervals are around 160-170BPM. In the MTB hill climb race (seasonal goal), I averaged 173BPM for a 1:05:30 [...]
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Kscheid asked me the following question: “I am interested in knowing a bit more about monitors. I have a heart monitor, which I like using, but I know that there are other monitors out there, say for cadence and/or power output. I am not a racer, so I am not sure I would really need [...]
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