http://www.training4cyclists.com/peripheral-adaptations-to-cycling-training/ Cycling Training Tips Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:02:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.training4cyclists.com/peripheral-adaptations-to-cycling-training/comment-page-1/#comment-5234 Improvements through a cycling career Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:42:30 +0000 http://www.training4cyclists.com/archives/8#comment-5234 [...] Meter Tips - Training4cyclists.comImprovements through a cycling careerJuly 9, 2007 at 12:12 pm · Filed under PhysiologyWhen you start your cycling career, centraladaptations increase your performance rapidly in the first three months. After one year of training you will discover that it takes more time to gain improvements. Now you will have to think more about how to train to keep improving. At this time improvements are often due to peripheral adaptations. [...] [...] Meter Tips – Training4cyclists.comImprovements through a cycling careerJuly 9, 2007 at 12:12 pm · Filed under PhysiologyWhen you start your cycling career, centraladaptations increase your performance rapidly in the first three months. After one year of training you will discover that it takes more time to gain improvements. Now you will have to think more about how to train to keep improving. At this time improvements are often due to peripheral adaptations. [...]

]]> http://www.training4cyclists.com/peripheral-adaptations-to-cycling-training/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Long Slow Distance Training | Cycling Training Tips Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:08:13 +0000 http://www.training4cyclists.com/archives/8#comment-391 [...] If we take a look at long distance running, I will have to introduce you to a legendary coach: Arthur Lydiard. He invented the term ‘jogging’ and got famous for his strategies to achieve peak performance in long distance running events. When the runners started to run longer distances, they got more efficient and achieved a better endurance. LSD (Long Slow Distance) improves your peripheral adaptations, which means increased capillary density, more myoglobin, more mitochondrias, better use of free fatty acids as fuel and larger glycogen stores. Also there are probably some neural adaptations that make running more efficient. Training at slow speeds has only very little effect on VO2 maximum. [...] [...] If we take a look at long distance running, I will have to introduce you to a legendary coach: Arthur Lydiard. He invented the term ‘jogging’ and got famous for his strategies to achieve peak performance in long distance running events. When the runners started to run longer distances, they got more efficient and achieved a better endurance. LSD (Long Slow Distance) improves your peripheral adaptations, which means increased capillary density, more myoglobin, more mitochondrias, better use of free fatty acids as fuel and larger glycogen stores. Also there are probably some neural adaptations that make running more efficient. Training at slow speeds has only very little effect on VO2 maximum. [...]

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