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Cycling Training Tips

What Are Your Best Cycling Tips for Beginners?

I often get questions about cycling tips from beginners looking for fast improvements. I introduce them to the basic training principles and basic rules for optimal training I know. Training consistently for a long period is a cornerstone in every cyclist’s success and using some principles for recovery accelerates the progress.

Nevertheless, it can be a good idea to hear what you readers say to your friends when they ask you about beginner cycling tips.

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Now it is time for competition: What are your best beginner cycling tips?

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Request: I need all your best cycling links

I will try to make an update of my link section soon. I want to make my link section to a high quality page with a lots of powerful links to the best cycling resources in the world. Thus, if you have some links that you will like to share, please write a comment in this post.

I’m looking for:

  • Cycling coaches
  • Personal pages (Rider diaries/blogs)
  • Resources (News, forums etc.)
  • Other

You’re welcome to include a link to your own blog if you believe it belongs to this link section.

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What is your highest maximum heart rate ever?

The most commented post here on Training4cyclists.com so far was my question: What is your lowest heart rate ever? Maximum heart rate is often calculated as 220 minus your age, but there is a standard deviation on about 10 which means that 95% of us would fit into a formula called: 220 minus age +/- 20 beats. Thus, as you’ve already experienced, this formula does not have any practical usability for a serious endurance athlete.

But back to the topic, what is your highest maximum heart rate ever?

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Optimize your cycling training with basic knowledge

Cycling training should not be made more difficult than it already is. Consider how many cyclists who have won great races, championships and honour without knowing anything significant about cycling training principles, nutrition or training planning (not to mention heart rate monitors, power meters etc.) There are a lot athletes having success, because they have talent and do a lot of clever things without knowing it: They train hard, they rest and they eat proper amounts of food.

Thus, they make above 95% of their potential performance by doing these things right. Advanced training methods can only add a few watts to this, but in tough competitions these can be crucial. But for a beginning it can be valuable to read these articles to avoid the most common mistakes and understand the basic principles of high quality cycling training:

Recovery Tips for Cyclists

Basic Principles of Cycling Training

Heart Rate Monitor Training Mistakes

Strength Training Mistakes

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