I like the concept of power meter training. It makes it possible for me to convert my knowledge about exercise physiology to the best possible training for my riders. Let me show you an example that demonstrates what I talk about. Gonzalo Vilaseca from Spain is an experienced rider riding quite seriously the last three […]
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The essential physiological skill in most cycling events is threshold power. You are likely to be a successful rider if you can generate many Watts at your threshold power. Sprinters, climbers, and time trial experts need a great threshold power. A good performance at threshold power is compulsory for winning a cycling race. Even if
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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 recommend you to perform an incremental warm-up before interval training starts. Physiological benefits of warm-up The bottom line is that your body is better prepared for strenuous exercise after proper warm-up. In my
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David Ertl has made an ebook about indoor cycling training to provide you with tips and tricks for your indoor training sessions. Ertl is a USA Cycling Level 1 certified coach. This is the highest level of education as a coach offered by USA cycling. Now let’s take a closer look at what Ertl has
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I believe 95% of all endurance athletes can improve their performance significantly if they have a professional coach to help them with their training program. Think about it. If you were just 3% stronger in the last race you’ve finished – would you have performed better? Professional coaches make better training plans and help athletes
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This article is a guest post from Shim Ravalia, who studies a master’s 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 exhaustion.
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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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Strength training is a controversial topic when we discuss optimizing of training programs for cyclists. There is no definitive answer to whether cyclists should include weight lifting in their winter training plans. There have been made several studies which have not yet proved that cyclists can benefit from strength training.
One of the biggest problems for these scientific studies is that they are done at untrained people and the study group is usually small. That makes it rather difficult to prove a significant difference between endurance training only versus endurance training combined with weight lifting.
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