What to Wear Cycling in Varying Weather, a Conversation with Coach Ertl This column began in early December when I started trading emails with Coach David Ertl. Coach Ertl lives and rides in Iowa. I grew up in neighboring Missouri and can attest to the terrible weather (and the 100-degree-plus extremes — in normal years!) possible […]
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What to Wear in Various Weather
Dictionary of Cycling Lingo
A List of Common Terminology to Decipher the Sometimes Arcane Patois of Road Cycling Ever wonder what cyclists are talking about when they start throwing around weird slang? We’ve created a bicycling dictionary for you, with definitions of the most common phrases and words related to cycling. Did we miss a word? Leave a comment […]
Anti-Aging: Too Much Stress Shortens Your Life
By Coach John Hughes As an RBR reader you probably know the major factors that affect how long you will live: Smoking shortens the life expectancy of 30-year-old men by 6.6 years and women by 5.5 years. Diabetes shortens the life expectancy of 30-year-old men by 6.5 years and women by 5.3 years. Heavy stress […]
Riding or Strength Training? Which Should You Do First?
By Menachem Brodie The question of whether to lift or ride first is one that nearly every rider who is using strength training has asked themselves. While we may not think that the order has an huge impact, it can in fact be a pretty large factor in whether you stay healthy, or open yourself […]
Zwift Races vs. Intervals: Which is better for fitness?
QUESTION: My cycling buddies say I should be doing intervals if I want to become a better cyclist. But I find them boring and painful. Can I just race on Zwift instead? – Landon J RBR REPLIES: Why ride painful intervals when you can simply race on Zwift to increase your fitness? If you’re training […]
How Do I Improve My Cycling Speed?
By Coach John Hughes Improving your speed isn’t super hard and doesn’t have to be very painful. Here’s how the training paradigm works: Overload -> Damage + Recovery = Improvement Your body is used to riding a particular amount of miles at a certain speed a week. If you want to improve you have to ask your body […]
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Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley A little over two years ago, I wrote a Tech Talk called A Simple, Effective Exercise to Help Relieve Cycling Related Knee Pain. In it, I described something known as the Muncie Exercise, which was (at the time) starting to help me get past debilitating knee pain. If you […]