Cycling Past 50, 60 and Beyond Bundle
Three eArticles in PDF format, stored in your account for download and printing.
Includes the 3 Cycling Past 50, 60 and Beyond Series eArticles: Fit for Life, Peak Fitness, and Training with Intensity.
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In this 3-article series Coach John Hughes shares his personal insight and the current research into how different physiological systems worsen with age, and how to fight back with smart training.
What’s inside
- Fit for Life (34 pages): how aging affects your athletic capabilities, the Athletic Maturity quiz, and exercise options beyond road cycling including circuit strength training
- Peak Fitness (39 pages): four specific week-by-week programs for endurance, power, speed, and aerobic capacity
- Training with Intensity (27 pages): why hard riding slows aging, with five levels of training and almost 40 workouts
About this bundle
Cycling Past 50, 60 and Beyond: Fit for Life, at 34 pages of detailed info, discusses the normal changes our bodies undergo as we age, and how these changes affect our athletic capabilities. It also lays out Hughes’ concept of Athletic Maturity, a way of gauging how well you are managing the normal aging process. The more mature that you are as an athlete (anyone who exercises regularly), the fitter you are overall, the more you’ve slowed the inevitable decline that comes with aging. And it shows you how to evaluate (or re-evaluate, if you’ve already taken the quiz) your Athletic Maturity.
The article shows how you can exercise in different ways to be fitter for life and have fun. It provides a variety of exercise options available to you to strengthen your body’s functions that keep you alive and help to keep you fit for life, including the aerobic, skeletal, muscular, neural, core and balance systems. Many of these options to road cycling are also great alternatives as winter approaches. In addition, the article includes a section on circuit strength training, with focused exercises to work your legs, chest, upper back, core, shoulders, and more, plus additional information on weight-bearing activities, flexibility and balance.
In Cycling Past 50, 60 and Beyond: Peak Fitness, at 39 pages, Coach Hughes is your personal coach. The eArticle contains four specific programs to improve your fitness: improved endurance, more power, faster speed, and higher aerobic capacity (VO2 max). The programs are based on the individual programs that he uses with his clients. Before beginning any of the programs, the eArticle describes how to establish your current baseline fitness. Each of the four programs is then divided into two 4-week blocks. By following one of the programs for just 4 weeks, you’ll see measurable progress in your baseline fitness.
Cycling Past 50, 60 and Beyond: Training with Intensity, at 27 pages, explains what happens to your body as you age, and the physiological benefits of riding with intensity: more efficient training, a stronger heart, greater lung capacity, and more powerful muscles. The eArticle describes five progressively harder levels of training and gives 3 to 5 examples each of structured and unstructured workouts for each level, a total of almost 40 workouts.
Note: these are eArticles. Your purchases will be stored as a PDF file in your customer account on the website for downloading and printing.
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