January 18, 2024 Anti-Aging: What’s Your Fitness Age? By Coach John Hughes I’m almost 75 and have the fitness of a 53-year-old (although I felt older shoveling the foot of snow in the driveway this morning). This column explains the importance of your fitness age and how to estimate it. Read more. Fixing Rubbing Hydraulic…
January 11, 2024 How Fit Are You? Part 2 By Coach John Hughes Last week I gave you quiz to assess how fit you are in each type of fitness that’s important for a long, happy, functional lifetime. How Fit Are You? Part 1 This week I’ll discuss how to improve in each type of…
January 4, 2024 How Fit Are You? Part 1 By Coach John Hughes Happy New Year. I made two resolutions: Do You Need A Bicycle Wheel Truing Stand? Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley A few Tech Talks ago, we wrote about how to use bicycle repair stands, one of the foundation tools of home…
These are the most popular newsletter articles of 2023. Don’t Make These 15 Common Bicycling Mistakes By Coach John Hughes Recently I was in Boulder, Colo. for several days and rode each day. The Boulder area is home to literally thousands of riders ranging from pro road, mountain and triathlon racers to pleasure riders out for…
December 21, 2023 How to Maintain Fitness, Gain Freshness and Enjoy the Holidays By Coach John Hughes Brent Bookwalter, who raced for BMC, advises that if you have a choice between an extra 20 minutes of riding or spending that time recovering, choose recovery. Think of the holidays as time for quality recovery, a time…
