October 15, 2020 Year-Round Riding for Greater Fitness and Health By Coach John Hughes If you want to improve as a cyclist, your #1 resolution should be to exercise consistently. If you want to live a long and healthy life, your #1 resolution should be to exercise consistently. If you want to reduce stress and…
October 8, 2020 Ask the Coach: Why Are my Legs Sore after a Ride? By Coach John Hughes BR Reader Kenneth asks, “Why my legs are always stiff and achy, even after a few days off the bike they are as sore as they would be if I just finished a race. But when I…
October 1, 2020 Ask the Coach By Coach John Hughes I’m 71 and have been coaching for 25 years. I could retire; however, I enjoy the intellectual stimulation of coaching and the personal satisfaction of helping riders achieve their goals. In addition to personal clients I enjoy writing for RBR because of the interesting questions…
September 24, 2020 Anti-Aging: 8 Tips to Ride Smarter By Coach John Hughes Baseball great Yogi Berra said, “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” In my almost 50 years of riding I’ve found that mental skills are at least as important as physical fitness. Mental skills are just like cycling skills;…
September 17, 2020 Anti-Aging: The Full Body Workout By Coach John Hughes We live in the Rocky Mountains near Winter Park, CO. To the west of us the Williams Fork wildfire is burning and to the north the Cameron Peak fire. Fortunately, neither is nearly as severe as the fires ravaging the west coast and…
