1Training & Health

By Kevin Kolodziejski You Probably Don’t Remember This In my initial column, I claimed you and I are alike. That we cycle for the same reasons: comradeship, competitiveness, calorie burn, and most importantly, to magnify feeling. In essence, to experience three months’ worth of highs and lows in a three-hour ride. While I’ll still stand by that statement, … [Read more...] about Create Heat to Beat It on the Bicycle

By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. For maximum health benefits, you should work for both endurance and intensity in your exercise program. We have lots of evidence that exercise prolongs lives by reducing risks for chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, heart attacks and diabetes (PLoS Medicine, January 12, 2021), and adding intensity to a workout increases its health benefits … [Read more...] about Exercise for Both Endurance AND Intensity

By Martin Sigrist Takeaway: Mental strengths can be given a sports specific context by considering them in terms of  “long term” versus “doing it” (e.g. riding a bike) and “emotional” versus “rational”.  This results in four different aspects “Ambition”(long term, emotional), “Informed Planning”(long term, rational), ”Combativity” (riding, emotional) and “Positive … [Read more...] about Building Mental Strength for Cycling

By Martin Sigrist We are in entirely uncharted territory regarding the understanding of how age affects the body, specifically challenging the notion that "older" equals "slower and weaker." Until relatively recently, the mid 1950s in most countries, most people would live relatively active lives just by being alive. As a child in the 1960s, I walked miles every day just … [Read more...] about “Old” Age Fitness Revolution