By Martin Sigrist Takeaway: The special challenge of road cycling is its combination of duration and intensity. No other endurance sport has events that last as long and require, in order to be the best, intense maximal efforts, with the hardest usually being at the end. This presents special challenges not just to the body…
By Kevin Kolodziejski Uri Geller I’m Not I will make no attempt to bend a metal spoon because of it. I won’t even start playing the Pennsylvania lottery. But I may possess some strange sort of eater’s ESP, based on research I stumbled upon about three weeks ago. Last year I was facing a problem that’s…
By Coach John Hughes On Sunday I met one of my goals for the year. I rode from my house up to the Vista Ridge trailhead, which included 10 minutes of all out effort. I was deep in the hurt locker! Then I enjoyed one of my favorite mountain bike trails. Last year by the…
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…
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…
