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 Habits”(riding, rational). Success requires mastery…
By Coach John Hughes Aging is an illusion, not a bad dream! Sunday night we had a reunion of about a dozen long-time riders in the Denver Rocky Mountain Cycling Club. Many of us had been riding together since the 1980s. We’re in our 60, 70s and 80s now. Our well-established riding program was designed…
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…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Medical researchers agree that exercising from the early years into old age helps to prevent heart attacks, strokes and cancers, but this month a study from The University of Manchester showed that long-term intense training for racing in animals can damage the atrial-ventricular node that regulates the frequency of heart beats…
By Martin Sigrist Take away: In becoming the best that you can be the mind is more important than the body. Or, to paraphrase Arnold Palmer, “Cycling is a sport not of miles but of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.” Most books on endurance training focus on the body….
