QUESTION: My cycling buddies say I should be doing intervals if I want to become a better cyclist. But I find them boring and painful. Can I just race on Zwift instead? – Landon J RBR REPLIES: Why ride painful intervals when you can simply race on Zwift to increase your fitness? If you’re training…
By Coach John Hughes Improving your speed isn’t super hard and doesn’t have to be very painful. Here’s how the training paradigm works: Overload -> Damage + Recovery = Improvement Your body is used to riding a particular amount of miles at a certain speed a week. If you want to improve you have to ask your body…
Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley A little over two years ago, I wrote a Tech Talk called A Simple, Effective Exercise to Help Relieve Cycling Related Knee Pain. In it, I described something known as the Muncie Exercise, which was (at the time) starting to help me get past debilitating knee pain. If you…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. A study from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, found that mice fed diets high in sugar developed severe colitis by increasing harmful colon bacteria and decreasing healthful colon bacteria (Sci Transl Med, Oct 28, 2020;12(567):eaay6218). The researchers fed mice various dietary sugars such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose for…
By Coach John Hughes You have a wonderful family, perhaps you’re an empty nester, you like your job even though it involves some overtime, you and your spouse enjoy your social life, you ride with the club most weekends and ride in the evening during daylight savings time. You aren’t quite as fit as you…
