By Richard Ellin, MD, FACP Question: I am 40 years old. For the last 3 years I have participated at local races in my age group. I now train 6-10 hours weekly, and my diet is not perfect but not too bad. At my last checkup my blood test results were: cholesterol, 279, HDL, 54 and LDL, 210. My blood pressure was also high. And an echocardiogram showed a "less than 30% … [Read more...] about Do Cholesterol Drugs Affect my Cycling?
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14 Nutrition Tips for Endurance Riders
By Coach John Hughes “I has been a great week for me. I feel much more comfortable on the bike and I think that is due, in part, to your advice to eat more on the bike. I really worked on that this week and especially on the 80-mile ride I did. It seems to have worked.” — from one of my client’s weekly reports. Summer is here and you’re probably planning a long ride. You … [Read more...] about 14 Nutrition Tips for Endurance Riders
15 Tips for Riding Your Best Century
By Coach John Hughes For many of us the big event of the season is a specific century or a gran fondo in which we want to do our best. You may want to finish your first century. Or have more fun and finish your local century without feeling trashed. Or set a PR in your club’s classic century. Or conquer a particularly hard 100. Or compete against others in a gran fondo. Or … [Read more...] about 15 Tips for Riding Your Best Century
Tennis Elbow: A Home Treatment that Works
by Gabe Mirkin, M.D. You don't have to play tennis to develop tennis elbow. It can be due to any movement that puts excessive force on the wrist muscles. Tennis elbow refers to elbow pain as the result of an injury to the elbow tendons that bend and straighten the wrist. Hold your hand down with your thumb on the outside (lateral to your hand) and your elbow straight. Pain … [Read more...] about Tennis Elbow: A Home Treatment that Works
Overtraining: A Guide for Cyclists
by Arnie Baker “What drives you to succeed, drives you to screw up.” —Mari Holden, World Champion, Time Trial, 2000 Overtraining is a physical and a psychological or emotional state. It is an imbalance between training and recovery, exercise and exercise capacity. The “training effect” is the body’s response to workload stress. If stress is too great, the body cannot … [Read more...] about Overtraining: A Guide for Cyclists