By Rick Schultz, MBA, DBA How to Gain Up to 20% on Your Next Functional Threshold Power Test Or, Let’s see what your real potential is. Disclaimer Here’s a testing protocol to show you your absolute 100% potential for a 20 minute Functional Threshold Power (FTP) effort. This FTP test shouldn’t count towards an actual…
By Coach John Hughes RBR reader Dan Austad asked on September 12, “I am planning to do the National Senior Game’s 5K time trial on June 15 and the 10K time trial on June 16, 2018. (If I get an invitation maybe the road races on June 18 and 19) and then do Paris-Brest-Paris (PBP),…
By Gabe Mirkin, MD A study of 798 asymptomatic and apparently healthy master athletes (runners, cyclists, triathletes, rowers and hockey players), 35+ years old, who exercised fairly vigorously 3-7 days a week, found that 10 percent had greater than 70 percent blockage of the arteries leading to their hearts (BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine,…
By Coach John Hughes The Case of Walt Last week I described the case of my client Walt. Walt is an experienced ultra athlete and is training for a 500-mile race in October, longer than he’s ever ridden. Although you probably aren’t a long-distance rider you can learn from Walt’s experience. August 18-19 Walt raced…
By Coach John Hughes My client Walt is training for a 500-mile race. He had an excellent race at the Mid-Atlantic 24 Hour on August 18-19. The race was stopped at 16 hours 37 minutes. Our plan was for him to cover about 286 miles by then. He actually rode 307.05 miles and averaged 18.5…
