By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. If you want to become stronger and faster and have greater endurance, you need to exercise on one day intensely enough to damage your muscle fibers and feel short of breath and sore on the next day and then train at reduced intensity for as many days as it takes for your muscles to heal and the soreness to lessen. Then you take your next intense … [Read more...] about Recovery: the Key to Cycling Improvement
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What To Expect – Your First Cycling Functional Threshold Power Test
Rick Schultz, MBA, DBA There are numerous articles regarding How to Perform an FTP test, but not much on (a) prepping for or (b) what to expect from your first FTP test. This is surprising since these are the two question I always get from new clients. In this short article, I will share many of the points discussed. At the end of this article, I will also include the … [Read more...] about What To Expect – Your First Cycling Functional Threshold Power Test
Opportunity!
By Coach John Hughes As you know from previous columns I fell five feet off a ladder fracturing my right ankle, which is now in a cast. Like most accidents this wasn’t equipment malfunction — I just did something stupid. I fell straight down on my right ankle and then backwards onto my hip, pelvis and back and fortunately didn’t hit my head. I’m in … [Read more...] about Opportunity!
How to Shift Gears Correctly on a Road Bike
By Jim Langley A couple of weeks ago in this column, RoadBikeRider founder Ed Pavelka explained how easy it was to significantly lower his SRAM eTap gearing. If you missed that, it’s here, After that piece appeared, I thought about Ed’s wireless electric shifting and 22 gears, and it occurred to me that if you were just getting into road riding, you might be mystified … [Read more...] about How to Shift Gears Correctly on a Road Bike
My Accident Is An Opportunity to Stay Fit
By Coach John Hughes As you know from previous columns I recently fell five feet off a ladder, fracturing my right ankle, which is now in a cast. Like most accidents, this wasn’t equipment malfunction — I just did something stupid. I fell straight down on my right ankle and then backwards onto my hip, pelvis and back. Fortunately, I didn’t hit my head. … [Read more...] about My Accident Is An Opportunity to Stay Fit