Editor's Note: We continue our recent series of QTs from the RBR Crew this this week's brief-but-worthy submission from Coach Dan Kehlenbach. After Dan offers his tip, I'll add a bit to it at the end. Here's what he writes: I try and file a "ride plan" with my wife and let her know the general route I plan on taking, just in case something happens. If I change plans … [Read more...] about File a ‘Ride Plan’ With Someone, If Possible
1Training & Health
Plaques are Reversible
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Most heart attacks are caused by lifestyle factors, not by genes, and the prevention of heart attacks depends far more on what you do now than what you did earlier in your life. It is an incredible tragedy that many physicians prescribe statin drugs to prevent heart attacks without also explaining the importance of lifestyle changes. Doctors are too busy … [Read more...] about Plaques are Reversible
How to Cruise Faster on a Bicycle: Speed Without Suffering
By Coach John Hughes One of the truisms of sports is “No Pain, No Gain.” Like many truisms, it’s wrong! I coach endurance riders – not racers – riders who are trainingto do a 100K rides or brevets or a weekend event or multi-day tour. They want to build up their endurance so that they can go the distance, and they often want to improve their cruising speed. They also … [Read more...] about How to Cruise Faster on a Bicycle: Speed Without Suffering
Still Pedaling Off The Pounds
By Coach David Ertl, Ph.D. Season 5 of the Des Moines Cycle Club’s (DMCC) Pedal Off the Pounds Program is in the record books. For the past five years, since I wrote the eBook Pedal Off The Pounds for RBR, my local bike club has been conducting a program by the same name to help get people back on their bikes, eating right, and losing weight. Based along the same lines as … [Read more...] about Still Pedaling Off The Pounds
Should I Intervene – Or Not?
By John Yoder Recently, I was sitting in the bleachers at my grandson’s baseball game when a teenage boy on crutches hobbled to a seat in the first row near me. He was walking by leaning on the top of his crutches, and as he sat down with some friends, he greeted them with the words, “These things hurt,” an obvious reference to the crutches. … [Read more...] about Should I Intervene – Or Not?