1Training & Health

By Kevin Kolodziejski  A cycling rival said it to me about 30 years ago. Remembering it still makes me smile. After thoroughly thumping him in our area’s traditional spring time trial, he asked if he could accompany me on the base-miles ride he knew I did afterwards. Sometime during the ride, he told me that when I passed him in the race on the climb before … [Read more...] about Do Ultraprocessed Foods Foul Up Your Food IQ?

Question: I’m a long-time cyclist, and I’ve heard that we riders ought to also be strength training. I’m now in my late 70s, but I still ride every day that weather permits. I dislike working out other than cycling itself, and frankly, I no longer have enough energy to both ride and do other exercises on the same day. As long as I keep riding, is strength training really still … [Read more...] about Is strength training really necessary for older cyclists?

By Kevin Kolodziejski  Unless you do all your cycling in Senegal or some other sweltering spot, here’s what I want to know.  How do you handle what those near the equator never experience, what I call the less-than-holy winter trinity? You know, lack of sunlight, slippery roads, and bitter cold. Here’s something you already know. Exercise is one of … [Read more...] about Without a Doubt, the Right Doubts Can Keep You Exercising

By Kevin Kolodziejski  It’s a running joke of mine, not meant to be funny or offensive but simply to express a climber’s disdain for the type of bicycle racing known as the criterium. It goes something like this: That God only permits cyclists to congregate in urban settings and corporate centers to make hundreds of right-hand turns for about an hour at a time … [Read more...] about Why Not Ride and Ruck This Winter?

By Kevin Kolodziejski  In the novel I’m reading, a woman rises from her chair and tells the detective that her bad back doesn’t allow her to sit for long anymore. That the “most essential hour” of her day is the one she spends in the yoga studio. The detective tells her that a friend of his once said that having a bad back is like having a second job. The woman … [Read more...] about You Don’t Need Another New Year’s Resolution: Just a Second Job — and Maybe More Sleep