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Ask the Coach: How Massage Helps

By Coach John Hughes In the Tour de France on Saturday the riders raced through the Alps in the rain. Phil Liggett pointed out that late into the night the soigneurs would be massaging the riders and the mechanics would be working late into the night to get everything ready for Sunday’s mountainous stage. An RBR reader asked about using a roller on his muscles, a form of … [Read more...] about Ask the Coach: How Massage Helps

Mind Over Body

By Martin Sigrist Take away: In becoming the best that you can be the mind is more important than the body. Or, to paraphrase Arnold Palmer, “Cycling is a sport not of miles but of inches. The most important are the six inches between your ears.” Most books on endurance training focus on the body. They tend to be about measuring numbers, zones and physiology. There are … [Read more...] about Mind Over Body

Carbitex CX6 Real-World Application: Lake CX403 Road Shoes

By Sheri Rosenbaum A few weeks back, I posted a Q&A with Carbitex, a manufacturer of flexible carbon fiber textiles. It's a pretty cool technology that Lake Cycling incorporated into their CX403 road shoe design that launched in January. I had the opportunity to talk with Chris Dimmick, General Manager at Lake Cycling, to understand how and why they chose to incorporate … [Read more...] about Carbitex CX6 Real-World Application: Lake CX403 Road Shoes