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If Training in All Intensities Deliver Solid Results, What Training Should You Do?
If Training Intensities Delivers Solid Results, What Training Should You Do? Training in higher-intensity zones usually brings about more positive adaptations. Yet if you do too much intensity, you’ll stagnate and/or burn out. So we learn two things from this: One, we need a balance of intensity and endurance, and two, we can target certain…
Read MoreHow to Use the Triangle of Health to Improve Superior Durability and Performance
How to Use the Triangle of Health to Improve Superior Durability and Performance As an age-group runner or masters’ cyclist, the Triangle of Health can build our durability and help us accomplish our best performances. If all you do is run, and all you do is ride your bike, you’re not reaching your performance potential…
Read MoreFueling for Performance: Optimizing with Specifically Timed Nutrition
Fueling for Performance: Optimizing with Specifically Timed Nutrition Whether you’re training for a race or simply trying to improve your personal best, proper nutrition is essential for fueling your body and achieving peak performance. But with so much conflicting information out there, it can be difficult to know what to eat before a workout, on…
Read MoreEndurance Training for Cyclists: Mastering Long Rides
Endurance Training for Cyclists: Mastering Long Rides Bonking on a long ride is the terrible feeling that you’ve suddenly started pedaling in mashed potatoes, your head has detached itself and is now floating in the stars, and your body feels tingly – not in a good way. Yes, that’s a personal experience, and yes, that…
Read MoreFive Tools To Improve Durability And Performance As An Endurance Athletes Over 50
Enhancing Performance: Tools for Endurance Athletes Over 50 The best way to improve your performance as a cyclist or runner is through these five basic habits: consistency, intensity, volume, strength training, and recovery. Regardless of how much time you have to train, if you can be consistent in your training, make sure you get the…
Read MoreStrength Training for Cyclists Over 50: Research Backed Performance Boost
Strength Training for Cyclists Over 50: Research Backed Performance Boost Strength training for everyday recreational and masters cyclists could be as important to your long-term success as doing intervals. The research suggests that incorporating strength training into your cycling routine can yield numerous benefits, from improving power and endurance to reducing the risk of injury.…
Read MoreImprove Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals
Improve Cycling Performance: Unveiling the Effects of Intervals Most types of cycling training will bring results. Whether you’re doing endurance riding or VO2max intervals, you’re going to improve your fitness. Understanding the differences between the types of training can help you tailor your training to your specific goals and needs. Each type of interval targets…
Read MoreMonitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology
Monitor Training Progress: Practical Tools and Technology What is the best way to track training progress to know if your training is actually working? When I was a middle school teacher, it was always critical for me to keep track of data, measure my students’ progress. How else would I know if they were actually…
Read MoreBe Flexible in Following Your Training Plan to Stay Fresh and on Target
Five Ways to Be Flexible in Following Your Training Plan to Stay Fresh and on Target You know those days when you have a specific workout when life gets in the way? You panic. Damn. How am I going to make this up? My entire training plan is now screwed up! Runners and cyclists know…
Read MoreAchieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds
Achieve More Endurance Training Success Using Your Unique Thresholds As regular everyday cyclists and runners, we need to maximize our training time. That means we need to understand how to structure our training to get the most adaptation out of the least amount of training. To do that, we need to know how hard and…
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