Interval Training for Cycling: Unlocking Your Full Potential
We talk a lot about different kinds of intervals for cycling training, but we don’t always talk about why we do them! What is the value of doing intervals in the first place? Why do we want to make our riding harder? Well, you don’t really need to do intervals. But if you want to […]
Mastering Threshold Interval Training: HIIT-Style Workouts
The Midwest Gravel Tour kicked off at the start of March at the Dirty South Roubaix in southern Illinois on Saturday. My training has been different over the winter this year, more polarized with slow endurance and more threshold intensity. In the past, I put in long miles with my heart rate firmly in the […]
The Best Strength Training Routines for Runners Over 50 Need More Weight, Fewer Reps
First, I hope we can establish that strength training for cyclists over 50 is scientifically proven as much as anything can be. If you aren’t strength training, you’re leaving performance on the gym floor. Second, we’re going to discuss HOW to do strength training in a way that directly benefits you as an older cyclist. […]
You can optimize endurance training time by monitoring heart-rate variability daily
Do you want to take your endurance performance to the next level? Then it’s time for you to discover the power of personalized training through HRV-based programs. By tracking and analyzing your heart rate variability, you can tailor workouts, recovery periods, and nutrition plans to optimize your endurance training time. Plus monitoring your HRV helps […]
Training Coach for Cyclists: 11 Reasons to Choose a Real Person Over Just Online Programs
Popular online training programs can be incomplete With the proliferation of online training programs, especially ones guided by AI (artificial intelligence), you have so many choices when you’re looking at completing some audacious challenge goal or adventure. Honestly, if you use one of these programs, you will likely improve your performance, simply for the fact […]
Yoga for Runners: 4 Ways to Enhance Your Performance
Yoga for runners and cyclists improves performance through better balance, strength, breath control, and mobility: a lot of benefits for a short time of work! Our yoga practice holds poses longer while we focus on breathing. And that, in turn, helps build strength and mobility. Yoga for runners and cyclists starts with nose breathing I […]
Focus on unique process goals rather than results goals to find more success in training
It’s a constant challenge to focus on the process of training specifically for an event and not develop expectations about results. Whether we are training for a cycling or running event, we start to feel a certain way about how we might end up doing. We – or at least I do – daydream about […]
6 Surprisingly Challenging Exercises to Build Core Strength and Stability
Most research suggests that doing active isometric work to build core strength and stability is far more effective and safer than crunches or sit-ups. For everyday endurance athletes, a strong core is key to creating forward movement. We have to have a stable core (your trunk from hips to shoulders) in order to move our […]
Polarized or Pyramidal or a Blend? Your Unique Training Model is Key to Endurance Success
By now, you’ve likely heard the debate about the best model for training between advocates of polarized training model and pyramidal training model. Essentially, the polarized group says that endurance athletes like runners or cyclists should do most of their training at a long, slow pace and just a small amount of training at a […]
Do These 2 Things to Improve Durability for Endurance Athletes
If you want to improve as a cyclist, ride your bike If you want to improve as a runner, go for a run. But strength training and yoga will make you a more durable endurance athlete over the long run. Build the foundation for durability as an endurance athlete To use an overused metaphor, strength […]
