Posts Tagged ‘cycling’
Fueling 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 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 MorePower Training for Cyclists: Incorporating Essential Five Key Movements
Power Training for Cyclists: Incorporating Essential Five Key Movements Cyclists and runners might want to ditch a one-dimensional approach to fitness and start incorporating pushing, pulling, hinging, squatting, and rotating movements into their routine. These multi-joint exercises not only target neglected muscles but also improve overall strength and mobility. These movements are essential for every…
Read MoreInterval Training for Cycling: Unlocking Your Full Potential
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…
Read MoreMastering Threshold Interval Training: HIIT-Style Workouts
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…
Read MoreFocus on unique process goals rather than results goals to find more success in training
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…
Read More6 Surprisingly Challenging Exercises to Build Core Strength and Stability
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…
Read MorePolarized or Pyramidal or a Blend? Your Unique Training Model is Key to Endurance Success
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…
Read MoreDo These 2 Things to Improve Durability for Endurance Athletes
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…
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