So How’s Your Winter Form?
Just about this time of year, every year, the griping begins, along the lines of: I’m bloated, I’m in my fat pants, there aren’t any holes left in the belt, my second chin is gaining definition, and so on. It’s my winter malaise. It’s the reflection of normal human seasonal weight gain around the holidays, [...]
Periodization For The Mind
May 9th, 2009
Written by: Josh Horowitz
“I would if I could’ is finished for you now. I would if I could has an ending for you now. From now on, ‘I would if I could’ is over for you and done and finished. You cut it loose you let it go completely and permanently. Your new [...]
Standard or Compact, Now That Is A Question
Written by: Nate Loyal
When looking at new equipment for your bike do the gears ever come to mind? We have so many options out there from 11/23 to 12/27 cassettes or standard and compact cranksets. What do you go with? Not all of us live in flat land areas and [...]
Hey Coach Meat Questions
1. Hey Coach – I am told by all my team mates that I am built like a climber, but I always have problems hanging with the group as soon as we hit the hills. What can I do to become a better climber?
1. you wana [...]
COLDPLAY by Rick Crawford
COLDPLAY
By Rick Crawford
It’s cold. For cyclists it’s a hard time. Frosty fingers, popsicle toes, rosy chapped faces, shrinking members. Most of us in the lower 48 will have to deal with some crappy weather. There is the banana belt below the 35th degree that enjoys moderate temperatures in the winter, but for the rest, it’s [...]
Descending Skills 101
Descending Skills:
There are a few factors to hold in your mind as you enter a turn…
1.) Body position
a. Inside knee angled out toward the turn.
b. Outside leg and arm weighted down / pressure on the outside pedal.
c. Body weight on the center of the bike with focus on weighting down the rear wheel, head is [...]
Training With the Zone 3 Syndrome
By: Josh Horowitz @ Liquid Fitness
The best way to train is by going as hard as you can for as long as you can on every ride you do, right? As we begin the off-season in the northern hemisphere, let’s examine the idea of base training. First up, we discuss the dreaded “Zone 3 plateau” [...]
Pedaling Technique Basics
Pedaling Technique Basics by Michael Smartt @ Smartt Training
(I recently wrote this piece for the Whole Athlete newsletter with the help of Dario Fredrick)
What is “Good” Pedaling Technique?
If you have completed a long season of road, mountain bike or triathlon racing, the fall and winter months are the time to back off from the [...]
Sweatology – Why It Matters
An interesting article from the August 14 edition of The New York Times that
is especially relevant for us endurance athletes. Enjoy.
Sweatology
By ABIGAIL ZUGER
Like the finish line of a long road race, the Times Square subway platform
one recent hot afternoon was a study in wet humanity, from drenched (a large
woman in shorts and a skimpy, sweat-splotched [...]
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BIKE (PART I)
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BIKE (PART I)
By: Josh Horowitz of Liquid Fitness
If I could only give out one piece of cycling advice for the rest of my days as a coach, it would be this. “Conserve energy whenever possible.”
When you ride your bike, whether it is for training, to [...]
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