Equipment for your Bike

Equipment for your Bike

Behind every successful sport there is an organized and well equipped training schedule. Every proper training session needs well equipped machineries and gears so as to make your training sessions smooth, worthy and effective as far as the performance of an athlete is concerned. In case of cycling some of the most required training equipments are –cycling computers, power meters, turbo trainers... read more

Effective Indoor Training

Effective Indoor Training

This article is about indoor cycling training and ways to make your training indoors as effective and positive as possible. Cycling is an outdoor activity and, therefore, most of the training takes place outdoors as well. To be as good as you can possibly be and avoid injury and soreness, you’ll be doing strength training, cross training and circuit training. Although the ideal place for this... read more

Training in the Base Phase

Training in the Base Phase

Base training is the root of all your plans. It is where your training starts and stems from. It is simple but often done incorrectly. If you want to get all of the potential out of training the base training must be planned and monitored then executed successfully. If you want to know what type of training is included, and how to do it you will want to read on. How to rate your fitness level The first... read more

Overtraining – Good or Bad

Overtraining – Good or Bad

Overtraining will help you to improve your natural abilities, but you must be careful not to hurt your body with too much time on the bike. If you want to make yourself a better rider, sometimes you end up over training. Just because hard work will produce good results does not mean that you have to train to be a better rider. Countless kilometers riding, hours of cross-training, tons of weight lifting,... read more

Planning For The Year

Planning For The Year

If you want to compete at your top level then your will want to periodize your training. Periodizing your training can be done by planning for the year carefully. Long-term planning and scheduling If you have long-term schedule and plans in your training, it is called periodization. In this type of planning for the year and scheduling, each period of your scheduled training program will prepare you... read more

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