The Power Meter Handbook
The Power Meter Handbook

Author: Joe Friel

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1937716198

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In The Power Meter Handbook, Joe Friel offers cyclists and triathletes a simple user’s guide to using a power meter for big performance gains. In simple language, the most trusted coach in endurance sports makes understanding a power meter easy, no advanced degrees or tech savvy required. Cyclists and triathletes will master the basics to reveal how powerful they are. Focusing on their most important data, they’ll discover hidden power, refine their pacing, and find out how many matches they can burn on any given day. Once they understand the fundamentals, Friel will show how to apply his proven training approach to gain big performance in road races, time trials, triathlons, and century rides. With The Power Meter Handbook, riders will: Precisely match their training to their race season Push their limits step by step Track fitness changes--reliably and accurately Peak predictably for key events Vastly improve training efficiency Power meters aren’t just for the pros or racers anymore. Now The Power Meter Handbook makes it easy for any cyclist or triathlete to find new speed with cycling’s most advanced gear.

Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling
Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling

Author: Dirk Friel

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931382755

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Be honest: trainers are no fun. But on days when you're short on time or the weather is just unbearable, a trainer or spin bike means staying on track, maintaining your hard-earned fitness, and putting the hurt on your competitors in the early season. Workouts in a Binder(R) for Indoor Cycling makes indoor rides more interesting and much more effective than simply spinning through TV re-runs. This sweatproof book offers 60 workouts from USA Cycling coach and former pro cyclist Dirk Friel and Wes Hobson, ITU medalist and USOC Triathlete of the year. Each workout is designed to produce a specific training effect from Joe Friel's Training Bible approach: Endurance, Force, Speed Skills, Muscular Endurance, Anaerobic Endurance, and Power. You can use a power meter, heart rate monitor, or perceived exertion to make sure you're in the right zone for each workout. Pepper these workouts into your existing training plan or use one of six plans in the book to build your off-season fitness. Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling is sweatproof and spiral bound to lie flat on your spin bike or near your trainer. It's compact enough to travel with you to a hotel gym. Just one problem: Now you have no excuse to bag a ride on a rainy day.

Cycling Workout Handbook
Cycling Workout Handbook

Author: Terri Schneider

Publisher: Hatherleigh Press

Published: 2018-10-23

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1578267714

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A workout collection for both fitness cyclists and multi-sport athletes. Whether cycling for fun and fitness or training for a century ride, The Cycling Workout Handbook is your comprehensive training resource from top multi-sport athlete and coach Terri Schneider. The Cycling Workout Handbook includes training programs with calculated periodization and regular recovery cycles for maximum fitness benefit. The Cycling Workout Handbook provides easy-to-follow programs divided weekly and by athletic level. Training tips and expert notes are included, as well as gear recommendations.

Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.
Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 2nd Ed.

Author: Hunter Allen

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1937716155

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Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan, PhD have completely revised the book that made power meters understandable for amateur and professional cyclists and triathletes. Power meters have become essential tools for competitive cyclists and triathletes. No training tool can unlock as much speed and endurance as a power meter--for those who understand how to interpret their data. A power meter displays and records exactly how much energy a cyclist expends, which lends unprecedented insight into that rider's abilities and fitness. With the proper baseline data, a cyclist can use a power meter to determine race strategy, pacing, and tactics. Training and Racing with a Power Meter makes it possible to exploit the incredible usefulness of the power meter by explaining how to profile strengths and weaknesses, measure fitness and fatigue, optimize workouts, time race readiness, and race using power. This new edition: Enables athletes to predict future performance and time peak form Introduces fatigue profiling, a new testing method to pinpoint weaknesses Includes two training plans to raise functional threshold power and time peaks for race day Offers 75 power-based workouts tuned for specific training goals This updated edition also includes new case studies, a full chapter on triathlon training and racing, and improved 2-color charts and tables throughout. Training and Racing with a Power Meter, will continue to be the definitive guide to the most important training tool ever developed for endurance sports.

Ride Inside
Ride Inside

Author: Joe Friel

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1948006235

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From bad weather to business travel to traffic safety, there are dozens of reasons why cyclists and triathletes take their rides inside. Although indoor cycling workouts offer the ultimate control over workout conditions, most inside riders don’t get the most out of their trainers or spin bikes. RIDE INSIDE offers cyclists and triathletes a smart guide to getting more fitness from every indoor cycling workout. From the world’s most experienced personal cycling coach, Joe Friel, RIDE INSIDE reveals all the unique aspects of indoor riding: Mental aspects like motivation, focus, and enjoyment Changes in upper body stability, posture, and pedaling technique on a stationary bike Respiration, hydration, and cooling Inherent changes in power output Lower leg tension and eccentric loading from flywheel momentum Lower effort from lack of terrain changes, headwinds, and crosswinds Road-like feel Different shifting patterns All these differences of indoor riding add up to a big impact when the rubber hits the road. Drawing from the foundations of Friel’s classic training guides, The Cyclist’s Training Bible and The Triathlete’s Training Bible, RIDE INSIDE shows how to apply smart and proven training concepts to indoor cycling. Riders will get expert guidance on the best ways to set up a trainer or smart trainer, how to modify outdoor workouts for indoor cycling, how to better monitor power and RPE, and how to use social online training platforms like Zwift to make training better and not worse. Most critically, RIDE INSIDE shows cyclists and triathletes how to do indoor cycling workouts that actually meet their training goals instead of compromising.

Tom Danielson's Core Advantage
Tom Danielson's Core Advantage

Author: Tom Danielson

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1937716295

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Tom Danielson’s Core Advantage offers a simple, highly effective core strength program for cyclists. This comprehensive approach shows the 50 essential core workout exercises that will build strength and endurance in the key core muscles for cycling--no gym membership required. Professional cyclist Tom Danielson used to have a bad back. He shifted in the saddle, never comfortable, often riding in pain. Hearing that core strength could help his back, he started doing crunches, which made matters worse. He turned to personal trainer Allison Westfahl for a new approach. Danielson and Westfahl developed all-new core exercises to build core strength specifically for cycling, curing Danielson’s back problems. Better yet, Danielson found that stronger core muscles boosted his pedaling efficiency and climbing power. Using Danielson’s core exercises, cyclists of all abilities will enjoy faster, pain-free riding. Cyclists will perform simple exercises using their own body weight to build strength in the low back, hips, abs, chest, and shoulders without adding unwanted bulk and without weights, machines, or a gym membership. Each Core Advantage exercise complements the motions of riding a bike so cyclists strengthen the right muscles that stabilize and support the body, improving efficiency and reducing the fatigue that can lead to overuse injuries and pain in the back, neck, and shoulders. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced training plans will help bike racers, century riders, and weekend warriors to build core strength throughout the season. Each plan features warm-up stretches and 15 core exercises grouped into workouts for injury resistance, better posture, improved stability and bike handling, endurance, and power. Westfahl explains the goal for each exercise, which Danielson models in clear photographs. Riding a bike takes more than leg strength. Now Tom Danielson’s Core Advantage lays out the core strengthening routines that enable longer, faster rides.

The Cyclist's Training Bible
The Cyclist's Training Bible

Author: Joe Friel

Publisher: VeloPress

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1937716244

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Coach Joe Friel is the most trusted name in endurance sports coaching, and his Cyclist's Training Bible is the most comprehensive and reliable training resource ever written for cyclists. This new edition of the bestselling book includes all of the latest advances in training and technology. Using this book, cyclists can create a comprehensive, self-coached training plan that is both scientifically proven and shaped around their personal goals. Friel empowers athletes with every detail they need to consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing to race. This fourth edition includes extensive revisions on the specifics of how to train and what to eat. Friel explains how cyclists can: best gauge intensity with power meters and other new training technology to maximize form and fitness and reduce fatigue; more knowledgeably and accurately make changes to their annual training plan over the course of a season; dramatically build muscular endurance with strength training; improve body composition and recovery with smarter nutrition. With more case studies to draw from and multiple contingency plans for those times when training doesn't progress as planned, The Cyclist's Training Bible continues to be the definitive guide to optimal cycling performance.

One-Hour Workouts
One-Hour Workouts

Author: Scott Molina

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934030585

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With uncompromising quality and a no-nonsense approach to training, these 50 one-hour workouts fit even the most hectic schedule to keep season goals on track.

101 Cycling Workouts
101 Cycling Workouts

Author: David Ertl

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1600379303

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Whether you are a recreational cyclist, a bicycle racer or a triathlete, 101 Cycling Workouts is a must-have guide to help take your cycling to a new level. Rejuvenate and refresh your cycling training with a wide variety of workouts you've never thought of before. Add challenge to your training by trying new workouts that will develop you into a better and more fit cyclist. These workouts will add depth to your training by working on all the physiological systems of a complete cycling training program, including endurance, aerobic and anaerobic fitness, strength, speed and power. Additional non-cycling workouts and gym workouts are included to supplement your training on the bike. Use these workouts to train harder, smarter and more efficiently by making the most of your vital training time.

Bicycle Repair Manual
Bicycle Repair Manual

Author: Chris Sidwells

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-05-19

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0756662206

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From mountain bikes and road racers to hybrids, the Bicycle Repair Manual helps riders keep their bikes in peak condition. Perfect for beginners and dedicated cyclists alike, this updated guide to bicycle repair includes the latest technological advances in cycling, troubleshooting charts, hints and tips for diagnosing and problem, and servicing schedules.