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Cycling training: how to approach multi stage cycling events

The physiological and psychological demands of riding in a cycling tour


Speed cycling: how reducing your drag will improve your cycling performance

How cyclists can combat aerodynamic drag


Aerodynamics: addressing your riding technique will improve your cycling racing

Cycling aerodynamics


Cycling Equipment: The effect of aerodynamics and drag on cycling performance

How to prevent aerodynamics and drag from ruining your performance


Strength Training for Cycling at All Levels

Strength training and the importance of leg exercises: novices, experts and clubs cyclists


The test of time – testing and tapering for a cycling PB!

The test of time – testing and tapering for a cycling PB!


Road cycling: Interval training for speed

Interval training to improve anaerobic power and sprinting ability in road cycling


Poor Biomechanics Can Compromise Cycling Technique

Are your Biomechanics causing you Knee Pain?


Strength Training for Endurance Athletes

Endurance Strength Training - Optimising muscle mass


Zone Training: Planning Your Cycling Training Program

Zone Training for Cycling to help you get the Yellow Jersey


Sports Nutrition information: Energy Drinks

Sports drinks – can you have too much of a good thing?


Carbohydrate benefit during cycling

How carbohydrate affects your mood


Endurance Training with Phosphatidylserine

Phosphatidylserine – a magic bullet for endurance?


Chronobiology and the Internal Clock

Chronobiology – how timing could give you the edge


Cycling Injury: Choose The Right Bike To Avoid Injury

How Choosing The Right Bike Can Help Avoid Injury


Cycling Training: Aerodynamics and Stamina

Don't Let Drag Interfere With Your Cycling Training


Sports News: Cycling Training

Cycling Training and how carbohydrate, torso training and building endurance can help


Research Round-Up: endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration

endurance, ergogenic drugs, hydration and vibration


Interval Training and Fitness for Cyclists

Cycling - the road to success


Dietary Performance Enhancement

Burning More Fat to Increase Periodization


Nutrition Advice for Endurance Cyclists

Nutrition Advice for Endurance Cyclists


Cycling Training

Physiological Assessment in Cycling


The Observer Sports Monthly recently unveiled its Top 50 Sports Books

Sports Books : A tour de force about the Tour de France


cyclists warm up

Cyclists Warm Up: Which warm-up for cyclists?


record-breaking

Record-breaking predictions : What are the absolute limits to human performance levels?


active warm-ups

Active Warm-ups: How active warm-up boosts performance


Pre-competition

Pre-competition: Pre-competition exercise: does timing matter?


triathlon swim

Triathlon Swim: Swim slower for faster triathlon times


maltodextrin-plus-fructose drink

Maltodextrin-plus-fructose Drink: Carb combo drink produces most energy


cyclists sperm

Cyclists sperm: Sperm changes in long-distance cyclists


menstruation

Menstruation: Cycling proficiency - do the various menstrual phases affect athletic performance?


sport music

Sport music: Music as ergogenic aid


serum ferritin levels | iron overload

Serum ferritin levels: Iron overload in cyclists


muscle glycogen stores

Muscle glycogen stores: Supercompensation only works once


hodiola rosea | cordyceps sinensis

Hodiola rosea & cordyceps sinensis - Chinese supplements don't work for cyclists


Cycling Biomechanics

The biomechanics of safe and effective cycling performance at all ability levels


cycling position

Cycling position -The best position for untrained cyclists


exercise in the heat | pre-cooling techniques

Pre-cooling techniques increase performance in the heat


Cycling - Interval Training

Cycling - Interval Training


Sports Injuries: mountain biking is linked to scrotal and testicular disorders

Saddle sore and more - the private perils of mountain biking


Cycling: endurance cyclists can improve their VO2 max by increasing their exercise intensity

These simple workouts will help cyclists boost their VO2max.


Cycling technique: research shows cyclists should aim for fast pedalling rates on both flat and inclined routes

Why pedalling fast is more efficient for the cyclist


Exercise bike training workouts

Hot workouts for cold winter days - all you need is pedals and a wheel


Cycling racing: are records being broken due to advances in technology or improvements in ability?

The one hour world cycling record


Sports equipment: does the 'Kool-it' device benefit athletes competing in hot weather?

Research suggests 'Kool-it' will not improve the conditions of a cyclist in the heat


Fluid replacement

Fluid Replacement: Regular topping-up is far more than a matter of just quenching thirst.


High-altitude eating

High-altitude Eating: Follow this eating plan to stop high altitude getting you down.


Synchronising muscles with heart

Synchronising Muscles With Heart: Should athletes attempt to synchronize muscular contractions with heart rates during workouts and competitive efforts? At first glance, the idea seems like a strange one, but scientific research suggests that it might be the right thing to do.


Post workout burn

Post Workout Burn: After you've finished a workout, your body is not finished working.


anaerobic exercises training

Anaerobic exercises: Two-week training cycle plus 10-day taper leads to huge gains in anaerobic capacity.


veronique billat | exercise research:

Veronique Billat - Exercise Research


ultra-distance competitions | female athletes

Ultra-distance competitions - Go long, young woman!


Strength training

Strength Training: Does strength training bring out the killer in you?


Exercise, endocrin and eichotech

Exercise endocrinology and the myth of the Eicotech diet.


High-fat diet | cyclists

High-fat Diet: Because they believe that fat is the key fuel which powers their long-distance efforts, endurance cyclists continue to consume high-fat diets, and some even utilize high-fat nutritional supplements in an attempt to add staying power to their performances.


Synchronising breathing

Rowers work long and hard to perfect their rowing strokes, but should they also learn to coordinate their breathing with their rowing?


Runners v cyclists

Runners V Cyclists: Runners may have denser leg bones, but cyclists have more muscular arms.


Triglycerides

Triglycerides: Putting medium-chain triglycerides in your sports drink can increase your endurance.


Boosting vo2max

Boosting Vo2max: Competitive endurance cyclists are always searching for ways to boost their aerobic capacities (V02max) but are seldom quite sure about which workouts will produce the greatest effect.


Cross-training

Cross-training: Can runners pedal their way to faster 5K times?


Carbo loading: depletion phase

Carbo Loading: Depletion Phase: In the good old days of carbo-loading, endurance athletes would complete an especially exhausting workout, consume platefuls of fat-laden goodies for three days or so, and then shift to three days of low-fat, high-carbohydrate food in order to maximally boost their muscle-glycogen levels before an important competition.


abdominal muscle exercises, lower back pain exercises and injury prevention

Whether you aim to run a marathon, perform step aerobics, scrummage for Harlequins, or cycle the London to Brighton, you shouldn't neglect a proper conditioning routine as part of your training if you want to achieve muscular balance and avoid injury.


Building bone-mass

Building Bone-mass: Hoping to build bone mass? Try squash and weight lifting!


Caffeine

Caffeine: Endurance cyclists, triathletes, skiers, and runners still take caffeine before their long-distance efforts, even though no study has ever linked the nerve-jangling chemical with heightened competitive performances over marathon-type distances.


Vo2max

Vo2max Defined: For years V02max has been referred to as a gold standard of aerobic fitness. It is simply a physiological index that can be measured while you are exercising.


Plasma expansion

Plasma Expansion: If you're an endurance athlete, you need more blood than the individual who sits around watching the telly.


Creatine

Creatine: Another knock for creatine - it doesn't seem to help cyclists.


Fat | body fat levels | cyclists

Fat: As competitive cyclists search for ways to improve their workouts and performances, they often focus on their body-fat levels. Most cyclists want to get rid of surplus body fat so that they will have less "excess baggage" to carry as they train and compete.


Hyperoxic training | cycling training

Hyperoxic Training: How "hyperoxic" training dramatically improves cycling performance.


Training: altitude or sea-level

Training: Altitude Or Sea-level: In related work carried out by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, competitive rowers who trained at sea level achieved significantly greater gains in fitness, compared to rowers who trained at altitude.


The hour record

As the world hour record comes down, how much is due to technology and how much to improved performance?


Interval Training 1

Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts


Backward biking | Rehabilitation

Is 'backward biking' a good rehab activity?


Backward biking | Rehabilitation

Is 'backward biking' a good rehab activity?


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