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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

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

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

Training for Cyclists: Cycling 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

Fitness programmes

How to design a sports-specific fitness programme

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.

athletes' lungs | training | asthma | lung diseases

How training takes its toll on athletes' lungs

vVO2max workouts

New vVO2max workouts lead to impressive gains in fitness

Pedalling technique | Cycling

Pedalling Technique: why pedalling fast is more efficient

Pyruvate supplements

Pyruvate supplements get the thumbs down

Coffee

Coffee to go: how caffeine may shave seconds off your time

Creatine

Creatine: Sedentary elderly gain most from creatine supplementation

Distance events

Distance Events: The risks of going long: when the super-fit endurance athlete turns into the heart attack victim

Metabolism

Metabolism: You do have a 'fat-burning zone', but do you really want to go there to burn off fat?

cycling | world hour record

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

hot weather performance | cooling devices

Hot Weather Performance: When you're cycling in the heat, will this gizmo keep you cool?

Maximal Lactate Steady State pace

Maximal Lactate Steady State Pace: An easy way for runners to estimate Maximal Lactate Steady State pace

dehydration and performance

Dehydration And Performance: We've said it before and we'll say it again: even on cool days, dehydration can seriously damage your performance. Here's a guide to avoiding it

These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance

These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance

endurance athletes training methods

Endurance athletes training methods

endurance athletes workouts

Endurance Athletes Workouts: You may (mistakenly) think this training method is old hat,
but it is brilliant for endurance athletes. Here are a couple of suggested workouts

These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance

These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance

carbohydrate loading research

carbohydrate loading Research: A revolutionary new way to slam 20 per cent more glycogen into your muscles.

Fluid replacement

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

Nutritional tips

Nutritional Tips: A quick sampling of health & fitness boosters from PP's library of research.

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.

Vitamin E

Can Vitamin E (a-tocopherol) supplementation boost the performances of endurance athletes? Some sports nutritionists think that it might.

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.

Triglycerides

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

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