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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.































