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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
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?
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
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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
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 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!
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?


































