I have a handful of personal training clients who are interested in improving their cycling performance. Part of the training involves a variety of lunges, squats, single leg exercises, core work, and plyometrics. Everyone of them has told me that they had no idea they had so many muscles they weren’t using and how they […]

The goal of our training is to improve our performance but how do you know if we are improving especially during the winter months when there are few if any events? The best way to gauge progress is to conduct periodic field tests. A field test could be any ride that you can repeat during

Notes from Will Pevelers November 30th Seminar:There is no ‘off-season’, it’s just a change in training. It’s important to keep your aerobic base and add in the strength training.The concurrent training is not detrimental and in fact the strength training should be looked at as a valuable supplement to your training.A properly designed strength training

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If you are the typical road rider and you ended your season in September or October and you have been riding the last six to eight weeks without any structure (ie, riding just for fun, not that training isn’t fun), you can use December to start your training for the 2011 season. If you’ve been

It looks like the first really cold weather is headed our way at the end of the week with temperatures on Friday hitting a high in the mid 30’s. If it’s not heading into the 40’s, I’m training inside. Actually, I even train a lot inside throughout the year just because I like the controlled

About two years ago I had a coach call me with some questions regarding the USA Cycling coaches program. At the end of the conversation he left me an interesting comment. He must have been talking to some athletes that I was coaching or had coached and he told me that having them do intervals

While it used to seem that mosts cyclists didn’t want to spend time in the gym because they incorrectly thought it would add un-needed weight to their body or they thought the time would be better spent on the bike I can tell you that the trend is towards using the gym to improve cycling

As we head into the off season we will most likely be reducing the time we spend on the bike due to decreased daylight and lousy weather. If that is the case, you’ll also be burning fewer calories per day. This is fine as long as you also reduce your caloric intake. Now be honest,

I rode my last time trial at Cleves last Tuesday. I’ll miss the last one this upcoming Tuesday and missed two others, one in July and one in August. All in all, I think rode 18 at Cleves, one in Dayton, states, nationals, and a few others. Thats a lot of high intensity efforts over