We have yet to meet a cyclist who doesn’t want to go uphill faster, but not all hills are created equal. Rolling hills aren’t very long but they often come one right after the other and can add up to a surprising amount of elevation gain. Sustained climbs take patience and power, and the key …
Topics Covered In This Episode: Absolute strength vs. Resilient strength The principles of Foundation Training The differences between Foundation Training and Yoga for performance Foam rolling (does it work and should you do it?) The role of movement in hydrating tissues Getting stronger and faster without increasing muscle size Increasing ‘rate of force production’ Breath …
Virtually no one’s schedule magically gets less busy during the holiday season. Generally it’s the opposite and we must squeeze even more into an already demanding schedule. But we also want to reach the New Year with a training regimen and some fitness still intact. So, how do we approach this balancing act? Here are …
By Jim Rutberg, CTS Pro Coach, co-author of “The Time-Crunched Cyclist”, “Training Essentials for Ultrarunning”, and “Ride Inside“ Trends in endurance training come and go, and long and easy workouts for building aerobic endurance are back in fashion. We’re talking 2+ hours at Zone 2 or even Zone 1. Long easy rides work wonderfully if you …
Although I have enjoyed a quarter century of long-distance trail and ultrarunning, I actually had my first exposure to endurance sports on a bike. In the early ‘90s my wife Shelly and I spent our summers traveling the country by bicycle. Then, between 1994 and 1996 we traveled the world by bike, covering 19,000 miles …
If indoor cycling is going to be a substantial component of your training time – either for a season or year round – it’s best to create a dedicated space where you can leave the trainer and associated equipment set up between rides. Needing to drag the trainer, fans, bike, etc. out and set them …
With Daylight Savings Time ending this weekend, we’ll be rolling the clocks back an hour and ushering in the months of earlier sunsets. Commuters will spend more time riding home in the dark. For mountain bikers and gravel and road riders, it’s a great opportunity to clip on some lights and enjoy cycling at night! …
Topics Covered In This Episode: Benefits of Strength Training Why strength training shouldn’t be just off-season or cross training If you’re going to do strength training, it’s best to do it year round A Simple Process to Follow: 4 Strength Training Levels we use at CTS to identify where to start How to use these …
If you want to go long, burn fat. If you want to go fast, burn carbohydrate. Athletic performance is not that simple, of course, because you burn both – and a little protein – at all times, during all activities, and at any intensity level. However, the basic premise still stands: you rely more heavily …
Catching up with gravel and mountain bike pro Russell Finsterwald is no easy feat. He even goes on vacation fast. The day after winning the final major gravel cycling race of the 2022 season, Big Sugar in Bentonville, Arkansas, and finishing third overall in the Lifetime Gran Prix, Finsterwald flew directly to Mexico for some …