Getting dropped from cycling group rides is a probability all riders face. Sometimes it’s caused by inadequate fitness, but even fit riders get dropped when they have poor skills and habits. So, for the beginners and those we are welcoming back to group rides, here’s a guide to stop getting dropped. Improve Fitness No duh, …
Hey CTS Fam! Many of you know me as the host of “The Time-Crunched Cyclist Podcast” or you’ve read articles from me on the trainright.com website. Perhaps you’ve seen me at bike races or we’ve ridden together in road, MTB or gravel events somewhere in the world. Today, I’m proud to be coming to you …
By Chris Carmichael, CTS Founder and Chief Endurance Officer Indoor cycling is great for packing a lot of effective training into a short period of time. You don’t need to get dressed in multiple layers or navigate to safe roads for interval training. You can just get on, warm up, and open the throttle. …
Power meters, smart trainers, and smart bikes allow cyclists to train with power indoors and outside. All that data is great, and advanced training software like TrainingPeaks can help make sense of it, but as a coach I see athletes making two big data mistakes: not uploading data consistently and not adjusting threshold values and …
There are no shortcuts to superior fitness, but there are ways to leverage the fundamentals to boost the effectiveness of training. If you have set ambitious goals for this year – and we hope that’s exactly what you’ve done – then it’s time to supercharge the ROI from your efforts! These cycling performance boosters are …
It’s time for a New Year! Here is your to-do list to be faster, stronger, and more fit than you have ever been! And don’t tell me that you’re a year older and therefore you’ll have to accept being slower and less fit. CTS Athlete Frederic Schmid keeps winning US National Championships in every discipline …
Spotify has its Wrapped feature and the Strava app will show you Your Year In Sport, but what if you want to create a more detailed and meaningful review of your cycling training for the year? CTS Coaches use TrainingPeaks to create athlete training plans and monitor athlete performance through uploaded power, heart rate, and …
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is often an opportunity for cyclists to pile on miles and hours. The Rapha Festive 500 (riding 500 kilometers between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve) is one of the original and still popular versions for ending the year with a giant week-long training block. Whether you are …
As a female athlete in my 60s who mostly coaches endurance athletes between 50 and 80 years old (with a few above 90!), I am sensitive to the risks and advantages cold weather training poses for athletes my age and older. My goals are always to reduce barriers to exercise, keep athletes safe, and contribute …
No matter what else I have accomplished in my life, I am invariably introduced to new people as A Cyclist. And once that aspect of my identity is revealed, the questions and assumptions begin. We all have cycling-naïve people in our lives and encounter people who either don’t understand why we ride or use the …