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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?
Peak Performance Launches Olympics 2008 Blog
Telling Non-Olympians how to do it too!
Strength Training for Endurance Athletes
Endurance Strength Training - Optimising muscle mass
Quercetin vs Beta-Alanine and their Affect on Body Fat Loss
Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targetted with nutritional supplements?
Strength Training for Cycling at All Levels
Strength training and the importance of leg exercises: novices, experts and clubs cyclists
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
Cycling Training and how carbohydrate, torso training and building endurance can help
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
Physiological Assessment in Cycling
Triathlon Swim: Swim slower for faster triathlon times
Sports Books : A tour de force about the Tour de France
Record-breaking predictions : What are the absolute limits to human performance levels?
Pre-competition: Pre-competition exercise: does timing matter?
Cyclists Warm Up: Which warm-up for cyclists?
Active Warm-ups: How active warm-up boosts performance
maltodextrin-plus-fructose drink
Maltodextrin-plus-fructose Drink: Carb combo drink produces most energy
Menstruation: Cycling proficiency - do the various menstrual phases affect athletic performance?
serum ferritin levels | iron overload
Serum ferritin levels: Iron overload in cyclists
Cyclists sperm: Sperm changes in long-distance cyclists
Sport music: Music as ergogenic aid
Muscle glycogen stores: Supercompensation only works once
hodiola rosea | cordyceps sinensis
Hodiola rosea & cordyceps sinensis - Chinese supplements don't work for cyclists
Cycling position -The best position for untrained cyclists
The biomechanics of safe and effective cycling performance at all ability levels
exercise in the heat | pre-cooling techniques
Pre-cooling techniques increase performance in the heat
Honey - an alternative sports gel
Runners V Cyclists: Runners may have denser leg bones, but cyclists have more muscular arms.
Sodium Bicarbonate: Research suggests it may boost performance in short events, but it can have nauseating side-effects.
Branched-chain amino acid (bcaa)
Branched chain amino acids prevent muscle protein breakdown but they don't boost performance.
creatine | endurance athletes | weight gain
Creatine and endurance athletes - The correct dose of creatine can help endurance athletes - without making them gain weight
ultra-distance competitions | female athletes
Ultra-distance competitions - Go long, young woman!
Dangers Of Ephedrine: Here's what happens when you put a little ephedrine in your coffee.
Increasing speed: short intervals
Increasing Speed: Short Intervals: Athletes use short intervals to increase speed, add variety to their workouts, and improve anaerobic power and lactic-acid tolerance, but short-interval sessions aren't without problems.
Race Pacing
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.
Fat, fitness and performance 2
Fat, Fitness And Performance 2: Let's face it. Even though carbohydrate is the key fuel for athletic performance and slimness-seeking athletes usually avoid high-fat foods as much as possible, you do need to include some fat in your diet
Tapering 1: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance
These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance
Low Back Pain: Cyclists with low-back pain should now adjust their saddles
Interval Training: Interval training can deplete athletes' iron stores
Maximal Lactate Steady State pace
Maximal Lactate Steady State Pace: An easy way for runners to estimate Maximal Lactate Steady State pace
Hyperoxic training | cycling training
Hyperoxic Training: How "hyperoxic" training dramatically improves cycling performance.
Cyclists nutrition: What's the best nutrition strategy for professional cyclists?
Creatine: Sedentary elderly gain most from creatine supplementation
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.
Glycaemic Index: Things mother forgot to tell you about the glycaemic index of your food - and how it influences your training
athletes' lungs | training | asthma | lung diseases
How training takes its toll on athletes' lungs
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.
Between Work Intervals: What you do between work intervals can be as important as the work itself.
Training Volume: Long workouts and fast twitch muscles - a nice combination
Energy drinks and heat fatigue - Dilute energy drinks are best for fighting heat fatigue
Exercise, endocrin and eichotech
Exercise endocrinology and the myth of the Eicotech diet.
Conditioning: Next to cross-country skiing, running is the best type of fitness training for all sports.
overtraining effects on performance
Overtraining Effects On Performance: If you want to prevent staleness and overtraining, keep a record of your quality of sleep and levels of fatigue!
High-fat Gains for Ultra-endurance Performance
High-fat Gains for Ultra-endurance Performance
Anaerobic exercises: Two-week training cycle plus 10-day taper leads to huge gains in anaerobic capacity.
Cycling Uphill: Should uphill cyclists stand or sit?
Adaptogens: What exactly are " adaptogens" and can they really help your performances.
Fluid Replacement: Regular topping-up is far more than a matter of just quenching thirst.
Exercise And Immunity: How your diet affects your immune system when you train
Crash Training: Doubling or even trebling the training load can produce amazing results, but you have to follow strict rules.
These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance
These sizzling 'super sets' will have a dramatic effect on your performance
As the world hour record comes down, how much is due to technology and how much to improved performance?
Running Economy 1: A brief history of the strengthening of the economy, and why it matters
Metabolism: You do have a 'fat-burning zone', but do you really want to go there to burn off fat?
Plasma Expansion: If you're an endurance athlete, you need more blood than the individual who sits around watching the telly.
Personal best training program
Personal Best Training Program: Moderate starts, consistent pacing, and negative splits can carry you to new PBs.
Pedalling Technique: why pedalling fast is more efficient
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.
Fat is on the lips of more and more athletes these days - in both the verbal and gastronomic sense
Strength Training Advice: Is strength training really beneficial for endurance athletes? Here's a sport-by-sport review
saddle sore | mountain biking | scrotal disorders | testicular disorders
Saddle sore and more - the private perils of mountain biking
Rowers work long and hard to perfect their rowing strokes, but should they also learn to coordinate their breathing with their rowing?
Portable Lactate Analyzer: If you want to work out your blood-lactate level, this palm-size American gizmo is surprisingly accurate.
Sport By Sport Diet Guide: Whatever your sport, nutrition should be an integral part of your training and competition strategy. Although the emphasis will vary according to the activity you're involved in, there is a consensus among sports scientists on guidelines that athletes should be aiming for.
Chronotype and Performance: More research on the larks and the owls
veronique billat | exercise research:
Veronique Billat - Exercise Research
Freestyle swimming techniques: Only the development of swimming flumes in the 1970s allowed tests to be performed which compared to those being carried out on such activities as cycling and running.
triathlon training schedule | cross training
It can stop you getting injured and, who knows, might even help you to win
Cycling - Interval Training
High-altitude Eating: Follow this eating plan to stop high altitude getting you down.
Heart Rate Monitor Reviews - Warning: reliance on a heart monitor can seriously damage your performance
For endurance athletes, two of the key problems associated with getting older are a gradual decline in muscle mass and a potential loss of bone density. The missing muscle makes it more difficult to run, cycle or swim powerfully, and the shrinking bones increase the likelihood of injury and osteoporosis.
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
Backward biking | Rehabilitation
Is 'backward biking' a good rehab activity?
Tapering And Performance: In order to be the best in whatever swimming discipline, competitive athletes and their coaches are constantly seeking new and effective methods to improve performance.
hot weather performance | cooling devices
Hot Weather Performance: When you're cycling in the heat, will this gizmo keep you cool?
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.
creatine side effects | creatine facts
Creatine side effects: are we to believe the latest scare stories about creatine?
Coffee to go: how caffeine may shave seconds off your time
Building Bone-mass: Hoping to build bone mass? Try squash and weight lifting!
Fluid Replacement: After warm-weather workouts, you must rehydrate.
Fast Pedalling: Why fast pedaling makes cyclists more efficient.
VO2max for Cyclists
Triglycerides: Putting medium-chain triglycerides in your sports drink can increase your endurance.
endurance athletes immune systems
Endurance Athletes Immune Systems: Endurance athletes who swill a carbohydrate drink are not only helping their muscles but also their immune systems.
Sports Drinks: When sports drinks don't work
Owen Anderson answers training queries
Sport nutrition
Strength Training: Does strength training bring out the killer in you?
Hydration: Drink your way to winning performances: the seven secrets of hydration.
Respiratory Training
Post Workout Burn: After you've finished a workout, your body is not finished working.
Creatine Effects: A man who is showing athletes how to use advances in sports nutrition to produce dramatic improvements in their performances.
Tapering 2: What form of tapering works best in which sports? Here's a critical review of the research
carbohydrate loading Research: A revolutionary new way to slam 20 per cent more glycogen into your muscles.
What time is it inside your body? The answer may determine the effectiveness of your training - and your performance
Cross Training Workouts
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
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.
Report On Blood Lactate 2: Things your mother forgot to tell you about blood lactate
Distance Events: The risks of going long: when the super-fit endurance athlete turns into the heart attack victim
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.
Female cyclists | health | nutrition
Female cyclists health and nutrition: A guide to the proper care and feeding of female cyclists.
New vVO2max workouts lead to impressive gains in fitness
Cross-training: Can runners pedal their way to faster 5K times?
Tapering programme | cycling training
Tapering Programme: Using science to help design a tapering programme for cyclists.
breathing techniques in running
Breathing Techniques In Running: If you let your mind control your heart, you can improve your performances
How to design a sports-specific fitness programme
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.
Nose strips | Breathe Right External Nasal Dilator,
Here's the scientific verdict on those nose strips - the damned things don't work
Cross Training: Triathletes are right to combine cycling and running in the same training session
Macronutrients - Carbohydrates: the Fuel of Choice for Serious Athletes
Carbohydrates: the Fuel of Choice for Serious Athletes
Can Vitamin E (a-tocopherol) supplementation boost the performances of endurance athletes? Some sports nutritionists think that it might.
Fluid Replacement: If you're exercising for an hour or less in moderate temperatures, taking in water may actually hamper performance
Tendinitis (inflammation of a muscle tendon) is without doubt the most common cause of lower-leg pain.
Nutritional Tips: A quick sampling of health & fitness boosters from PP's library of research.
Heart Rate Monitor Reviews - Warning: reliance on a heart monitor can seriously damage your performance
emergency training | cycling training
If you need to get into competitive shape fast, follow the example of these South African cyclists.
endurance athletes training methods
Endurance athletes training methods
Interval Training 1: How to strike and sustain VO2max gold, and other benefits of high-quality workouts
Lactate: How to boost lactate threshold and why it will lift your performances.
As the world hour record comes down, how much is due to technology and how much to improved performance?
Creatine: Another knock for creatine - it doesn't seem to help cyclists.
Fat As Fuel: What value are medium-chain triglycerides as an energy source for endurance athletes?
Pyruvate supplements get the thumbs down
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.
Hdl Cholesterol: Fat is on the lips of more and more athletes these days - in both the verbal and gastronomic sense
Strength Training Routines: Is strength training really beneflcial for endurance athletes? Here's a sport-by-sport review
Tandem cycling: Mismatched fitness levels? Try a tandem
Questions
Is low level "same sport" the best method for active recovery?
I find it hard to get on my bike but keep the intensity low enough for active recovery, especially when I plan for the entire week to be a recovery period.
Check this article, sure broccoli is good and cheaper to help boosting your O2 levels in any event. Test it yourself. http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080118/broccoli-good-for-the-heart
Is cycling a plyometric exercise?
According with some articles, the force on the pedal should be applied between 1-4pm of the pedal stroke.
Kids age for competitive cycling and distance running?
Hey, I have a 7 years boy, I read that cycling and distance running (aerobic endurance) are not early specialization sports (contrary to swimming), although skills and physical literacy are worked ear
High performance bike crankset ?
Did anyone test this new crankset? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThI2A5bs1Rg
Did anyone test this crank length formula? http://www.google.com.co/search?hl=es&q=Crank+length&meta=
Any fast and effective ways to lose bodyfat?
I'm not afraid to work hard guys, all round I am pretty fit & quick but i would like to drop some bodyfat. Thank's to those who replied to my previous question they all helped me a lot. Cheers!
I am an elite level cyclist. I was having a lot of lower back pain and noticed that I was sitting crooked on my bicycle saddle.
Anyone here have read the book of Dr Romanov for Triathlon? It seems interesting. Please comments about.
Cycling Positions and Technique? Hip forward/backward in bike?
Which is the best bike position (seat position - seat tube angle) in triathlon considering the subsequent running style?
I am a 43 year old male, length 181cm and 66 kg. I am a cyclist and ride my bicycle 4 to 8 hour's a week. In Sept I will participate in a Road Cycling Championships for the first time.
How to work out a subject's VO2 max...
Does anyone know of a more suitable equation for working out a person's VO2 max ??
How many hours of triathlon training should I do?
I am a serious wanna-be triathlete, and I want to become the best I can become.
I fell on my left hip area while cycling? Could it be a hematoma?
I ran into a cyclist who was riding in front of me. I fell on my left side. My left hip area, below my hip bone grew like a softball lump there. This lump has not gone down in two weeks time.
I want to do Triathlons, but that involves being good on the bike. but I haven't rode a bike for years.
Does anyone know of any light drills for BMX racing?
Drills in particular for a young rider(11 years) and for his father who recently moved from football to BMX racing
I want to strengthen my legs but I have no equipment, any suggestions?
To the vegan athletes and to well research types :), what does a day of food hold for you (the vegans)? Or what might it hold (for the well researched types)?
Is it possible to get by without bread and starchy carbohydrates?
I am a vegetarian, and I really love fruit and veg a lot, but I do not eat potato, pasta, rice and bread. Don't like them and would prefer immensely not to eat them.
What are the ways of treatment? Are there ways to treat it without involving gain of body mass, and more particularly, without gaining fat?
What is the benefit of Coenzyme Q10 and training performance
For use in a cycling program?
What do you think of the Peak Performance Premium area? (!)
As the main provider of information in this area, I'd like to find out what you think about the videos and the articles in particular.
Best training for a long bike ride - with complications!
I have a froend who is 65 and was a fiarly good distance cylcist. He was then diagnosed with parkinsons, which is in early stages and copntrolled by drugs.
I am a 21 year old male competitive cyclist and have been struggling with over training syndrome and trying to recover.
What does "Whey Protein" do for you?
I know people who out it in fruit smoothies or energy drinks, but wat is it and what does it do?
'm 25 yrs woman.. am I too Old to get into training?!
I am 25 yr old woman, have always been into sport since school.., always enjoyed it but being from India, never had very good resources for training(other than cricket of course) plus women and sport
To train carrying weight or not?
Is it better to train for cycling carrying a weight and then how much weight is good without stressing your body? or is it better to get used to race conditions?
Effect of gender stereotypes on sporting goals/achievements?
any thoughts towards this topic? do you know of any articles i can read up on? thanks so much for your time
Hi this is my first post on this forum so forgive me if this is a regularly answered question.
How much effect does carrying weight effect cycling?
I ride to and from uni, work, etc. I carry clothes, a towel, etc. in a backpack that would weigh about 8kg I also have a bike that weighs 13kg.
What is the best thing to eat the night and morning before a ride?
i am going away for the weekend and i have a 26k ride on saturday, then going to the south downs on sunday for more of the same. so i want to prepair properly.
As a teenager would they affect your hormones?
How much time do you think is required to train effectively for an Ironman? A first one, that is. I also work full-time. Anyone ever done one?
What is the optimum pedling method for road cycling?
Just downward motion or combining downward and up-pull.
How do I improve my fitness fast?
I need to improve my fitness asap......
When should a triathlete travel before a sea level race?
We live and train in Mexico city at 2300 meters above sea level. I have received conflicting evidence regarding travelling to sea level races.
More distance or intensity on my bike?
I had double pneumonia and pleurisy last September which was very stubborn to go.
Just broken my wrist, have a race in 5 weeks can i still compete?
I have just broken my wrist and have a race in 5 weeks can i still compete?
What are the best exercises for improving strength as a road cyclist?
I race 40km crit races and want to move from c grade to b grade next season.
I have dificulty shaping the lower part of my stomach. What exercise can I do to reach that area.
How do you tell if you have shin splints. I have a pain in my left leg above my ankle, but I don't know what it is.
How do I loosen my hamstrings?
I have really tight ham strings and it affects me physically. What is a good stretch or exercise that will help me to loosen them.
Plyometric/Neural adaptation drills for running. Any for cycling?
PP brought out an article about 7yrs ago on plyometric drills and how they improved 5 k times. Can anyone tell me what issue that was as I'd like to refresh myself with them.
I'm a star 2 spinning instructor and am interested to hear your opinions on the good points + bad ..likes and dislikes of a 45 min class.
How can I get the best beginners training in cycling?
I m 30 plus n training to get speed n endurance plus a healthy lifestyle.
Please can you help me with specific weight training to assist in movement and conditioning
I have just started cycling and would like to improve my speed
I average 25km/h on a reasonably hilly 20km run but would like to do better as my bike is fast becoming my main form of transport.
Are the eas myplex drinks good?
is eas myoplex good for your body does it have any side effects any one tried it yet?
Whats everyones views on the use of ice baths?
Does anyone here use them regularly? If so how long for?
Any ideas on how to loosen muscles without strenuous stretching?
apparently i have ridiculousy tight calf n thighs, and have been told to stretch more, i was hoping someone could maybe point me in the right direction as to which stretches to do without injuring mys
Formula for determining HRmax - Does it apply to all fitness levels?
Does the standard formula for determining HRmax (220 minus age in years) hold true for all levels of fitness? Is it not based on "sedentary" individuals?
uses the the entire lower body, to what extent does it work the hamstrings and calves?
Should I weight train to lose weight?
I run, swim and cycle (doing at least one or a combination of the three each day for at least 1 hour per day). I also do weight training 1-2 times per week.
How do you condition fast twitch fibres?
I hear that is what makes you faster. This is because I am looking to get a faster time in my 100m and 200m
Opinion. If you could only do one aerobic exercise, which would it be?
Facts are lovely. Which one provides the best overall benefits?
How to cycle faster on shorter rides?
I do mainly long distance rides. I generally average about the same speed for 50km, 100km or 200km (depending on conditions - hills, wind etc).
Is cycling JUST for losing weight?
I am 30 yrs. old. I want to build strong, muscular legs, but people tell me that cycling is the wrong sport for that purpose.I have always been very lean and cut.
Comparison charts for 1 minute of sit ups, push ups and press-ups?
Does anyone have charts for adults performing 1 minute of sit-ups, push-ups and press-ups?
I'm having problems with a constant numb pain in my lower back. It sometimes feel as if it's coming from my hamstrings. It gets worse after more intense running sessions.
How should i train and what do i have to do?
Im doing a 1/10 IRON MAN on the 12 April 08 in South Africa, its 380km swim, 18 km Cycle and 4.2 km run,it just seems so hard for me, my boyfriend has done 5 IRON MAN'S going on the 6th.
Time Trial set up and specific training
Can anyone out there advise me on some easy points to check I have the correct set up position on my timne trail bike as I am a novice to the sport.
Heart rate gets higher for high intensity work though I get fitter ?
Me and some friends are cycling during the summer, and do quite a lot of spinning during the winter season.
How can I reduce chronic hard muscle after exercise?
I am 43 year old male, 150lbs, and 5'11".
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Serum ferritin levels: Iron overload in cyclists
Normally in sport it is iron deficiency that gives cause for concern.
Cyclists sperm: Sperm changes in long-distance cyclists
Male endurance cyclists may be at risk of significant changes in the structure if not the quality of their sperm, according to a new study
To watch Lance Armstrong grit his teeth and accept the challenge of a rival on a mountain stage in the Tour de France counts for me as one of the highlights of modern sport.
To watch Lance Armstrong grit his teeth and accept the challenge of a rival on a mountain stage in the Tour de France counts for me as one of the highlights of modern sport.
