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    Effective Training for Busy Professionals – Part 2

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      Effective Training for Busy Professionals – Part 2   In part one we covered the importance of getting the basics right over fancy gizmos, gadgets and supplements. We covered the first 2 Balance and Patience. Today we will discuss

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    Effective Training For Busy Professionals

    Effective Training For Busy Professionals

        Effective Training for Busy Professionals   Most cyclists aren’t professional cyclists and I would wager most don’t really want to be either. One of the biggest issues for those with a life full of everything else and trying

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    Case Study – Time Crunched Athlete

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        Case Study Time-Crunched Athlete   How did a time-crunched athlete increase FTP from 145 to 225 Watt FTP on 3-5 hours a week over the winter? Here’s How… Athlete – 56-year-old male with no history of bike racing.

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    Out and Back Aero Testing

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      Out and Back Aero-Testing: How to Get Faster   One of the most popular posts I’ve ever written was on Aero-Testing. In that post, I described the process using an outdoor velodrome and doing analysis with Golden Cheetah’s Aero

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    FTP Testing – A How-to Guide?

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        FTP Testing: A How-to Guide?   FTP (Functional Threshold Power) has had so much written and said about it that it’s hard to tell what it is and what it isn’t anymore. I started like many, by doing

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    12-Weeks to Your Event – Part-2

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        12-Weeks to Your Event? How to Maximise Your Training Gains   RECAP: So, you’ve entered an event, training has been a bit hit and miss, but you’ve been doing some on and off, but… now you are 12-weeks

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    12-Weeks to Your Event? – How to Maximise Your Training Gains

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        12-Weeks to Your Event? How to Maximise Your Training Gains   So, you’ve entered an event, training has been a bit hit and miss, but you’ve been doing some on and off, but… now you are 12-weeks out

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    5 Tips for the Time Crunched Athlete

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    5 Tips for the Time-Crunched Athlete Finding time to train is an ongoing battle we all face. We can’t all be pro athletes with 25 hours a week to train and the rest left to eat and sleep! We have

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    Balancing Training – Work – Family and Everything Else!!

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      Balancing Training – Work – Family and Everything Else!   Where to Start? No matter what your training goal is, balancing all the elements of your life is tricky! Whether it’s a partner, kids,  busy job, social commitments, or

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    Getting Your Saddle Height Right!!

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      Getting Your Saddle Height…Right!!   Why Is Saddle Height So Tricky!? It’s a constant source of confusion and frustration…what should your saddle height be? I experimented mainly within about a 10mm range for most of the time, up and

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    Season Review – Learning from Last Year

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      Season Review – Learning from Last Year   Obviously, COVID is still a very present issue everyone has to deal with. From a sporting/cycling point of view. Clearly, races moving and being cancelled makes planning a little more tricky.

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    Planning Your Year

      Planning Your Year Happy New Year Everyone! Hope you enjoyed yourself and are ready to get back to some quality training. Whatever your goal, you will always benefit from having some structure to your training. Having structure requires a

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    Optimising VLAmax for Time Trials

    Optimising VLAmax for Time Trials

    Being a time trial enthusiast, when I first heard Sebastian Weber talk about this it was really eye-opening. I’d spent most of my cycling time trying to increase my threshold power without knowing this very important detail! How frustrating!! However,

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    Understanding Pain in Chronic Cycling Injuries

    Understanding Pain in Chronic Cycling Injuries

      Understanding Chronic Pain in Cycling Injuries   Pain in Cycling Pain and suffering in cycling is something we are all familiar with. Whether it is the pain you feel in the second half of a kilo, to the pain

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    Intensify or Extend?

    Intensify or Extend?

    Key questions How should I make my programme progressive? What do I do when extending is no longer an option? When do I increase the intensity? How can I best create the adaptive signal? Intensify or Extend? When should I

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    Podcast – Optimum Crank Length

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    New Podcast Last week I was interviewed for the Cycling Time Trial Podcast hosted by Mark Florence. The question we tried to answer was around the biomechanics of optimal crank length. We talked about how cranks affect your: Aero Position

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    What Size Cranks do I Need?

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      Optimise Your Crank Length – Podcast Interview   Here’s a summary of the podcast I did with Mark Florence on the cycling time trial podcast. General Info Cycling I worked with a former guest Coach Joe Beer, beat all

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    Cleat Position – How to get it right

    Cleat Position – How to get it right

    Getting Cleat Position Right Cleat position is something we have all tinkered with at some point. When I first had clipless pedals, I accidentally bought cleats with no float!! I had anterior knee pain not long after and was changing

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    5 Awesome Podcasts

    5 Awesome Podcasts

    5 Favourite Podcasts Winter is here and for a lot of us that means a bit more time on the turbo. I use the turbo most of the year anyway as it’s often the only way to fit in the

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    5 Common Bike Fitting Myths

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    5 Most common Bike Fitting Myths Bike Fitting has become increasingly common and the information online is pretty endless. So here is a short post on the 5 most common bike fitting mistakes and how to avoid them. 01 Higher

    coach November 18, 2021 Bike Fitting, Blog No Comments Read more
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