I have to say I never expected us to be writing about turbo training. I thought we had left that far behind, but here we are! As many of you know, we are locked down in Tenerife during this pandemic. The Spanish government have put in some very strict restrictions on movement. We aren't allowed [...]
So here we are. We now know what we have to do to regain the form of our youth, we have the gym membership ready, the training bike is on the turbo ready for our first interval sessions, the diet is sorted, the recovery routine is perfected and we are mentally committed and ready. How [...]
There are a couple more topics to deal with and then we may be ready to put some sort of training plan together. Clearly there maybe other areas of concern that have not been touched on here but these can be dealt with on the training camps where we can personalise all these for you [...]
We have seen, in recent blogs, the compelling evidence that shows that we lose muscle mass as we age. But is this a bad thing for cyclists? Surely, to climb better, you want to be lighter! Isn’t this what Bradley Wigggins did to win the TdF? Haven’t we seen Chris Froome get lighter? And how [...]
Those of you who have been to our training camps before will be aware that we are really keen on VO2max intervals. They are horrible to do but they work! In many studies, high intensity intervals have been shown to improve your ability to utilise the maximum amount of oxygen to produce power (VO2 max), [...]
So let’s see if we can fill in more of the pieces of this jigsaw. Hopefully you have now realised that this dramatic drop off in performance is NOT a given, that we can control this. You have to be fit and healthy first and foremost and then decided that this active athletic lifestyle is [...]
We are going to be looking at how we successfully put together a training program to start to address the issues of how our bodies alter as we age, as athletes. Before that though, I decided to ask Dominic Cox, my cardiac specialist, (many of you will have ridden with Dominic by now as he [...]
When I looked back at the first blog, I wondered if it was a bit depressing. What did you think? That wasn’t really the idea. I was trying to give you all some hope! The info that we have on ageing is quite damming BUT when you look closely at the few studies that have [...]
Who wants to get old, right? Is it all doom and gloom? Are we all to expect a continued decline in our physical performance that will inevitably lead to slower and slower times? Well, there may be some good news to follow if you are feeling like this. Athletes who are now entering their seventies [...]
This might seem an odd post this month since most people reading this blog started cycling several years ago, but it's an interesting idea to reflect on and makes you think about whether you have everything covered. Most of us learn to ride a bike as a child and just hop on whatever we have [...]
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