When it comes to endurance training, your sleep is just as vital as your workouts. In the age of marginal gains, improving your sleep is the most significant change you can make to improve your performance. This article will cover how you can increase your sleep quality and quantity.
Cyclists ask a lot of their muscles, but not all muscle is the same and different muscle types function in different ways. Let’s examine muscle types and consider how building muscular strength can make you faster.
Endurance athletes are faced with a bevy of nutrition decisions. Carb cycling is a nutrition strategy based on the percentage of macronutrients. Depending on your goals, carb cycling may be the right choice for you.
As a cyclist, the right diet and supplementation can help take your training to a higher level. Collagen supplementation, when timed with a workout, can help improve your joint health and recovery from injury.
Pro mountain bike racers Payson McElveen and Sofía Gomez Villafañe joined us live from the main stage at the Epic Rides Carson City Off-Road for a deep dive on endurance mountain bike training and racing. Topics covered in this episode How do pros taper for endurance mtb races What do pro mountain bikers eat?…
Training for Dirty Kanza doesn’t have to be complicated. With training advice and Dirty Kanza training plan recommendations from Head Coach Chad you can build the all day fitness that you need for this ultra-distance event.
Between your job, family, and other daily obligations, how do you have time to train? One of the biggest benefits of TrainerRoad is quality over quantity. Perhaps the greatest barrier to becoming a competitive endurance athlete is the time commitment that we used to think it required. TrainerRoad has eliminated this by specifically targeting your fitness goals…
If you are a USA Cycling member, you can get the Rides:Southern California DVD for free through June 30 (you still have to pay shipping). Just go to the Member Benefits section of the usacycling website once you are logged in for instructions on how to get yours. I’ve just added a new workout that corresponds to…
We’ve just added three new workouts to the feed. They were suggested by users at http://support.trainerroad.com/forums/20356951-suggest-a-workout Eichorn This is a classic. 2×20 minutes with 5 minutes rest between intervals. We give you a little warm up to wake up the legs then you get to do the work. The first interval is at 89% FTP. The…
Today, we’re launching Masters training plans, lowering the intensity of our existing plans, and adding the ability to change the workout duration of any workout in a plan!