Physical and mental energy are both limited resources. Can you train your brain to use this energy more efficiently?
How to Maximize Your Available Training Time
Schedules change all the time. Sometimes life happens, and you find yourself with minimal time to train. At other times, you find yourself with tons of time for training. Whether you have extra or minimal time, you can make the most of the time you have to maintain or increase your fitness.
How to Create Healthy Training Habits
Knowing how to recognize unhealthy training habits and make positive adjustments can make you faster, prevent exercise addiction, and help you foster a positive long-term relationship with your sport.
Criterium Strategy with Legion of LA’s Justin Williams
Criteriums are fast, intense, and unpredictable. How can you use team tactics and sprinting strategies to up your crit game? We asked an expert.
Cycling Numbness: Dealing with Numb Hands, Feet, & Saddle
Spend any time cycling, and you will likely experience numbness in your hands, feet, or perineum. With a few small changes in your fit and equipment, you can increase your comfort on the bike.
How to Sustainably Push Mental Limits
When you reach your limits during a workout, pushing through the mental discomfort can be as challenging as pushing through the physical discomfort. But just as your fitness can improve with training, so can your mental stamina. You can sustainably challenge and expand your limits with a growth mindset and incremental steps forward. For more…
Indoor FTP vs. Outdoor FTP: Why They Feel Different (But Aren’t)
One of the most common questions we receive at TrainerRoad is whether you need to adjust your FTP between indoor and outdoor workouts. The short answer is no, but the reasons why are more complicated.
Using Outside Workouts to Prepare For Your Event
Taking your structured workouts outside with Outside Workouts doesn’t just benefit your fitness. You can also use your Outside Workouts to reinforce technical skills, work on outside conditioning and prepare for the specific challenges of your events.
Life or Death Motivation: How Cam Summerson Used Cycling to Save His Son
Motivation in training is a personal thing. For Cam Summerson, the motivation was saving his young son’s life.
How Norman Banick Went 9:11:09 and Top 100 at Kona
Kona. The name alone inspires both fear and awe in endurance athletes around the world. Norman Banick headed to Kona for the 2019 Ironman World Championship with lofty goals—finish under nine hours and place in the top 100. After being battered by Hawaiian sun and wind, Norman finished 102nd overall with an incredible time of 9:11:09.