How Blood Donation Affects Performance
Blood – it’s in you to give. Donating blood is a wonderful selfless act to help others. How might you need to adapt your training around your blood donation schedule?
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Does Lifting Actually Improve On-Bike Power?
I am likely not the only cyclist who neglects resistance/strength training into my own training. Let's spend some time talking about the benefits of adding strength training and lifting into your training routine.
Keep on Sprinting Through Your Transition Period
Last week we discussed keeping sprint work during a transition period can help maintain fitness with little risk for mental fatigue. The same group has just published another study looking at the same idea. What did they find?
Sweat Bomb: How Much Do You Sweat?
Sweating helps us cool down but also drops our fluid balance. Is it important to figure out your own individual sweat rate, and how might you go about it?
Perfecting the Taper For Better Performance
Have you ever wondered what a professional cyclist does to compete at the highest level against the best in the world? Or have you wondered what things you should be considering when you prepare for your big events?
Hot Summertime Cycling Challenges
Depending on location, your life will be in various shades of normal due to COVID. If your situation involves no major races or events to focus on, what are ways or ideas for challenging yourself this summer?
Do Fast Start Intervals Make For Fast Times?
For shorter time trial efforts like the track kilometre, pacing with a fast start results in the fastest overall times. What about intervals? Should you pace them evenly or are there greater training benefits by pacing them with a fast…
How To Use Heart Rate Variability DURING Training
We have talked about using heart rate variability to guide your training program. Today, let’s talk about how to use HRV during your training with one of the newest tools in sports science now: detrended fluctuation analysis alpha 1…
How Heart Rate Variability Beats Block Periodization Training Plans
Heart rate variability may be useful as a guide to your recovery and readiness for training, and that it may improve fitness compared to a traditional periodization plan. How does it compare to a block periodization approach?
How To Use Heart Rate Variability As Your Training Guide
The digital era has arrived in many different aspects of our lives. Heart rate variability has become a sexy new measure – how might it help your daily training?