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The Cyclist's Training Bible
The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide
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This book is ideal for both aspiring and experienced cyclists seeking to improve their fitness and race performance through structured, smart training. It is also valuable for coaches and sports enthusiasts interested in contemporary cycling training methodologies.
This all-new Cyclist's Training Bible presents the latest discoveries in cycling science, data analysis, daily planning, and skills development to help you create a personal training plan for success.
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The Cyclist's Training Bible is the bestselling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced cyclists. Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world, and his proven cycling training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport.
Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and aid athletes in training smarter than ever. It equips cyclists of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.
With this all-new edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalised cycling training program and:
- Train with the right intensity and volume
- Gain maximum fitness from every workout
- Change your training plan over the course of the season
- Make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
- Build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
- Improve body composition with smarter nutrition
The Cyclist's Training Bible is the world's most trusted guide to cycling training. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this newest version of the bible of the sport.
What's new in this fifth edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible? Coach Joe Friel started writing the fifth edition with a blank page: the entire book is new. This new edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques, improves on ways to develop technique, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance.
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ISBN: 9781937715823
Publisher: VeloPress
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 May 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: VeloPress
Edition: 5th New edition
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 216.0mm
Height: 279.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 344
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About the Author
Joe Friel is the most trusted endurance sports coach in the world.
He is the best-selling author of The Triathlete's Training Bible, The Cyclist's Training Bible, Fast After 50, Going Long, Your Best Triathlon, The Power Meter Handbook, and Your First Triathlon. His TrainingBible Coaching service is one of the most successful and respected in endurance sports.
Joe has trained endurance athletes since 1980, including national champions, world championship contenders, and Olympic athletes in triathlon, duathlon, road cycling, and mountain biking.
He is an elite-certified USA Triathlon and USA Cycling coach and holds a master's degree in exercise science. He conducts training and racing seminars around the world and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. He has also been active in business as the founder of Ultrafit, an association of coaching businesses; TrainingPeaks, a web-based software company; and TrainingBible Coaching.
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