Fred's Bike: Cycling regimen: Build on basics to find success

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Cycling regimen: Build on basics to find success

• Cycling endurance: We’d all like to be able to keep cycling for longer without getting tired, and by training properly it’s amazing how much you can improve over time. By starting slowly and gradually building up the amount of time you spend on the bike you will be surprised at how much longer you can keep cycling and how much stronger your aerobic or endurance fitness will become – even when your legs begin to tire.

Endurance is the key training ability that you should work on before anything else. While cycling speed and strength are important to differing degrees, nothing is as important as endurance. Without it you won’t get very far!

• Biking speed: Going faster is particularly important if you really want to get into road racing or criterium (crit’s) events, but it is not of paramount importance if your priority is getting fit and losing weight. As we get faster on the bike, technique plays an increasingly vital role. It’s all about increasing the ‘cadence’ and “torque” on the pedals or speed and power in which you can turnover each pedal stroke. Ask one of the experts at your local cycling shop to show you how this is done.

• Strength: Strength refers to your ability to push your pedals purposefully, stroke after stroke without tiring. Sport-specific exercises that train the muscles of the lower body, such as your quads, gluets and calves, are essential if you are to build up strength for cycling.Cycling regimen: Build on basics to find success | The News-Press | news-press.com

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As I get older the tendency to stick my foot up someone's ass is starting to subside. - Fred on Pump Track Pricks

The 29 inch chingaderra rolls best downhill! ~ Fred

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

~ Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan

It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan Nobel prize winner

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884

PEDAL. Pray Every Day And Listen. ~ Rev. Johannes Myors, The pedaling preacher

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong

Never use your face as a brake pad. ~ Jake Watson

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing. ~ Jacquie Phelan

When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
When I race, I don't want to lose.
Dying and losing, it's the same thing. ~ Lance Armstrong

"It is no longer a beast of steel,
no it is a friend it is a faithful
and powerful ally against one's worst
enemies. It is stronger than anxiety,
stronger than sadness. It has all the
power of hope." ~  Maurice Leblanc