Depending on how your winter training schedule is coming along, you may be getting close to some of your early season races and you might want to think about incorporating some speed work (or change up your current speed focus days). Treadmills are very handy for speed work, but there has to be a balance [...]
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We can all benefit from maintaining good eating habits on our easy, rest- days as well as through the hard training days. Don’t fall into the trap of (too often) rewarding yourself with junk food because you “deserve it”. Your body really deserves high quality nutrients, and those rest days should be packed full of [...]
Need some motivation to get out and endure the cold and wet weather this winter?
An excellent way to loosen up the ol’ bod from the day’s previous activities is to swim in the evening for recovery. Even if you feel wasted from a hard workout, it is amazing how much better you feel after a dip in the pool to revel at the joy of buoyancy and kick out [...]
This winter has been the winter of a complete nutrition revamp for us (Heather and Trevor Wurtele – coauthors of all posts on the IMTT site). Some race issues that were slowly becoming a trend (in a bad way) had to be changed.
This post is not about all the factors that affect your race nutrition, [...]
Winter training is a good time to build a solid aerobic base, and this means staying within defined heart rate zones. This can be tricky if you do your riding in a group setting or live in a place with lots of cyclists on the roads with whom to get competitive – damn speedy commuters [...]
A great little routine to start in the new year is to take your morning resting heart rate. Yes, it can be a bit annoying to reach out from under those warm blankets and put the cold plastic monitor to your chest, but the benefits to knowing what that number should be are worth it. [...]
As we get close to the new year, it’s the perfect time to start up a training journal of some sort. There are many online FREE training logs that allow you keep track of workouts, and plan ahead for new ones. If you prefer not to get online you could also set something up in [...]
Growing up as a young cyclist, one of the lines we always used jokingly was ‘Shammy time is training time’. Meaning that sitting around in your shammy after your ride was considered training time. Obviously not the case, but funny nonetheless.
This tip has to do with your shammy - relative to your saddle height on race [...]