After a ride, do your low back and hamstrings feel tight? Do you hop off your bike and stretch them? Well you may be addressing the wrong area…
Most likely you’re noticing a muscle length problem, when what you have is a
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Road to Worlds Most Famous Brevet Race Paris-Brest (1230km)-Part 3
05/19/2013 3:30 pm
Creator: Evangelos Kastamoulas
Road to Worlds Most Famous Brevet Race Paris-Brest (1230km)-Part 3
We are
again here after 200,300,400km accomplished successfully.
The Last Target before France 600km!!!The most adventurous and
tricky as you will see!
Th
...Right Place - Right Time: Post Exercise Nutrition
05/12/2013 4:45 pm
Creator: Colleen Broersma
Heading to your kitchen after a workout appears to be a great idea! The late Dr. Ed Burke, former advisor to the US National Cycling Team and director of the exercise science program at the University of Colorado at Color
...Energy & Inspiration
05/11/2013 6:00 am
Creator: Polona Gosar
Energy & Inspiration
What is different between 2 instructors that have passed the same education, have the love to teach and are doing a good job? When I speak with members they say – he / she has more energy. Class is en
...Lessons From Sand
05/07/2013 1:45 pm
Creator: Colleen Broersma
Going nowhere really fast! While on a recent mountain bike trip to Fruita, Colorado I encountered a long stretch (several miles) of deep sand - definitely NOT my favorite riding conditions… I was reminded of some basic S
...Neck and Shoulder Pain - Chicken or Egg?
04/29/2013 10:45 am
Creator: Colleen Broersma
Cycling is an activity that places significant postural demands on the body. Performed in a “sitting posture”, these demands mimic those placed on the “sitting” population in general. Incidents of reported neck and should
...Strength comes from within…literally.
04/20/2013 3:45 pm
Creator: Colleen Broersma
As cyclists we have a need for speed. We shave ounces off our bikes, we periodize our training, we train for muscular endurance, strength and power in the weight room, and we focus on core stabilization in order to have a
...Take a deep breath… well maybe not too deep!
04/12/2013 9:30 pm
Creator: Colleen Broersma
How often do you hear yourself instructing your students to “take a deep breath”? Well, as it turns out a Russian physiologist Dr. Konstantin Buteyko believes most people consume five to ten times more air than their bod
...TIME MANAGMENT
04/09/2013 4:15 am
Creator: Polona Gosar
TIME MANAGEMENT
I have the privilege to travel a lot and too meat
different people from different countries and different occupations
in life. Last few years the most common answer when you ask Have
are you? Is “Ohhh I a
Music as Some Sort of Antihero?
04/05/2013 10:53 am
Creator: John Cargill
There is a time to follow routine and a time to disrupt it. In the interest of fitness, we generally have perfect consensus that becoming more fit requires the disruption of an established routine, one that is perhaps fo
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