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Mastering Interval Training: 6 Tips for Athletes Using Power Meters

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Mastering Interval Training: 6 Tips for Athletes Using Power Meters

For athletes striving for peak performance, maintaining smooth and even power output during intervals is crucial. This holds true no matter your discipline, from roadies to MTB athletes and everyone between, the ability to sustain consistent power levels can significantly impact your performance. Power meters, with their precise data feedback, provide valuable insights to help you optimize your training. Yet, achieving smooth and even power output throughout intervals can be a challenge. Fear not! Here are six practical tips to enhance your interval training and attain greater power consistency.

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Understanding the Critical Differences: Why Junior Athletes Require Specialized Training

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Understanding the Critical Differences: Why Junior Athletes Require Specialized Training

As the world of sports and athletic performance continues to evolve, one essential aspect often overlooked is the distinction between training methodologies for junior athletes and their adult counterparts. The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a pivotal period in an athlete's life, marked by unique physiological, psychological, and developmental changes. These distinctions are crucial to acknowledge, comprehend, and integrate into training programs tailored explicitly for junior athletes.

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Taking on The Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race: Top 10 Tips for Success

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Taking on The Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race: Top 10 Tips for Success

The Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race is the ultimate test of endurance, resilience, and mental fortitude. Perhaps the most famous endurance mountain bike race in the world, the Leadville Trail 100 spans the rugged terrain and extreme altitudes of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It's not merely a race, but an experience that pushes riders to their limits. For those aiming to conquer this iconic event and earn the coveted LT100 belt buckle, here are our coach’s top 10 tips that can significantly elevate your chances of success.

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Building Success from the Ground Up: Defining the Off and Base Seasons

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Building Success from the Ground Up: Defining the Off and Base Seasons

A while back, we posted an article What is the Off Season? Do Endurance Athletes Really Need One?. Over the years, this has been one of our most viewed blog posts by athletes all over the world. As we in the northern hemisphere start to transition into the Fall and Winter months, we thought we would whip up a new article that answers some of the questions we’ve received and that dives a bit deeper into the foundation of a cyclist’s annual training cycle.

Let’s take a look at the overall structure of your annual training plan: At WPA, we divide your year, or your Annual Training Plan, into these key phases...

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Five Tips to Plan and Train for Gravel Racing

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Five Tips to Plan and Train for Gravel Racing

In recent years, gravel racing has become a more prominent staple on race calendars - not just in the U.S., but worldwide. However, with the growing popularity and prominence of gravel racing, there are still a lot of unknowns surrounding the topic of training for gravel events. I use the five tips below with the athletes I coach to create a framework that should help to inform training needs for any event.

Goal Setting for the Upcoming Season

Goal Setting for the Upcoming Season

The winter season is often a time for athletes to reflect on the previous season’s training and performance, and begin to lay the framework for the coming season. One crucial component to that framework is conducting a thoughtful analysis of past performances, and to create a clear and specific set of goals in an effort to create a roadmap of tasks and processes to follow for the coming season. The process of goal setting…

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How to Stay Motivated Training this Winter

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How to Stay Motivated Training this Winter

Training productivity is often closely tied to your level of engagement, motivation, and how much you enjoy the training process. In the warmer months it can be easier to nourish these aspects of your training, but the cold, dark, and seemingly unending winter months often test our motivation. Check out these 5 tips to stay motivated while training this winter.

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Transitioning from Winter to Summer: How to Beat the Heat

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Transitioning from Winter to Summer: How to Beat the Heat

As we begin to crawl out of our climate-controlled winter pain caves and make our way outside to enjoy training and racing in the warmth of the spring sun, it’s important to remember that our bodies may need some time and attention to adjust to warmer temperatures.

Before we get into heat adaptation tips, let’s first take a look at some of the primary (negative) physiological changes that occur in the body when training or racing in a hotter environment…

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Tart Cherry Juice & Recovery for Endurance Athletes

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Tart Cherry Juice & Recovery for Endurance Athletes

Recovery is key. Whether you bike, run, swim, or climb, nutrition is what keeps you moving and grooving. To keep those legs fresh and the body from feeling stale in tomorrow’s workout, consider introducing tart cherry juice into the mix. Whether you have heard the hype about its benefits or not, let’s breakdown the proposed recovery benefits.

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Making an Athlete: 6 Habits of a Successful Athlete

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Making an Athlete: 6 Habits of a Successful Athlete

The term “marginal gains” has become a prominent buzz word in cycling media over the years. Shave a couple grams here and there, increase aerodynamics by a fraction of a percentage, utilize the latest nutritional breakthroughs, all with the goal of adding up a few tiny gains to the sum of an overall noticeable increase performance. For professional athletes in the pro peloton or athletes at the highest level of their sport, chasing these gains might be worth it in the long run. For the vast majority of athletes, however, becoming a successful athlete lies in the creation and maintenance of successful habits…

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Post-Workout Summer Vibes Smoothie Recipe

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Post-Workout Summer Vibes Smoothie Recipe

Spring has started to peak through these last few weeks, allowing for some runs and rides in shorts instead of layers. No matter the weather, there is a post-workout snack that always hits the spot: for me it’s smoothies. They are easy, versatile, refreshing, and can be prepped in advance as they last for months in the freezer.

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Training and Preparing for Your First Gravel Race

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Training and Preparing for Your First Gravel Race

After a race season devastated by COVID-19, many triathletes and roadies have flocked to the promising lure of gravel racing. With the ability to ride more socially distanced, stay away from traffic, and the added benefit of riding in some of the most beautiful locations, it’s safe to say that gravel is here to stay. More than any other year, the 2021 calendar is being filled with gravel events like The Wasatch All-Road, the iconic route of the Stupid Pony, Crusher in the Tusher, SBT GRVL, and Unbound Gravel (formerly Dirty Kanza). Distances range from 30 miles to staggering 200-300 miles…and even 300 mile tandem categories…for people who ride tandems…on gravel. With a new realm of bike racing comes the common question: “How in the world do I train for this?” This article will offer a high-level view to the chasm of information and advice surrounding the gravel scene.

Vitamin D as an endurance Athlete in the winter

Vitamin D as an endurance Athlete in the winter

With it being deep in the winter season, you may not be training outside as often as you would be in the warmer months. Perhaps, you are finding more indoor training days in your schedule due to inclement weather. With less sun exposure and our skin being covered up by all of those warm and cozy layers, this can put us at greater risk of becoming deficient in Vitamin D. This is because our body synthesizes the active form of vitamin D3 via the skin’s interaction with sunlight.

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