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Mastering Interval Training: 6 Tips for Athletes Using Power Meters

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.

Stretching and Mobility for Cycling: Proper Dynamic Warm-up and Static Cool-down

Stretching and Mobility for Cycling: Proper Dynamic Warm-up and Static Cool-down

The subject of stretching and mobility has been a topic of great controversy in endurance sports. It’s no secret that in the sport of running for example, static stretching prior to activity has been linked to decrease in performance, in part because tight muscles and tendons act as more effective and stiffer springs, which is incredibly useful in some endurance and power sports such as running and cycling. It is with this theory that I prefer to prescribe a more dynamic based warm up, and a static stretch cool down…

12 Steps to Prepare for Your First Gran Fondo

12 Steps to Prepare for Your First Gran Fondo

Since the first Gran Fondo in Cesenatico, Italy in 1970, Gran Fondo events have grown to dominate the amateur cycling community all over the world. And yet, there is a bit of mysticism around the infamous Gran Fondo…