endurance training

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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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Increased Exercise and Injury Prevention

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Increased Exercise and Injury Prevention

Welcome to the 23rd Saturday of COVID-19 social distancing!! With this new norm of the “stay-at-home” order also comes an increase of free time for some; and in this new routine, exercise is rapidly becoming a sought after method of occupying our space and time. Consistency in exercise routines has long been a struggle for many.

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6 Tips for Time-Crunched Athletes

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6 Tips for Time-Crunched Athletes

24 HOURS, 1,440 MINUTES, 86,400 SECONDS: Those numbers make up a single day, and every one of us have to work within the confines of those limitations. So how is it that some people seem unphased by time? We have all seen those athletes that seem to balance training, work, family and everything else thrown at them with ease. The most common concerns I have heard from athletes over the years is the need…

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…

Properly Fueling a Morning Workout

Properly Fueling a Morning Workout

For many of us who juggle multiple hats, trying to be superheroes to everyone else and still wanting to reach our fitness goals, mornings are sometimes the only time we can squeeze in our training session. Properly planned nutrition can help you maximize your training time to earn the most results.

In any given workout, our body can supply energy through a few avenues…

What Is The “Off Season”? Do Endurance Athletes Really Need One?

What Is The “Off Season”? Do Endurance Athletes Really Need One?

If you’ve been hanging around other endurance athletes for any bit of time, you may have heard them reference their “off season”. But what exactly is an off season? When is an off season? And most importantly, do endurance athletes need an off season?

As endurance athletes, our calendar is typically broken down into four seasons…

Not All Athletes Should Be Eating The Same

Not All Athletes Should Be Eating The Same

We’ve all heard the viral celebrity “diets” - think of Olympian Michael Phelps, who boasted of consuming upwards of 8,000 calories per day, Usain Bolt’s binge of Chicken McNuggets, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s fish and egg feasts, or the Los Angeles Lakers’ obsession with bone broth. If we blindly follow one of these high-profile “endorsed” diets, it’s completely likely we could find ourselves fatter, slower, and fatigued through our training and competitive seasons. But why could one diet work so well for one athlete and completely unravel another?

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7 Ways To Train Like The Pros

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7 Ways To Train Like The Pros

Often times, people assume there’s a major genetic difference between themselves and professional athletes, and in some cases this true. I have been fortunate enough to work with athletes of all caliber, from the off-the-couch amateur to world cup gold medalists and Olympic hopefuls, and from my experience, the only thing that separates a pro from a novice is the way they approach and execute their training…

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12 Steps to Prepare for Your First Gran Fondo

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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…

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