Fitness Cycling
Author(s): Shannon Sovndal
From customized workouts to authoritative advice, "Fitness Cycling" provides the most effective workouts for achieving peak physical conditioning. As a cyclist and physician for one of the sport's leading teams, author Shannon Sovndal provides a detailed approach to cycling that will help you increase strength, speed, stamina, and overall fitness.
"Fitness Cycling" features 56 workouts based on specific aspects of riding, such as base building, interval training, sprint and hill climbing, and time trialing. Each workout is color coded for intensity level, so you can create a targeted program based on your goal, current fitness level, and cycling experience.
With recommendations, advice, and professional insights on riding techniques, goal setting, training concepts, recovery, and preventing common cycling injuries, "Fitness Cycling" is the one training guide you'll turn to again and again for a lifetime of cycling workouts.
Product Information
Shannon Sovndal, is the team physician for the Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda professional cycling team and works at the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) for the University of Colorado. He attended medical school at Columbia University in New York City and completed his residency at Stanford University. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American College of Emergency Medicine.
Chapter 1. Setting Cycling Fitness Goals; Chapter 2. Understanding Training Concepts; Chapter 3. Measuring Cycling Fitness; Chapter 4. Understanding Training Workload and Zones; Chapter 5. Planning Your Program; Chapter 6. Base-Building Workouts; Chapter 7. Interval Workouts for Flat or Varied Terrain; Chapter 8. Hill Workouts; Chapter 9. Time Trial Workouts; Chapter 10. Sprint Workouts; Chapter 11. Stationary Bike Workouts; Chapter 12. Off-Season Workouts; Chapter 13. Equipping Yourself; Chapter 14. Refining Bike Fit and Riding Techniques; Chapter 15. Dealing With Common Cycling Problems.
General Fields
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- : Human Kinetics Publishers
- : Human Kinetics Publishers
- : 0.544
- : 01 January 2013
- : 254mm X 178mm X 13mm
- : United States
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Shannon Sovndal
- : Paperback
- : en
- : 796.6
- : 216
- : 45 colour illustrations, 18 colour illustrations
