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Weight Loss for Spring Cycling

By Laurel-Lea Shannon

If your winter fitness plans fizzled out this year, and instead of packing on extra muscle during the off-season you’ve added a few pounds of fat, don’t despair. There’s still time to tweak your diet and tune up your exercise program in time for spring.

Too many women make weight loss a chore. If

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Building a Solid Base for Spring Cycling

By Jen Fawcette

While riding my big steel commuter bike to work last November I was hit by a car door. The collision damaged the door of the tiny Yaris more than it hurt me, but I took this accident as a sign to put my bike away for the year. Like a cat, I only

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An Interview with Nuria Rozalén of Planeta MTB

How popular is cycling among women in Spain?
Cycling for women is still new in Spain. Unlike other European countries such as Germany or the Czech Republic we don’t have a tradition of cycling, even as a means of transportation. But each year we see more and more women on bicycles.

Are bikes used very much for

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Cycling and Osteoporosis: Protect Dem Bones

By Laurel-Lea Shannon

Osteoporosis will affect one in three women during their lifetime. We’re facing “an osteoporosis epidemic,” says Dr. Jean-Philippe Bonjour of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). What’s responsible? Mainly, changes in diet and a sedentary lifestyle.

In osteoporosis, bone tissue deteriorates causing low bone density. As the bones become increasingly porous

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MIT'S Copenhagen Wheel

This new bicycle wheel not only boosts power using Formula One inspired technology, but also can keep track of fitness, friends, smog and traffic – helping Copenhagen become the first carbon neutral capital by 2025.

It looks like an ordinary bicycle wheel with an oversized center. But packed inside the sleek, bright red hub is a

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Coast to Coast—The Sears National Kids Cancer Ride

By Catherine Bancroft

Like many great things in life, I came upon cycling by chance. I had heard about the Toronto to Montreal Friends for Life Bike Rally, a fundraiser for the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation. Working in Zimbabwe in 1997, I had become passionate about people living with HIV/AIDS. When I

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Beat Boredom on an Indoor Bike

By Sheila Ascroft

If you’re stuck riding an indoor trainer three or four times a week, the winter months will definitely improve your fitness, but it could wear down your mind. It’s hard to keep pedalling and go nowhere–eventually the boredom will drain you. Having a spring goal will help keep you focussed.

Some lucky people have

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My Yuletide Ride on the West Coast

By Heather Pardon

The past year has brought many “firsts” into my life including the fact that 2009 will go down in history as the first time I ever cycled my way to Christmas dinner. On the west coast, you can do this in December, which is something I found quite novel being an Easterner from

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Don't Try This On YOUR Bike

China’s Cycling Talent: 16 Girls on 1 Bike

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Spinning & Yoga: The Perfect Workout

By Kerry Guglielmin

It’s a wintry Friday evening, minus twenty-five degrees outside—a perfect night to curl up with a book in front of the fire. Instead, I pull on my bike shorts, scrape the ice off the car and drive over to the community centre for a spin/yoga class. I know it will be worth it.

When

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The Skinny On Fat

By Laurel-Lea Shannon

Fat has been vilified by the medical community for decades. But did you know your body needs fat to function properly? Healthy fats may be your biggest ally in the battle against weight gain.

Eating healthy fats will make you feel full faster and for longer because fat is digested more slowly than

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