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Warming Up and Cooling Down

By Laurel-Lea Shannon

Cyclists, especially new ones, are notorious for not warming up before rides or cooling down and stretching afterwards. It’s easy to jump on your bike and snort off down the road at top speed. But skipping your warm up before cycling can cause injuries, sore leg muscles, and make you feel short of

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Cycling Lite

Finally, A Weight Loss Program For Women That Works!

Cycling Lite takes you back to basics about weight loss.

No gimmicks . . .

No diet food . . .

No bull . . .

Just the basic facts about how you can
lose weight now and keep it off forever.

Cycling Lite

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Keeping Fit in the Off-Season

This Winter Get Four Months
Coaching From A Pro

Would you like to be

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Spring into Training

By Gillian Scobie

Photo by Jerry Manco of JLM Studio

Some of you have been slogging away all winter on your trainers. Others have been skiing, skating or running. Now it looks like spring is finally here. Time to get back on your bike—outside! I talked to Jenny Brown, owner of Reactivated Personal

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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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Keeping It Positive When Injury Takes You Out Of The Saddle

By Heather Pardon

If you had to make the choice between spending time on crutches or spending time in the saddle, I’m going to take a guess that you’d prefer to spend time in the saddle.

You’re a cyclist, so that makes sense. You love to ride your bicycle. For fitness, for friendship, for challenge, for the

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Greater Endurance with Aging

BY Gabe Mirkin

I’m 74 years old and ride my bicycle more than 200 miles per week, often in pace lines with younger riders. I have noticed that younger riders can easily pull away from me in short bursts, but I keep coming back on them and seem to be better able to keep

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Cross-Training for Fitness

By Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

Fitness refers to your heart, and the harder you exercise, the more fit you become. But every time you exercise vigorously your muscles are injured, and the harder you exercise, the longer it takes for your muscles to heal. Muscle biopsies done the day after a person exercises vigorously show bleeding into

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Stretching Pros and Cons – Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia reviewed the world’s literature and concluded that stretching does not prevent muscle soreness that follows vigorous exercise (1). Athletes train by taking a hard workout, feeling sore the next day, and then taking easy workouts for as many days as it takes for the soreness to go

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Debunking The Max HR Formula

[MAXIMUM HEART RATE FORMULA-Gabe Mirkin, M.D.]
Many of the standard tests used to measure heart function are based on a nonsensical MAXIMUM HEART RATE formula, that predicts the fastest your heart can beat and still pump blood through your body. Although this formula is the golden standard used today, it is not based on science.

In 1970,

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Get Coached and Get Fit For Spring

What’s stopping you from reaching the level of fitness you want? Maybe you exercise a lot but aren’t getting stronger or faster. Maybe you have an injury you can’t shake, or a problem with fatigue. Maybe you’re not sure how to train for a new event you’d like to enter. Or, maybe you’re having trouble

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