Cycling Performance

Renowned cycling biomechanics pioneer Phil Cavell explores the growing trend of middle-aged and older cyclists seeking to achieve high-level performance. Using contributions from leading coaches, ex-professionals and pro-team doctors, he produces the ultimate manifesto for mature riders who want to stay healthy, avoid injury - and maximise their achievement levels.

Until now, sport training has been more witchcraft than science. Traditional coaching is based on copying recipes written in old books, with little science and more answers than questions. Traditional physiology, also marked by reductionism and the idea that the organism works like a machine, gives us incomplete and unsatisfactory answers that are inadequate when we leave the theoretical world to go to the real world. In this book, we approach the world of training from the perspective of Complex Systems, which will offer us a new vision of the world, health and organisms. In this book, you...

As the world's foremost cycling nation, the Netherlands is the only country where the number of bikes exceeds the number of people, primarily because the Dutch have built a cycling culture accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or economic means. Building the Cycling City examines the triumphs and challenges of the Dutch while also presenting stories of North American cities already implementing lessons from across the Atlantic.

In finance, as in life, there's no such thing as a free lunch - unless you're well diversified. The push toward diversification inspires many investors to buy index funds, which is a smart move. But most people have missed the chance to diversify over their investing lifecycle.

Unlock the most overlooked driver of elite strength and hypertrophy: eccentric training. Negative to Positive: Eccentric Overload Cycling for Strength and Size is the definitive guide to eccentric resistance methods, revealing how controlled muscle-lengthening phases produce unmatched gains in size, force production, and injury resilience. Written for advanced lifters, coaches, and sports performance professionals, this evidence-based resource covers everything from the cellular physiology of eccentric contractions to the application of cutting-edge tools like flywheels and weight releasers...

The autobiography of a cycling legend that will become a much-loved classic. The much-anticipated autobiography of the greatest Australian cyclist of all time. Famous in the sport for his meticulous preparation and an athlete who prided himself on his ability to leave it all on the road, Evans writes about the triumphs, the frustrations, the training, the preparation, the psychology of the sport, his contemporaries, the legends and his enduring love of cycling. A riveting and forensic account of his life on the bike....

Bodybuilders Desk Reference for Steroids, Supplements, and Enhancers is an exhaustive and meticulously detailed guide designed for athletes, bodybuilders, and fitness enthusiasts who seek to deepen their understanding of performance enhancement through the use of steroids, supplements, and other enhancers. This comprehensive resource covers a wide range of substances, from anabolic steroids like Testosterone, Trenbolone, and Nandrolone, to supplements such as Whey Protein, Creatine, and Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and even cutting-edge enhancers like Peptides, SARMs, and Nutrigenomics. Each entry ...

Joe Friel is a legend in endurance sport coaching and the bestselling author of some of the world's most celebrated cycling manuals. Full of exciting, refreshing and sometimes surprising ideas on high-performance training, this book represents the most complete and up-to date expression of Joe’s coaching philosophy.

Discover the untold training philosophy of Arnold Schwarzenegger—one built not on brute intensity, but on intelligent cycles of effort, recovery, and adaptation. Iron Cycles reveals how the world’s most iconic bodybuilder trained across eras, injuries, and shifting goals to build muscle that lasted—and how you can do the same. From his raw beginnings in Austrian basements to the punishing Olympia years, movie sets, surgeries, political office, and beyond, this book lays out the system Arnold followed: strategic training phases designed to evolve with your age, lifestyle, and ...

Ditch the cookie-cutter programs. Smart Gains delivers a cutting-edge approach to strength training for serious lifters who want to harness the power of data and technology. Written for athletes, coaches, and performance-driven gym-goers, this book teaches you how to use heart rate variability, bar speed, sleep metrics, and AI-driven feedback loops to guide your training in real time. Whether you're chasing hypertrophy, strength, or sustainable performance, this system shows you how to adapt each week based on your actual recovery, not a fixed calendar. Inside, you'll learn to sync ...

Cycling is easy to learn, a lot of fun, and if you really love it you can even try to go professional! However, there is much more to cycling than just learning to balance on two wheels. There is both an art and a science to cycling that can give you a massive advantage, whether you view cycling as a sport, a hobby, or as a form of transportation! If you love cycling and want to take your skills to the next level, then this is the book for you!

In The Band Director’s Lessons About Life, author Donald Lee draws on his decades as both a band director and religion teacher to create modern-day parables from the classroom. People of any religious persuasion - or none - will be delighted and inspired by how these band-room vignettes shine a spiritual light on everyday experiences. The parables are short enough to read in the bathroom yet deep enough to ponder for days.

Have you ever thought about the words that show up in the imaginary bubble over your head when you look in the mirror, or the mixed feelings of both horror and humor that come with the aging process? Life Cycling will take you on a spirited ride as Alayne shares her stories of motherhood, menopause, family, cancer, grief, and all of the moving parts that make up a woman’s life. With her distinctive and refreshingly forthright style, Alayne’s take on life coming at us will have you feeling like you are enjoying a glass of wine with her on the front porch on a sunny afternoon.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

Performance facilitator and elite mindset coach Gareth Timmins was one of only 0.1% of Royal Marines Commando applicants to reach the end of the intensive and gruelling training, and to earn the coveted Green Beret, a world-renowned symbol of excellence. By drawing on his life experiences after reaching this elite status, his subsequent research into psychological theory and observations shared with him from many elite athletes, Timmins aims to break the commonly held assumption that people who achieve consistent successes, do so with ease.

Are you an experienced athlete frustrated by stalled gains and nagging aches? Welcome to Hormone Cycling for Athletes Over 40, the ultimate playbook for seasoned competitors who refuse to concede to age. Drawing on clinical data and battle tested protocols this guide teaches you how to assess your unique hormonal baseline with targeted lab panels; design phase based testosterone growth hormone and peptide cycles that respect aging physiology; protect your joints and connective tissue with prehab pro collagen nutrition and precision peptide timing; guard your heart by monitoring lipids blood...

Ready to unlock the secrets the pros don’t want you to know? Steroid Confidential delivers a no-BS blueprint for bulking and cutting like an elite athlete while keeping your health in check. You’ll learn how to design cycles that build serious lean mass fast then dial in your diet and training to strip away fat without losing hard-earned muscle. This guide walks you through proven dosing protocols nutrition plans and recovery strategies that elite competitors rely on every day. Whether you’re chasing your first mass gain or preparing for stage ready definition you’ll find the ...

Invisible sonic transmissions are all around, bonding you to other human beings! The world of radio is vast and might surprise you! From hardboiled detectives to pirate broadcasters, Sonic Bonds is a personal book/zine journey that rides the waves from the 1940s to present day, showing just how magical this technology is. Popular music, anarchist DJs, emergency broadcasts, African American history, underground culture, speculative fiction dramas... radio reflects all the things that make us interesting and human.