Sunday, July 18, 2010

How to ride 10-30% faster?

Let me first say, there is no magic bullet or magic pill you can take to turn yourself into a cycling machine.

Sure, you could take some sort of illegal performance enhancing drug and see some good improvement quickly. However, you still need to get the fundamentals right to see improvement from that.

There are, however, several key ingredients that work in synergy and can provide exponential improvement. In other words, when things work together the affects are multiplied so the increases are greater.

It works a bit like this. Check this out:

10 = 10
10 + 10 = 20
10 + 10 + 10 = 30
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 50
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 60

This is the end result of doing 6 different tasks that don’t work together in synergy.

Now have a look at what happens when you do 6 things that do in fact work together in synergy.

10 = 10
10 x 10 = 100
10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000
10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 10,000
10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 100,000
10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 = 1,000,000

When looking for cycling improvement, we need to ensure that what we do on and off the bike works together in synergy to have maximum effect.

We want the riding equivalent of 1,000,000 not 60!

So what are the key ingredients to this kind of cycling success?

Here are what we believe to be the essential elements that you need to have working together in synergy to see the maximum results possible.

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Ensuring the correct timing of your training

Correct Timing for CyclingOne of the most important ingredients to performing well on the bike is choosing what riding you do when.

Most people DON’T get the foundations right and when they try to build their training up, the walls come crashing down around them.

You’ve got to think of your body like an engine. There are certain systems in your body that need to be trained first before you jump in and try to get other systems working.

A good analogy is to imagine you want to build a fast race engine for a car.

Before you would begin bolting on parts that make the engine go fast, you need to work on the existing block to make sure it is strong enough to handle the horsepower.

Once you know that this foundation is solid then you can bolt in a nice cam, a big carb and a turbo knowing that the rest of the engine can handle it.

If you made a choice to bolt a turbo and go-fast parts on a standard engine that was not correctly prepared, you couldn’t expect it to go as fast as it potentially should. Even worse, it is likely to break down and damage the engine when pushed hard.

You must ensure you’re timing the type of training you’re doing correctly to see maximum results.

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