Free Cycling and Endurance Sport Training Information

The following articles are provided free of charge!  They are written and assembled here by the cycling and endurance sport coaches at the Peaks Coaching Group!  We hope they help! 

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• General
• Coaching
• Skills,Tactics & Strategy
• Health
• Training with Power
• Flexibility, Strength & Nutrition
• Mental Training
• Exercise Physiology
• Other good stuff

General Training

• Holding Back the Horses - By Michael Scherer
• Riding the indoor trainer - By Don Russell
• Training Zones - By Don Russell
• Is Your Bike "Fit"? - By Adam Baskin
• Does Your Bike Fit You? - By BJ Basham
• The Underperformance Syndrome: Beyond overtraining - By Chris Harnish
• Pedal Less, Win More - By Hunter Allen

Coaching

• How to Choose the Online Coach that Fits Your needs - By Brett Bastian
• Make Your Off-Season Count! Hire a Coach Now! - By Jeb Stewart
• Training doesn't stop because the leaves change. - By Jeb Stewart
• Periodization for Peak Performance - By Brett Bastian
• Periodization Part 1 - By Chris Harnish
• Periodization Part 2 - By Chris Harnish

Skills, Tactics and Strategy

• Race Tactics - By Hunter Allen
• Course Strategy - By Hunter Allen
• Dealing with the weather - By Hunter Allen
• How To Avoid Overtraining - By Hunter Allen
• Que Hacer un día antes de la Competencia? - By Armando Borrajo
• Cyclocross skills - By Greg Steele
• The art of a good lead out - By Erik Saunders
• Skills Training, Who Me? - By Don Russell
• 10 Simple things to remember when racing as a team - By BJ Basham
• Start at the End: Time Management for Time Trialists - By Gordon Paulson

Health

• Unhealthy Air - By Randy Collins
• Muscle Cramps - A Discussion By Hunter Allen
• Recovery 101 - Josh Simonds LMT
  

Training With Power

• Power Tools - By Hunter Allen & Andy Coggan
• Understanding the Peaks of Cycling with a power meter - By Hunter Allen & Andy Coggan
• What is a match? - By Hunter Allen
• USAC Power Training Chapter - By Andy Coggan
• Going Uphill Fast - By Simon Kessler
• Multiple Hard Efforts - By Jay Gump, PhD.

• A Coach’s Perspective

  Part 1- Power Measuring Guidelines - By Jeb Stewart
Part 2- How to Use Power Measuring Devices - By Jeb Stewart
• Determining Your Lactate Threshold - By Jeb Stewart
• Spriting and Power Training - By Robin Horwitz
• Building a basic foundation for Sprinting Part 1 - By Robin Horwitz

Flexibility, Strength & Nutrition

• A Comprehensive Approach To Strength Training - By Jeb Stewart
• A Comprehensive Approach To Flexibility Training - By Jeb Stewart
• Flexibility - By Jeb Stewart
• Stop! Don't to those crunches! - By Marlon Familton
• Go Faster without pedaling! - By Marlon Familton
• Why lift in the off-season? - By Jeb Stewart
• Effective Weight Loss - By Dr. Bill Misener @ E-Caps
• Does Gym Work Make You a Stronger Cyclist? - By Marlon Familton
• Does Flexibility Enhance Performance? - By Marlon Familton
• Nutrition, Performance and Body Comp Basics - By Jeb Stewart
• Are you Reaching your Personal Performance Potential - By Marlon Familton

Mental Training

• The Three Legged Stool - By Hunter Allen
• Eliminating Nervousness - By Hunter Allen
• More important than Winning - By Jeb Stewart
• Using Pain to your Advantage - By Marlon Familton
• Making Allies with Your Mind - By Geoff Lanier
• Training with Intent: A Checklist - By Kristen Dieffenbach, PhD

Exercise Physiology

• Physiological Effects of Altitude - By Chris Harnish
• High Altitude Racing Revisited - By Chris Harnish
• A Season in Parts: Taking a Mid-Season Break - By Chris Harnish
• Intervals: Why do we use them? - By Stephen McGregor, Ph.D.
• Using Intervals to Target VO2max Adaptations - By Stephen McGregor, Ph.D.
• Anaerobic Threshold - By Adam Baskin

Other good stuff

• Overlooking the obvious? - By Jeb Stewart
• Peaks and Valley of Spring Racing - By Jeb Stewart
• The purpose of warmups - By Jeb Stewart
• Keeping up with the little things - By Jeb Stewart
• Getting the most from your training - By Chris Harnish
• The Training Race Trap - By Chris Harnish
• Ten Ways to Improve Your Racing - By Chris Harnish
• Efficient use of recovery time - By BJ Basham