The Cyclist's Training Bible

The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

Joe Friel

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VeloPress
26 April 2018

Sports & outdoor recreation; Sports training & coaching; Cycling

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the bestselling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced cyclists. Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven cycling training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport.

Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever. The Cyclist's Training Bible equips cyclists of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this all-new edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized cycling training program and:
* train with the right intensity and volume
* gain maximum fitness from every workout
* change your training plan over the course of the season
* make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
* build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
* improve body composition with smarter nutritionThe Cyclist's Training Bible is the world's most trusted guide to cycling training. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this newest version of the bible of the sport.

What's New in this fifth edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible? Coach Joe Friel started writing the fifth edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible with a blank page: the entire book is new. This new edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques, improves on ways to develop technique, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance.

By: Joe Friel
Imprint: VeloPress
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 5th ed.
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9781937715823
ISBN 10: 1937715825
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 26 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joe Friel is the most trusted endurance sports coach in the world. He is the best-selling author of The Triathlete's Training Bible, The Cyclist's Training Bible, Fast After 50, Going Long, Your Best Triathlon, The Power Meter Handbook, and Your First Triathlon. His TrainingBible Coaching service is one of the most successful and respected in endurance sports. Joe has trained endurance athletes since 1980, including national champions, world championship contenders, and Olympic athletes in triathlon, duathlon, road cycling, and mountain biking. He is an elite-certified USA Triathlon and USA Cycling coach and holds a master's degree in exercise science. He conducts training and racing seminars around the world and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. He has also been active in business as the founder of Ultrafit, an association of coaching businesses; TrainingPeaks, a web-based software company; and TrainingBible Coaching.

Reviews for The Cyclist's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

Review quotes coming soon! Joe Friel is arguably the most experienced personal cycling coach in the U.S., and his book The Cyclist's Training Bible has become, well... the Bible of the sport. -- Bicycling magazine Joe Friel is one of the world's foremost experts on endurance sports. -- Outside magazine The Cyclist's Training Bible will have you systematically training just as world-class cyclists do. If you scrupulously follow its guidelines, I'm confident your racing performance will dramatically improve. -- Tudor Bompa, PhD To say that Joe Friel knows a thing or two about how to ride a bicycle and stay fast would be a severe understatement. -- Road Bike Action I find Friel's book a treasure of information for cyclists of all levels. -- Andy Hampsten, 1988 Giro d'Italia winner, 1992 Tour de France stage winner at Alpe d'Huez One of the most trusted coaches in triathlon. -- LAVA magazine Nothing else comes close to The Cyclist's Training Bible's comprehensive approach to planning out a season, creating a training schedule and incorporating diet and resistance training to an overall plan. -- BikeRumor.com Packed with worksheets, charts, visuals and a dense index and references for further reading, The Cyclist's Training Bible is an arsenal of encyclopedic information for ambitious riders. -- DailyPeloton.com The Cyclist's Training Bible has become a cyclist's best chance at achieving their goals. This is the ultimate manual for growth as a cyclist. -- BicycleSmile.com