Cycling Tips, The Importance of Strength Training (Besides boosting your sex-appeal)

Strength Training for the Serious Cyclist (or, “How to Rip Your Buddy’s Legs Off…in the nicest way possible.”)

So you’ve gotten your base miles in. You’ve balanced the delicate harmonic between max heart rate, lactate threshhold and VO max. You’ve pinned your wattage, worshipped at the altar of Thomas Prehn and subjugated your rational mind, displacing it with a raw, visceral lizard brain construct that knows peace and contentment only while while gazing through the red mist of oxygen depletion and competitive berserker fury. You’ve even eaten the wheat grass. Yet you’re still getting your ticket punched as you sprint for the town limit sign on what passes for your group’s “Wednesday Night World Cup” or as you painfully see the war of lactate/O2 attrition slipping out of your grasp as your pal leaves you behind on that one mountain bike climb that always defines your summer.    Follow me (VeloJones) to our blog for the rest of the story…