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Title: Weight Training for Cyclists by Ken Doyle, Eric Schmitz ISBN: 1-884737-43-9 Publisher: Velo Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it!
Comment: I have always read in bike magazines that the way to improve your strength on the bike you need to lift weights. Problem is, I don't know the right way to do it! This book gave me all of the knowledge I needed to design a training program and perform the exercises correctly and safely. I'm already seeing the benefits!
Rating: 5
Summary: Weight Training for Cyclists
Comment: I loved this book! I have been riding for a couple years now, but felt like I needed to do something to ride stronger. Everyone knows weight training helps cyclists, but doesn't know how to do it. Well, this book got high reviews in Bicycling Magazine, and I know why. It has a very easy to understand format, and the photo descriptions are very well-written. If you are an experienced weightlifter then you probably know the lifts, but probably do not know how to set up the progressive program to get you better on the bike. I highly recommend picking this book up. Now I am flying up the hills!
Rating: 2
Summary: Save your money.
Comment: I bought this book because I have always had a strong base in bodybuilding, but have recently expanded into mountian biking and road riding. I thought that there might be some secret to mixing strength training and endurance sports that I hadn't come across yet, as I've always heard doing more of one generally means you should do less of the other, so I bought this book as the title suggested there would be some explanation of how a sport specific individual could improve his performance in that sport through weight training.
About all that this book got around to revealing as far as that goes is not to train so hard in the gym that you become big and bulky, as you will train more fast twitch muscle fibers and will become slow and ponderous on the bicycle. To anyone with the slightest understanding of weight training, that is definately common knowledge, and I scowl at myself for expecting this book to release some hidden secret to blending strength training and cycling. A word of advice that I somehow ignored myself... you can't judge a book by it's cover.
If you have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever on how to use weights, this book would help you out I suppose, only in the respects that it can show you how to perform movements and exercises common to bodybuilding, since the bulk of the book is comprised of drawings illustrating proper form and technique. But in all respect, this book is something that a fifth grade reading teacher might have on her classroom shelves full of cheesy books for ten and twelve year olds. It basically teaches you how to work out, while giving only the slightest techincal information on cycling specifics.
If you're looking to help your cycling, don't bother with this book. If you just want to learn how to use weights, I suppose it's alright, but if you're only wanting to learn how to work out and you aren't already a cyclist, I doubt you'll be reading this anyway.
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Title: The Cyclist's Training Bible by Joe Friel ISBN: 1931382212 Publisher: Velo Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Serious Cycling by Ed Burke, Edmund R. Burke, Chris Carmichael ISBN: 073604129X Publisher: Human Kinetics (T) Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Ride: Get Fit, Get Fast, and Start Winning With the World's Top Cycling Coach by Chris Carmichael, Jim Rutberg ISBN: 0399150714 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Off-Season Training for Cyclists (The Ultimate Training Series from Velopress) by Ed Burke, Edmund R, Ph.D. Burke, Harvey Newton ISBN: 1884737404 Publisher: Velo Press Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Lance Armstrong Performance Program: Seven Weeks to the Perfect Ride by Lance Armstrong, Chris Carmichael, Peter Joffre Nye ISBN: 1579542700 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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