The Cyclist's Training Diary: Your Ultimate Tool for Faster, Stronger Racing - Softcover

Friel, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937715833 ISBN 13: 9781937715830

Publisher: VeloPress, 2018

Synopsis

A perfect companion to any cycling training program, The Cyclist’s Training Diary offers an ideal way for you to plan, record, and better understand your workouts and performance. 

With undated pages for use any time of the year, this diary offers plenty of space for all the objective and subjective performance metrics you might want to track in a smart format that’s been carefully designed, tested, and refined by Joe Friel, America’s most experienced personal cycling coach.

The Cyclist’s Training Diary has a lay flat binding and flips easily so you can look up past workouts or settle your pre-race nerves by proving to yourself that you’ve done the work. This paper workout log is simple to use, never requires a login or password, and can be completely customized to meet your needs for any cycling training schedule. This physical record of your workouts will reveal insights that don’t display on an online dashboard.

Fully compatible with Joe Friel’s best-selling training programs like The Cyclist’s Training Bible and Fast After 50, this diary simplifies the planning and execution of your training for all cycling events: road racing, criteriums, time trials, century rides, charity rides, gran fondos, enduro, gravel grinders, and cyclocross.

Strong cyclists know that a training diary is an invaluable tool. Whether they work with a coach or train independently, even elite cyclists keep a training log to hone their feel for performance, consolidate training data in one location, track their progress, monitor for injuries and overtraining, and reshape their goals throughout the season.

The Cyclist’s Training Diary includes:

• Coach Friel’s introduction to the essential details of keeping a training log.
• Friel’s guide to planning out your season.
• Season goals, Annual training hours, Weekly training hours and summary charts
• 53 undated weekly spreads.
• Space for every training metric like workout type, route, and distance/time; heart rate and power; zones and RPE; weather; rest/recovery; weight; and your custom notes
• Race Results Summary to log finish times, nutrition, efforts, and more
• Physiological test results such as VO2max and lactate threshold.
• Training Grids to graph the data you choose
• Road and mountain bike measurements with space to note adjustments
• Your favorite segments and best times
• Season results summary
• Race day gear checklist

What gets measured gets managed. Add The Cyclist’s Training Diary to your program and you’ll unlock valuable insights that can help you improve in your sport.

About this title

About the Author

With a masters degree in exercise science, Joe Friel was a marathoner and running coach throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. After his first triathlon in 1983 and falling in love with the sport he began coaching multisport athletes becoming one of the first triathlon coaches in the country. The following year he opened a triathlon store in Ft. Collins, Colorado—probably the first in the world. Throughout the 1980s his race management company organized several triathlons in Colorado. He left retail and race management in 1987 to focus on coaching. The athletes he coached for over 30 years ranged from novice to high-performance amateur to professional to Olympian. In 1997, he was a founding member of the USA Triathlon Coaches Association. He served as co-chair in 1999-2000. In 2000, he attended the Sydney Olympics to assist with team preparation. The following year he was the coach of team USA for the World Triathlon Championships. Throughout the 2000s he was a frequent speaker at USAT coach seminars. He wrote 17 books on training, the most notable being The Triathlete’s Training Bible, which is now in its 5th edition and translated into 15 languages. It remains the best-selling book in the world on triathlon training. In 1999, he co-founded TrainingPeaks, online training software for endurance athletes. As an athlete he competed in hundreds of events including national and world championships, was an All-American Age Group Triathlete several times and a USAT-regional multisport champion. He stopped competing after a bike crash in 2014 restricted range of shoulder movement. He continues to present at triathlon camps and clinics for triathletes and coaches around the world. Joe currently lives and trains in the mountains of northern Arizona and is working on his 18th book—this one for coaches.

From the Back Cover

Whatever your goals as a competitive cyclist may be, you need a reliable place to record your workouts and the way your body responds to training. The Cyclist’s Training Diary will help you make every workout count.

Joe Friel, cofounder of TrainingPeaks.com, shows you how to track your progress in a durable, portable format that is always at the ready. If you are designing your own annual training plan, Joe provides instructions for mapping out each training block and season to ensure you stay on track and succeed.

USE THIS DIARY TO

* Monitor daily signs and track your training periods from early preparation to pre-race taper and post-race transition.

* Record details of cycling and strength workouts with space for weekly summaries and tabulation of power, heart rate, and training stress score metrics.

* Plan a calendar year of training and racing, and track weekly and monthly achievements.

JOE FRIEL is an internationally recognized expert on endurance training with nearly 40 years of personal coaching experience. He is the author of the best-selling books The Cyclist’s Training Bible, The Power Meter Handbook, and Fast After 50.

Edition details

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937715833
• ISBN 13: 9781937715830
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 260