Cycling On Form: A Pro Method of Riding Faster and Stronger - Softcover

Danielson, Tom; Danielson, Kourtney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948007045 ISBN 13: 9781948007047

Publisher: VeloPress, 2020

Synopsis

“After training with CINCH for the past three years, I’ve learned the cycling-specific techniques that make me a better rider and racer; healthier and injury-free; and more effective and positive off the bike.” -- Lilburn Shaw, 2018 Masters Road National Champion

Cycling on Form reveals the pro approach to cycling training. Riding a bike faster takes more than just fitness. It takes skills that you can master to become a faster, stronger rider. In his new guide, former professional bike racer Tom Danielson shows how to transform your cycling from amateur to professional level with the fitness and time you have now.

Danielson reveals how the pros go beyond the modern standards of interval workouts, base-building, and recovery to train the whole athlete, mind and body. Danielson shows how to truly ride and train to the fullest through:

• Fitness: Self-tests to identify your riding strengths and weaknesses then focus on custom training to address them.
• Mental focus: The pros know that winning means using your head and your legs. You’ll get pro tips on big-picture goal setting and mid-ride concentration strategies to help you stay focused.
• Execution: Cycling is hard and executing a great ride when it matters takes practice. Danielson shares on-the-bike skills, efficient and powerful techniques, strategies to stay in the race, ways to finish with the lead group, and how to excel on a ride you’ve never done before.
• Nutrition: Pro riders put sports nutrition into daily practice. Danielson distills the facts of diet, food as fuel, and fueling to recover.

Too many cyclists train by trying to set new Strava PRs, only to get frustrated by the limited gains. There’s a better way. Cycling On Form unlocks a pro method for riding faster and stronger.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Danielson is a former professional cyclist with consistent top 10 race results in elite stage races. Danielson kicked off his racing career winning the national collegiate mountain biking championship riding for Fort Lewis College. He began his pro road cycling career riding for Team Mercury and then Team Saturn. Danielson won the Tour de Langkawi, Nature Valley Grand Prix, the Cascade Cycling Classic, Tour de Toona, and the Mt. Washington Hill Climb. In 2004, Danielson signed on with the Italian squad Fassa Bortolo and then Discovery in 2005 when he won the Tour de Georgia. While riding for Discovery, Danielson won a stage of the Vuelta a España. Since 2007, Danielson has consistently placed in the top 10 in elite international and U.S. domestic stage races and Grand Tours, including stage wins in the 2011 Tour de France and USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

Kourtney Danielson is an avid cyclist who travels the world in search of the best experiences on two wheels.  Her cycling journey began when she learned to ride on the beautiful roads of Girona, Spain, with her husband, Tom.  She now resides in Colorado, and you can find her on the podium of road, gravel, and mountain bike races around the world.

From the Back Cover

AS A CYCLIST, you strive to be on form, finding that perfect moment of fitness and freshness that delivers a spot on the podium or a personal best. Through all of the intervals and tough group rides, you track your power numbers, mileage, and recovery, hoping to time it all so you’re at your best physically, mentally, and tactically.

WorldTour pro turned coach Tom Danielson presents a new approach to take your cycling to the next level. He’ll teach you how to develop the four essential components of cycling performance: FITNESS, EXECUTION, NUTRITION, and FOCUS. Anyone can build strength and endurance with consistent workouts, but prac¬ticing other elements of your ride will deliver long-term growth:

Strategize when you can use your power to your greatest advantage

Play to your strengths as a rider, whether you are naturally a puncheur, sprinter, climber, or time trialist

Change your body position to maximize watts

Align your mindset to your physical effort for greater efficiency

Choose foods that fuel your body and match nutrient quantity to the day’s ride

TOM DANIELSON raced at the top tier of pro cycling, taking stage wins in the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana as well as an eighth-place overall finish in the Tour. Tom and his wife, Kourtney, are the founders of CINCH Cycling.

Edition details

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948007045
• ISBN 13: 9781948007047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272