Ride Inside: The Essential Guide to Get the Most Out of Indoor Cycling, Smart Trainers, Classes, and Apps - Softcover

Friel, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948007134 ISBN 13: 9781948007139

Publisher: Velopress, 2020

Synopsis

From bad weather to business travel to traffic safety, there are dozens of reasons why cyclists and triathletes take their rides inside. Although indoor cycling workouts offer the ultimate control over workout conditions, most inside riders don’t get the most out of their trainers or spin bikes.

From bad weather to business travel to traffic safety, there are dozens of reasons why cyclists and triathletes take their rides inside. Although indoor cycling workouts offer the ultimate control over workout conditions, most inside riders don’t get the most out of their trainers or spin bikes.

RIDE INSIDE offers cyclists and triathletes a smart guide to getting more fitness from every indoor cycling workout. From the world’s most experienced personal cycling coach, Joe Friel, RIDE INSIDE reveals all the unique aspects of indoor riding:

• Mental aspects like motivation, focus, and enjoyment
• Changes in upper body stability, posture, and pedaling technique on a stationary bike
• Respiration, hydration, and cooling
• Inherent changes in power output
• Lower leg tension and eccentric loading from flywheel momentum
• Lower effort from lack of terrain changes, headwinds, and crosswinds
• Road-like feel
• Different shifting patterns

All these differences of indoor riding add up to a big impact when the rubber hits the road.

Drawing from the foundations of Friel’s classic training guides, The Cyclist’s Training Bible and The Triathlete’s Training Bible, RIDE INSIDE shows how to apply smart and proven training concepts to indoor cycling. Riders will get expert guidance on the best ways to set up a trainer or smart trainer, how to modify outdoor workouts for indoor cycling, how to better monitor power and RPE, and how to use social online training platforms like Zwift to make training better and not worse.

Most critically, RIDE INSIDE shows cyclists and triathletes how to do indoor cycling workouts that actually meet their training goals instead of compromising.

About this title

About the Author

Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients have included elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. They have been from all corners of the globe and included American and foreign national champions, world championship competitors, and an Olympian. Joe holds a masters degree in exercise science, is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified coach, and is the past Chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission. He is a featured columnist for Inside Triathlon and VeloNews magazines, and writes feature stories for other international publications and websites. Joe conducts seminars around the country on training and racing for cyclists, multisport athletes, and coaches, and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. Every year Joe selects a group of the brightest coaches with the greatest potential and oversees their progress as they move into the ranks of elite-level coaching. As an age-group competitor, he was a Colorado State Masters Triathlon Champion, a Rocky Mountain region and Southwest region duathlon age-group champion, was on several All-American teams and represented the USA at the world championships several times. He also competes in road-running races and USCF bike races.
Jim Rutberg is the communications manager for Haute Route and the media director for Carmichael Training Systems. He is coauthor, with Chris Carmichael, of The Time-Crunched Cyclist, The Time-Crunched Triathlete, The Ultimate Ride, Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness, Chris Carmichael’s Fitness Cookbook, The Carmichael Training Systems Cyclist’s Training Diary, 5 Essentials for a Winning Life, and innumerable web and magazine articles. His work has appeared in Bicycling, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, VeloNews, Inside Triathlon, and more. A graduate of Wake Forest University and former elite cyclist, Rutberg lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Leslie, and their two sons, Oliver and Elliot.

From the Back Cover

FROM THE SOLITARY HUM of a smart trainer in the basement to the lively soundtracks of an online e-race or class at a cycling studio, technology has transformed indoor cycling to a fun, effective, and interactive experience for cyclists, triathletes, and exercise enthusiasts.

Indoor cycling can be an expressway to improved fitness, weight loss, and more strength on the bike . . . but only if you train smart. In Ride Inside, renowned cycling and triathlon coach Joe Friel guides you through the at-home pain cave, showing how you can maximize your time on the bike.

*Avoid the all-too-common plateau in ATHLETIC PROGRESSION and instead make gains over a full training season

*Identify the correct POWER + HEART RATE ZONES for your workouts

*TRANSITION smoothly between indoor and outdoor riding

*Use the latest TRAINING TECH the right way--to build you up, not wear you out

*Join GROUP RIDES + E-RACES on platforms like Zwift, RGT, or Peloton(R), and enjoy online communities while you pedal your way to greater fitness

Whether you ride inside year-round or on just a few bad-weather days, you can build and maintain fitness by training smart and mastering the latest indoor cycling tools and apps.

JOE FRIEL is an internationally recognized expert on endurance training with nearly 40 years of personal coaching experience. His revolutionary approach to training has made him a go-to source for elite, professional, and national-team athletes around the globe.

JIM RUTBERG has been coaching and writing about outdoor and endurance sports for 20 years. He has written numerous books and articles on cycling, triathlon, and ultrarunning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Velopress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948007134
• ISBN 13: 9781948007139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216