Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing

Burke, Ed R.,Burke, Edmund R.

ISBN 10: 0941950344 / ISBN 13: 9780941950343

Published by Vitesse Pr, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing
• Publisher: Vitesse Pr
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941950344
• ISBN 13: 9780941950343
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

U.S. Olympic cycling manager Ed Burke presents practical cyclist-to-cyclist advice on how the heart, lungs, and muscles work and how this knowledge can help any rider get the most out of the sport. This is the book for the cyclist who wants to know the why of training, not just how. U.S. Olympic cycling manager Ed Burke presents practical cyclist-to-cyclist advice on how the heart, lungs, and muscles work and how this knowledge can help any rider get the most out of the sport. This is the book for the cyclist who wants to know the why of training, not just how.

About the Author

Ed Burke, Ph.D., was one on the leading experts on sports medicine and a professor and the director of the Exercise Science Program at the University of Colorado. He wrote fourteen books and hundreds of columns for Winning Magazine, Mountain Biker, Muscular Development, Nutritional Science News and NORBA News and Bicycling Magazine.