The Cyclist's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

By: Joe Friel

Narrated by: Brian Arens

Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the best-selling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced cyclists.

Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven cycling training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport.

Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

The Cyclist's Training Bible equips cyclists of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this all-new audio edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized cycling training program and:

• Train with the right intensity and volume
• Gain maximum fitness from every workout
• Change your training plan over the course of the season
• Make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
• Build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
• Improve body composition with smarter nutrition

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the world's most trusted guide to cycling training. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this audio version of the bible of the sport.

This audio edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques, improves on ways to develop technique, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance. The Cyclist's Training Bible is skillfully narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible listener favorite.

All training plans, exercises, and graphics are included in the supplementary PDF.

Please note: The audio refers to an Appendix B that is available only as the final chapter of the audiobook, not in the accompanying PDF.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Joe Friel (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

Fantastic information for self-trainers!

As a certified fitness trainer and amateur cyclist, I think this book is perfect for those wanting to train themselves to be better cyclists. the information is practical and well presented, and following a structured training plan as recommended can do wonders for performance.
This book may not be helpful for advanced cyclists who have worked with a cycling coach in the past.

Great info

Great info on periodization and how to improve as an advanced cyclist, but mostly it taught me I am not there yet. I still need some years of just riding more before doing all of this. Will do some of this before races but mainly focus on riding more in the majority of the year.

And yes, there is a supplementary pdf contrary to what the other reviewer said and it is available in the audible app.

Most knowledge packed cycling book I've ever read

Really enjoyed the book. Learned a lot. this is so that I can hit the minimum word limit

Appendix B is missing

I'm in love with the book, everything is really well structured, but it was a surprise to see that appendix B which refers to workouts is missing.

This book and wko5 is a perfect match.

I use this book(Cyclist Training Bible=>CTB) and wko5 to help improve my cycling performance, CTB is a great book that explains the training concepts not listed in wko5 webinars and gives me some more options that are also likely to make me stronger. These concepts are listed below:
1.weight training, it is high risk but also high return.

2.Every 2-3 weeks followed by 1 rest week, if you want to do some ftp test or threshold heart rate test, 3-5 days of rest before your test is recommended.

3.Professional bike fit is highly recommended and should be done every year, you may gain even 10% more of you power output after bike fit.

4.CTB explains the importance of the base phase using EF(efficency factor) that shows you an exact number of how much your aerobic fitness increases or decrease throughout your year.

There is still more to discover, listening(also reading) CTB only once is not enough, at least I need to listen/read it 3 times to get the most out of it. This book is great and highly recommended!

No supplementary pdf

No supplementary PDF. The book refers to the PDF all the time making it pretty useless

Missing Appendix B

Great concepts. But pdf is missing Appendix B (workouts). Please update! Impractical to put concepts into practice without it.