Athlete Cycling

Despite the howling protests from his peers, no one's ever been more willing to spill the beans on what it's really like inside the pro cycling peloton than the sarcastic scribe Phil Gaimon. Building on the outrageous success of his hilarious 2014 debut, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro, Gaimon gathers the absolute gems from his monthly Q & A feature column in VeloNews magazine into his new book, Ask a Pro.

Like countless other kids, Phil Gaimon grew up dreaming of being a professional athlete. But unlike countless other kids, he actually pulled it off. After years of amateur races, hard training, living out of a suitcase, and never taking "no" for an answer, he finally achieved his goal and signed a contract to race professionally on one of the best teams in the world. Now, Gaimon pulls back the curtain on the WorldTour, cycling's highest level.

The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don't have one brain - you have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that's when bad things happen. What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don't want? You can.

Until now, sport training has been more witchcraft than science. Traditional coaching is based on copying recipes written in old books, with little science and more answers than questions. Traditional physiology, also marked by reductionism and the idea that the organism works like a machine, gives us incomplete and unsatisfactory answers that are inadequate when we leave the theoretical world to go to the real world. In this book, we approach the world of training from the perspective of Complex Systems, which will offer us a new vision of the world, health and organisms. In this book, you...

Are you an experienced athlete frustrated by stalled gains and nagging aches? Welcome to Hormone Cycling for Athletes Over 40, the ultimate playbook for seasoned competitors who refuse to concede to age. Drawing on clinical data and battle tested protocols this guide teaches you how to assess your unique hormonal baseline with targeted lab panels; design phase based testosterone growth hormone and peptide cycles that respect aging physiology; protect your joints and connective tissue with prehab pro collagen nutrition and precision peptide timing; guard your heart by monitoring lipids blood...

Discover the untold training philosophy of Arnold Schwarzenegger—one built not on brute intensity, but on intelligent cycles of effort, recovery, and adaptation. Iron Cycles reveals how the world’s most iconic bodybuilder trained across eras, injuries, and shifting goals to build muscle that lasted—and how you can do the same. From his raw beginnings in Austrian basements to the punishing Olympia years, movie sets, surgeries, political office, and beyond, this book lays out the system Arnold followed: strategic training phases designed to evolve with your age, lifestyle, and ...

Bodybuilder's Guide to Anabolic Steroids is a definitive resource for understanding the multifaceted world of anabolic steroids. With rigorous attention to detail, the book delves into the scientific underpinnings and real-world applications of steroid use and management. From the biological mechanisms of steroids and their varied effects on the human body to the intricacies of cycle planning and post-cycle recovery, this guide leaves no stone unturned. The chapters provide a systematic breakdown of essential topics including legal ramifications, societal implications, and the global ...

Between choosing the right equipment, unfamiliar body positioning, and still needing to be able to run after riding in a race, many athletes feel overwhelmed and don't know where to start with the triathlon bike. Triathlon Bike Foundations is written by a triathlete for triathletes. It will guide athletes in picking the right equipment on any budget and making sure their bikes are set up to be as comfortable as possible.

“A poignant, heartbreaking and powerful story, a chance for each of us to find a way to level up, contribute and do things we never thought possible.” —Seth Godin (Author, The Song of Significance, and delighted Cruzbike rider) When she was nine years old, her gym teacher gave a fitting nickname to a slow and uncoordinated little girl: jelly bean. In this candid and uplifting memoir, ultra athlete Maria Parker chronicles her swanlike transformation from unathletic jelly bean to elite endurance cyclist. Parker also examines the connection between the unchosen suffering of losing her ...

Unlock the most overlooked driver of elite strength and hypertrophy: eccentric training. Negative to Positive: Eccentric Overload Cycling for Strength and Size is the definitive guide to eccentric resistance methods, revealing how controlled muscle-lengthening phases produce unmatched gains in size, force production, and injury resilience. Written for advanced lifters, coaches, and sports performance professionals, this evidence-based resource covers everything from the cellular physiology of eccentric contractions to the application of cutting-edge tools like flywheels and weight releasers...

A retired NFL player shares his story of achieving maximum success as a professional athlete, followed by notoriety in corporate America, then catastrophic failures that cost him everything he owned in just 90 days. But even in the face of crushing defeat, he identified and put into action the traits required to rise from the ashes and find success again. Now this inspiring, candidly written, and time-tested method of success is available to you!

When Hunter Hercules, the biggest soccer star in the Northlands, is transferred to play in the Motherlands, he's mad as hell. Not only is their style of soccer different, but they have mixed teams, and his female captain, Emanuela, calls him unsophisticated and claims that she's a better player than him. The whole thing is ridiculous and infuriating to Hunter. That's why when the soccer club sends all the players on a team-building trip, Hunter shows up determined to put the little woman in her place. It should have been easy, but Emanuela isn't someone he can push around.

More than a century after they first entered the mainstream, bicycles and the culture around them are as accessible as ever - but for women, that progress has always been a struggle to achieve, and even now the culture remains overwhelmingly male. In Revolutions, author Hannah Ross highlights the stories of extraordinary women cyclists and all-female cycling groups over time and around the world, and demonstrates both the feminist power of cycling and its present-day issues.