I learned today that using the correct technique for box step ups makes this exercise much much harder and really gets the quads fired up like nothing else! The trick is to do this exercise with proper form and technique by
1. lifting the opposite leg into the air at the top of the position and [...]

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I’ve been riding bikes on and off my whole life and through the years I “trained” as best as I could, but I think since the last time I was seriously biking about 9 years ago I have learned the most about training and my own body and how it reacts and what works best [...]

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I’ve been weight training my legs a lot more seriously this off season more then I ever have before even when I was bodybuilding. I’m becoming a student of leg training lately trying lots of different leg exercises and thinking about the pros and cons of each exercise. I’ve learned a coupled things recently like

I’m [...]

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Until this year I’ve never trained much for cycling in the off season, but this year is different and I am training straight through the winter and setting goals and meeting them. I’m really happy with my progress so far and I think a lot of it has to do with me doing having clear [...]

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So after much research and inner reflection, meditation, intuitive hunches, signs from above etc. I decided that it’s only logical that a taller rider would best fit a longer length crank which would be relatively proportional to their leg length. Any other argument against it wasn’t logical to me.
Saying that a tall rider should ride [...]

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Found a link to this news site http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9496562 at this post where there was another bike/cyclist conflict. I think I’ve seen examples of both cases of where the driver was at fault and the cyclists was at fault and also where both where at fault in an accident.
I would say that we should defend ourselves, [...]

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Good post about post accident review of a cyclist’s accident and a link to 10 road cycling safety tips.
I agree that wearing a helmet is important, but that statistically speaking when someone gets killed by a car they’re usually crushed to death and smashed in ways that not even a motorcycle helmet would have saved [...]

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Lance had a strong showing at the Tour Down Under yesterday, even surprising himself with his perfomance. I’m so excited to see Lance racing again this season, espepecally since I’m an older rider as well 2 yrs younger then Lance. I read in another article as well that his coach Chris Carmichael had to slow [...]

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There seems to be much debate in the forums, books and studies about the effectiveness of lifting weights and strength training for cyclists or endurance athletes in general. I think one key point that is always ignored is that we are all built differently and everyone has unique strengths and weaknesses that we’re [...]

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I was training hard as usual today but I felt off since I woke up, at the gym the feeling didn’t go away and after a couple sets of weight lifting I felt weak and jittery. I decided to cheat on today’s session and left early. Normally I would not do this but I”m starting [...]

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