A week-by-week training journal provides tips on how to train effectively, achieve and maintain fitness, race strategically, select the best gear, and observe optimal nutrition, in an illustrated guide that provides additional space for tracking one's personal progress. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Biking Log Track your bike rides and routes in one easy to carry book with this simple and clean bicycle log. If your like me you love to have everything on one spot. bicycle log offers ample room to record your the route, conditions among other important aspects of your biking experience. Check out some of the features. Portable on the go size at 6in x 9in 110 Bike riding entries to log. This books gives you room to track everything from date, time, route details, distance, speed, weather conditions, intensity, bike type and accessories as well as additional notes.

Provides a guide to achieving the one-hundred-mile-per-day biking goal, sharing counsel on how to customize a fitness-based training plan, select a bicycle and equipment, and use fueling and hydration strategies.

Suggests ways cyclists can improve their performance by focusing on key concepts and fundamentals, off-season training, and coaching.

""A carefully maintained record of training is a great tool for improving racing,"" writes Joe Friel in the introduction to this cyclists' training diary. He shows how to record daily workout details and how to plan a season. The book includes photos, worksheets, and charts for weight changes and bike measurements. ""Joe Friel is arguably the most experienced personal cycling coach in the U.S."" -- Bicycling

Coach Joe Friel is the most trusted name in endurance sports coaching, and his Cyclist's Training Bible is the most comprehensive and reliable training resource ever written for cyclists. This new edition of the bestselling book includes all of the latest advances in training and technology. Using this book, cyclists can create a comprehensive, self-coached training plan that is both scientifically proven and shaped around their personal goals. Friel empowers athletes with every detail they need to consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing to race. This fourth edition includes extensive revisions on the specifics of how to train and what to eat. Friel explains how cyclists can: best gauge intensity with power meters and other new training technology to maximize form and fitness and reduce fatigue; more knowledgeably and accurately make changes to their annual training plan over the course of a season; dramatically build muscular endurance with strength training; improve body composition and recovery with smarter nutrition. With more case studies to draw from and multiple contingency plans for those times when training doesn't progress as planned, The Cyclist's Training Bible continues to be the definitive guide to optimal cycling performance.

A compelling, insightful, and informative training handbook for cyclists of all abilities.