The ultimate guide to weight training for cycling / Robert G. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Robert G.

Series:

Ultimate guide to weight training for sports series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cycling--Training.

Cycling.

Physical fitness.

Sports--Physiological aspects.

Sports.

Muscle strength.

Weight training.

Physical Description:

160 p. : ill., forms.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Price World Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Cycling" is the most comprehensive and up-to-date cyclings-pecific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of nearly 100 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year round cycling-specific weight training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other cycling book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have cyclists of all skill levels achieving quicker times with less of a chance of injury and more energy for going up hills and riding on tougher tracks. By following the programs in this book, you will increase your lower body strength, endurance, and overall speed dramatically.Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too

Contents:

pt. 1. Cycling-specific training

pt. 2. Getting started

pt. 3. Recommended exercises

pt. 4. The necessities

pt. 5. Supplemental 4-week programs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-13253-2

9786613132536

1-936910-62-4