Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing [Paperback]

Ed Burke (Author)

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Paperback: 234 pages
Publisher: Vitesse Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (Dec 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0941950344
ISBN-13: 978-0941950343
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,295,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Amazon.com: 3.8 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The scene behind cycling, 18 July 2000

By JHC ENGELBRECHT - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

I read Serios Cycling from Ed Burke and realized that there is more to cycling than mere racing. Being a "new" cyclist at the age of 43 I had great difficulty to match the "older" cyclists that have been cycling competatively for the last 25 years. This book helped me to see what is all the preparation work behind the scenes. Mere fitness is not enough. You tend to hit the wall during training rides and feel confused because you are still not there. The understanding of how muscles work and what they need to continue performing at extreme levels of endurance made me to adapt my diet and pre-race preparation to ensure maximum energy, nutrition and oxygen are available to the working muscles to perform at their best. It was a complete mind change but today, less than three months since I bought this book fellow cyclist are questioning if I use steriods. They could not believe the improvement! The book is well laid out to explain the basic as well as the advanced detail of the body and mind and how to overcome those stages where you seem not to progress at all. If you are serious about cycling, get this book. You'll see what I mean!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference!, 20 July 2001

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This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

I will be reading this book several times. It's packed with information on how to maximize your training session, off-season training advice, nutitional info, how to cope with jet lag, ad infinitum. I recommend this book to all who take this sport seriously.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for introduction to cycling..., 2 Mar 2003

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This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

This book is written for the "layman" in regards to the physiology behind the sport of cycling. As someone not familiar with VO2 max or heart rate training or even different methods of training, this book is perfect.

As someone with an Exercise Physiology background, however, this book was nothing more than a reveiw of everything I have learned. I was looking for something more physiologically based.

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