Cycling Fitness

Ditch the cookie-cutter programs. Smart Gains delivers a cutting-edge approach to strength training for serious lifters who want to harness the power of data and technology. Written for athletes, coaches, and performance-driven gym-goers, this book teaches you how to use heart rate variability, bar speed, sleep metrics, and AI-driven feedback loops to guide your training in real time. Whether you're chasing hypertrophy, strength, or sustainable performance, this system shows you how to adapt each week based on your actual recovery, not a fixed calendar. Inside, you'll learn to sync ...

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 ...

Are you tired of listening to the same advice that simply gets you nowhere? If so, then what do you have to lose by trying a carb cycling diet that’s specifically designed for endomorph women! Think about it, people go low carb all of the time, but are they able to maintain the results they get? They aren’t, which is why you must approach low carb in a unique way that's actually enjoyable, sustainable, and works with your body type. This is where carb cycling comes into play, but not just carb cycling, carb cycling specifically for endomorph women.

The Haywire Heart is the first book to examine heart conditions in athletes. Intended for anyone who competes in endurance sports like cycling, triathlon, running races of all distances, and cross-country skiing, The Haywire Heart presents the evidence that going too hard or too long can damage your heart forever. You'll find what to watch out for, what to do about it, and how to protect your heart so you can enjoy the sports you love for years to come.

Roid rage is real. But it’s not what you’ve been told. It’s not a myth. It’s not just a headline. And it’s not something you fix by “calming down” or “taking a walk.” If you’re using anabolic steroids—or even thinking about it—this book tells you what actually happens to your brain, your mood, your relationships, and your reputation. No hype. No fluff. Just sharp systems for recognizing and managing chemically-driven volatility. Roid Rage Management is not about scaring you. It’s about giving you tools. Each chapter delivers real-world, tested strategies for ...

With her groundbreaking Rezoom Reframe, Susan Peirce Thompson, PhD, founder of Bright Line Eating, offers a new way to conceptualize food recovery. She shares the essential steps to avoiding the short-lived highs and vicious lows of relapse by helping you understand the psychological and biological origins of addiction and then giving you the system to break free.

From celebrated fitness trainer Chris Powell, star of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, comes this inspirational weight-loss book to help anyone conquer their weight. You've seen him change lives on television. Now, in Choose to Lose, Powell presents fast and easy workouts, diet guidance, basic recipes, and insight into finding the true transformation mindset. Following his Carb Cycle Solution, you can drop pounds safely and quickly while learning how to "listen to your body" to optimize your overall health and fitness.

Are you new to road bike cycling and looking for some friendly, supportive, down-to-earth help that isn't shared in a way that talks down to you? Then look no further than Road Bike Cycling: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide. This bite-sized beginner's guide doesn't take itself too seriously, and, while written in a playful, amusing style, includes excellent advice that will tell you everything you need to know to get the most enjoyment out of your new road cycling hobby.

Robert Penn has saddled up nearly every day of his adult life. In his late 20s, he pedaled 25,000 miles around the world. Today he rides to get to work, sometimes for work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to travel, to go shopping, to stay sane, and to skip bath time with his kids. He's no Sunday pedal pusher. So when the time came for a new bike, he decided to pull out all the stops. He would build his dream bike, the bike he would ride for the rest of his life; a customized machine that reflects the joy of cycling.

Is it hard to manage your carbohydrate intake? Do you have trouble with diets that cut out carbs entirely? Would you like to find a better way to slim down and avoid binging? If so, Carb Cycling: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Transformation is the book you’ve been waiting for! It explains how this powerful method helps you lose weight, increase your sports performance, and build up your muscle mass.

If you can ride a bike across town, you can ride across the country. And all that spandex? It's totally optional. With this book, learn what to eat, where to sleep, how to find a route that works for you, what to pack, crack logistics for transporting your bike, the all-important psychology of touring, and why training sucks.

Why are people gaining weight faster than ever before? According to Alan Christianson, NMD, our bodies are under attack from all directions - an overabundance of processed food, a polluted world, and the pressures of daily life all take their toll. These attacks hit a little known but very important set of glands, the adrenals, particularly hard. One of the many jobs of the adrenals is to maintain a normal cortisol rhythm.

From bad weather to business travel, to traffic safety, there are dozens of reasons why cyclists and triathletes take their rides inside. Although indoor cycling workouts offer the ultimate control over workout conditions, most inside riders don’t get the most out of their trainers or spin bikes. Ride Inside offers cyclists and triathletes a smart guide to getting more fitness from every indoor cycling workout. From the world’s most experienced personal cycling coach, Joe Friel, Ride Inside reveals all the unique aspects of indoor riding.

Triathlon: Winning at 70.3 is dedicated to all triathletes who are thinking about stepping up to the middle distance. 70.3 Half Ironman training requires quite a different approach to the shorter distances, and to be successful, a more professional approach to training is required. Do not set yourself up for failure on race day! Simply doubling your Olympic distance training will not work. Those who do this will struggle. Do not be one of these! 70.3 triathlon is a serious step up and preparation is key.

This audiobook introduces you to a new dietary approach called the carb cycling diet. This dietary approach recommends that you do not eliminate carbs from your diet but instead, alternate between low carb and high carb days. This diet has gained popularity in the last decade because of the many benefits it offers.

Stop guessing. Start dominating. Periodization and Advanced Programming for Powerlifting is the definitive manual for lifters and coaches who demand more than random sets and rep schemes. Written for intermediate to elite athletes, this book deconstructs the science of long-term strength development and delivers practical frameworks for programming that actually work on the platform. Inside, you'll explore the evolution of periodization models from linear progression to block, undulating, and concurrent systems. Learn when to use each model, how to sequence training phases, and why ...

Do you struggle with anxiety, sugar cravings, weight gain, and fatigue? You aren't alone. In our busy, overscheduled lives, many of us turn to fast food to relieve stress and meet the challenges of our jobs, families, and relationships. But these "on-the-go" meals—which are typically low in protein and high in sugar—can actually contribute to our anxiety, add to our waistlines, and increase our risk of developing devastating medical problems. So, what can you do to break free from this vicious cycle?

Do you regularly deprive yourself, succumb to temptation, feel guilty, and then start the process all over again? If so, you need this audiobook. Dr. Michelle May will guide you out of the food-focused, diet-driven downward spiral that leads you to eat, repent, and repeat. She offers a powerful alternative: stop being afraid of food and start eating mindfully and joyfully.

Don’t allow binge eating to control your life: The key to food freedom may not be what you think. We all occasionally overeat an extra helping of dessert or a second serving of a holiday meal, but there is a difference between overeating and binge eating. People who struggle with binge eating often consume large quantities of food to the point of feeling overly full, eat a lot without feeling hungry, feel a lack of control, and they become trapped by cycles of bingeing that undermine their health and weight loss goals.

The Diet-Free Revolution debunks the myths we've been sold about food, nutrition, health, and weight loss and offers an antidote to the pain and suffering caused by yo-yo diets, untenable food regimens, and quick fixes. Clinical psychologist and eating-disorder specialist Alexis Conason shows that finding health, happiness, and real nourishment is about more than changing what, how, or when we eat: It's about radically shifting our relationship with food by healing our relationship to ourselves.