Certainly one of our greatest targets right here at Bicycling is for each story we write or piece of content material we create to be in dialog with you. What we do is guided by what you, our readers, have on the mind in terms of using, health, coaching, and equipment.
Wanting again at among the well being and health tales you learn most this month, it will appear that what was in your collective thoughts in September was averages, particularly averages inside our respective age teams—the common distances we’re using, the common speeds we’re doing it at, and our common physique compositions.
It is sensible to be curious the place you fall and to need to benchmark your efficiency, and this appears to be very true in terms of using speeds. In my expertise speaking with all types of cyclists over time, a typical concern/query many people appear to harbor deep down is, “Am I too sluggish?” (No, you’re not.)
One thing else you have been intensely on this month was, properly, depth—using and figuring out onerous sufficient to realize health and turn out to be a stronger rider. You additionally wished to know how one can discover methods to slot in biking exercises that push you into these greater coronary heart charge zones in ways in which match into busy schedules if you solely have half-hour to get it achieved.
Talking of depth, one among our hottest tales of this previous month was about high intensity interval training—aka HIIT— for older adults. On this story, we look at the advantages of structured HIIT coaching for senior cyclists and dive into how one can execute it safely and successfully. (One other nice assets for every part associated to using robust for all times is our Riding Strong at 50+ program).
You all additionally questioned how biking compares as a cardio exercise to different frequent cairo pursuits, like swimming and working. How biking and working examine is a typical subject of dialog right here at Bicycling HQ as properly, since we work intently with staffers of our sister publication, Runner’s World.
Engaged on core strength is one thing everyone knows we have to prioritize as cyclists and people who need to transfer properly and pain-free, and many people know that planks are a go-to core train that may construct that energy. However what in case you’re like nearly each coaching shopper I’ve ever labored with and simply…don’t like doing planks? (Certainly one of my shoppers has a t-shirt that claims, “Planks don’t such as you, both.”) Don’t fear, we’ve obtained you coated with a bevy of core workouts with no plank within the lot.
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Natascha has been a NASM-certified private coach for over ten years, specializing in useful energy coaching and corrective train—which is a flowery manner of claiming her ardour is instructing individuals how one can transfer higher, with extra energy and fewer ache. She holds a number of certifications, together with specializations in corrective train, stretching and adaptability, habits change, diet and extra. She’s additionally been into bikes for nearly three a long time, and has at numerous instances been a motorbike mechanic, a body builder’s apprentice, a grunt at a motorbike messenger firm, a health studio proprietor, a Spin teacher and some various things at just a few totally different bike firms. Lately, she’s one among Bicycling’s Well being and Health editors.
