Smart Cycle Training - Beware of Over Training
September 23, 2008
One of the most common mistakes cyclists make when taking up the sport is to do too much to soon.
It is natural to be enthusiastic about a new pursuit that you enjoy and wish to excel in but it’s important to remember one simple fact. Your fitness and physical ability does not improve while your cycling - it improves while your resting and in recovery. If you don’t allow enough recovery time regeneration cannot occur and your performance and development will plateau. Training for cycling necessarily puts stress on More on Smart Cycling Training
Bicycles For Humanity
September 17, 2008
| Bicycles for Humanity is a grassroots organisation that takes disused bikes and put them to great use in developing countries. Much of their current work is being done in Namibia with the Bicycle Empowerment Network(BEN). The shipping container which the bikes arrive in is turned into a bike workshop in the community in which it is placed. The work shop provides skills training and business opportunties while the bike are distributed to remote HIV/AIDS care workers who typically have to walk huge distances in their work. |
There are B4H chapters world wide. Go see where your nearest one is and donate your old bike, your time and any other resources for this great initiative.
25% of all revenue from the a salecycling on this site goes to our supported charities of which Bicycles for Humanity is the first. Do some good.
B4H Melbourne thanks its current sponsors.
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The Problem
Can you imagine the next week of your life with no transport other than walking? Can you also imagine the vast majority of the people in your city or region with no transport–the postal service, the police and ambulance, the delivery service that stocks your supermarket?
Kasrani Cycling and Triathlon Club
September 15, 2008
Not long after we launched Cycling-Secrets we got a very pleasant surprise that spurred us on and opened our eyes to the potential of what we are doing here. It was this email from Samuel Kibunja of the Kasanrani Cycling and Triathlon club in Nairobi, Kenya.
‘Am very thankful for your gift and also on behalf of the club,I received your free cycling secrets Software.This will usually help in well coaching our team, so that it can improve more in cycling. The team is
Resting Heart Rate
September 15, 2008
‘Resting heart rate’ refers to your heart rate in beats per minute when you are completely at rest.Your resting heart rate is often a good determination as to how fit you are, as well as indicating if you’re either over training or unwell - showing up as unxplained increases in resting heart rate.
Body Fat Percentage
September 12, 2008
If you’re serious about your cycling you probably care about your body fat percentage for the simple reason that the less fat you’re carrying around, the greater your power to weight ratio will be.
Body fat percentage is an estimate of the fraction of the total body mass that is adipose tissue (or referred to as Fat Mass), as opposed to lean body mass (muscle, bone, organ tissue, blood, and everything else) or referred to as Fat Free Mass. This index is often used as a means to monitor progress during a diet or as a measure of physical fitness for certain sports. It is more accurate as a measure of excess body weight than body mass index (BMI) since it differentiates between the weight of muscle mass and that of the fat mass while BMI lump all masses into one figure. However, its popularity is less than BMI because equipment required to perform the body fat percentage is not readily available and skills are required to perform the measurement. Even when measured by a skillful person, there are factors that contribute to a significant margin of error.
