Bike Fit

September 9, 2008

This book is about general bicycle fit for road and mountain bike riding.It also covers fit specifics for recreational, climbing, sprinting, time trialing, and cross-country mountain biking. The right size bicycle frame and components, and their adjustment, is important. Proper fit allows you to be comfortable, ride safely, and work effectively. It reduces or treats overuse injuries. Proper fit makes you a better rider.
‘Bike Fit’ also shows that some traditional advice really has no basis, and that there are many options that may allow riders to ride more comfortably, with greater performance, or treat an overuse injury. ‘Bike Fit’ covers everything from frame fit and bike positioning to specialty riding and anatomical considerations. Get the most out of your body and bike and avoid injury with ‘Bike Fit’.

Bike Fit

19.95 USD

eBook - (224 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Smart Cycling Coaching

September 9, 2008

Smart Coaching is directed to new and experienced aerobic-endurance sport coaches. Coaches in non-aerobic and non-endurance sports will find much of interest to them as well.Arnie has used much of the material in the book to help train nearly 1,000 coaches in the sports of cycling, running, triathlon, and walking.
Learn about:

  • Roles of coaches
  • Coaching responsibilities
  • Communication skills
  • Hints for giving talks
  • Coaching style
  • Motivation and confidence in athletes
  • Nutrition
  • Safety and risk management
  • Training principles
  • Fitness systems
  • Strength and flexibility training
  • Coaching beginners, older athletes, and athletes with disabilities
  • Workouts

Cycling Skills

12.95 USD

eBook - (74 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

High Intensity Training For Cyclists

September 9, 2008

This volume takes fitness riders and racers beyond the training provided in previous training books to two-hour plus trainer workouts.
Break down the elements of cycling fitness. Decide how to separate out and train each element. Decide in what order to train each fitness element. Figure out which exercises give the most benefit with the least suffering. Find out which exercises are easy to do right and hard to do wrong. That’s what HITTM is all about.Chapters discuss measuring training intensity, overtraining, and recovery. Heart-rate, power-based, and torque-based training are discussed in detail. Evaluating training stress using these are other measures is discussed in detail.
The second section of the book explores the theoretical basis of interval training, as well as the practicalities of program design.

The third part of the book gives practical hints and guidelines for interval training.

The fourth part of the book is the standard 3-month progressive systems high-intensity training program.

The fifth part of the book is a rapid 5 to 9 week peaking high-intensity program.

Training and fitness standards for excellence for men and women as well as for masters age groups by 10-year increments are listed in appendix A.
Finally, there is a quiz to see how well you have learned the material!

Cycling Skills

22.95 USD

eBook - (224 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Altitude Climbing Endurance

September 9, 2008

Altitude Climbing Endurance (ACETM) Training for Cyclists reviews the principles of bicycle training, and specifically discusses training for ACETM events–which are defined as one-day rides or races of more than 100 miles with more than 10,000 feet of cumulative climbing. Arnie has not forgotten to list practical workouts as well.
Learn about:

  • Bicycling fitness, workouts, aerobic and anaerobic training
  • Improving your climbing endurance and your climbing speed
  • Climbing and descending skills
  • The effects of altitude
  • The importance of pacing
  • Endurance sport nutrition
  • The equipment you’ll need for ACETM events
  • Motivation theory and strategies that help you keep focused

Cycling Skills

18.95 USD

eBook - (127 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Arnie Baker - Super Coach

September 9, 2008

Arnie Baker, M.D. is the author of over 15 cycling and endurance sports books. His long experience as a medical doctor, cycling coach and advisor to bodies such as the International Olympic Committee identify him as a recognised expert in the field of cycling, sports medicine and nutrition.His coaching career includes 4 Olympic competitions, more than 120 US National Championships with 40 US record holders. He is the national coach for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America’s team in Training - the world’s largest endurance training program with 30,000 annual participants.

Arnie’s racing credentials are second to none. As a CAT 1 Elite road racer he has more than 200 career wins and over 13 course records. He has held the US National Champion title six times and been US National Record holder eight times.

Cycling -Secrets is very happy to be able to offer Arnie’s knowledge and experience through his set of e-books covering everything from psychology and tactics to bike fit and nutrition. If you’re serious about your cycling you should listen to this man.

Cycling Skills

Cycling E-books by Arnie Baker

Nutrition For Cycling

Cycling Strategies and Tactics

High Intensity For Cyclists

Cycling Skills Training

Altitude Climbing Endurance Training

Cycling Psychology

Bike Fit

Smart Cycle Coaching

Cycling Skills E-Book

September 8, 2008

Athletic skills are an important part of successful and lifetime enjoyment of sport.Fitness is paramount with most athletes and coaches-many of whom do not realize the importance of skills.Too often, most people acquire skills merely through hit-or-miss riding. Skills training speeds and refines the process.

Skill Training for Cyclists shows you how to hit and not miss!

Learn about:

  • Skills acquisition
  • Balance
  • Focus
  • Specific skills: general, climbing & descending., proximity, racer
  • Road and mountain bike

Cycling Skills

12.95 USD

eBook - (224 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Cycling Psychology E-Book

September 1, 2008

Psychling Psychology (Mind Training for Cyclists), reviews the principles of sport psychology. Psychological training, along with physical and skills training, has an important role to play in improving athletic performance. The fourteen main chapters of this book are cover each aspect of priming your mind for success and endless improvement. Learn about:● Goal setting
● Motivation
● Confidence
● Arousal
● Focus
● Affirmations & Imagery
● Pain Management
● Stress Sources & Symptoms
● Breaking Bad Habits
● Anti-Anxiety Training
● Overtraining
● Dealing With Bad Results
● Exercise-Related Personality Changes

Cycling Psychology

12.95 USD

eBook - (78 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Cycling Tactics

September 1, 2008

“There are three kinds of riders at the end of a race.Those who say:

What happened.

Those who let it happen

And those who make it happen.”

This book is about making it happen.It not only for racers. Spectators will learn to better appreciate the sport. There are approximately 75 illustrations.
Learn about:

  • Using energy wisely
  • Making your rivals work harder
  • Tactical psychology
  • Attacking
  • Blocking
  • Gapping
  • Breakaways
  • Primes and finishing strategies
  • Teamwork
  • Road, criterium, stage, and time trial strategy and tactics

Cycling Psychology

19.95 USD

eBook - (155 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.

Nutrition for Sports E-book

September 1, 2008

Nutrition for Sport is a comprehensive review of sports nutrition with an eye to the aerobic-endurance athlete. Cyclists, runners, triathletes, and walkers will appreciate the down-to-earth practical advice, the debunking of advertising, as well as the detailed explanations and comprehensive reference material provided about every vitamin and mineral.
Learn about:

  • Sport foods–before, during, and after exercise.
  • Foods for energy.
  • Performance-enhancing and performance-robbing substances.
  • Quick, nutritious fast food.
  • Nutritional quackery.
  • Losing weight.
  • How rapid weight changes don’t reflect fat losses.
  • Who, what, where, and how: About every vitamin and mineral.
  • Did you know?
  • Few athletes drink more than 16 ounces an hour; sweat losses can exceed 100 ounces an hour.
  • Just like the glycogen window, there is a fat window.
  • Although sodium is the electrolyte priority for aerobic endurance athlete, calcium and iron loss in sweat ca contribute to deficiency.
  • Many supplements marketed to improve muscle mass are contaminated with anabolic steroids.
Cycling Psychology
19.95 USD

eBook - (155 pages, estimated.)
This is an electronic book in PDF format. There are no shipping or handling costs. You will be directed to a download page after purchase.