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Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100
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By Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky
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Da Capo Press
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May 9, 2005 |
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Paperback
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368
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Do you want to ride to 100? Bike for Life! Ride a century when you turn a century. That’s the promise offered by nationally-known bicycle journalists Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky in Bike for Life, a blueprint for using cycling to achieve longevity, fitness, and overall well-being. America’s largest participatory sport combines physical and mental challenges, relaxation, achievement, adventure, and social interaction as it unifies different generations and demographics in fitness and fun. To get the most our of your riding time, steer clear of the sport's potholes, and enjoy a long lifetime of fitness, Bike for Life's comprehensive plan includes: • Cutting-edge training strategies for best-ever fitness at any age • An anti-aging strength plan to revive muscularity and reaction time • An exclusive 10-step cycling-specific yoga routine • How to beat common injuries like Cyclist’s Knee and Biker’s Back • Famous coaches’ climbing, cornering, handling and eating tips • A cure for cycling-related sexual problems in men and women • 16 ways to stop the scary cycling-osteoporosis connection • List of must-do hill climbs, mass city rides, and cross-state events • Rx for Relationships: Reconciling cycling and significant others • How to survive mountain lions, bike-jackers, poison ivy, headwinds, & more
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A great resource., August 23, 2010
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I found this book full of practical advice and vital information for cyclists of all ages. I loved reading the life stories of various well known and famous cyclists. I was so impressed with this book that I have bought an extra two copies to give to friends.
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Excellent pointers for long term biking, July 30, 2010
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This book was just what I needed to help change my perspective on biking. I really like biking but needed to take it to the next level. This is a really nice book on many perspectives. It is a helpful reference book, a book of interviews with the great names in the bicycling world, a book packed with fitness tips for all ages, interviews with people who have biked for many years and still bike. Here's just on piece of advice I got from an interview: "Don't sit down for an hour after dinner" and make your self comfortable by wearing the right clothes and so much more. You really don't even have to be a bike rider to enjoy the benefit of this book.
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Excellent gift for an athlete, July 4, 2010
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Ultra complete comprehensive readable book on the biking and fitness category that gives a super emotional twist intertwining personal stories as you learn about how to bike to 100. I've given this book to many people and they have thanked me profusely. Bill Katovsky and Roy Wallach make a great tandem.
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 Wide scope but not very specific, May 21, 2010
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I recently got back onto the bike after many years of only the occasional ride and too many nights on the couch. I thought it would be a good idea to get a book that covers basic cycling training to give me a good idea of how I can get myself into good cycling shape for the upcoming summer and to meet my goals of losing at least 20 pounds and being able to ride in at least one cycling event this year of approximately 30-40 miles.
While this seems like a good overall book, I was disappointed in the lack of attention paid to training and nutrition.
For example, the book describes LSD (long slow/steady distance) training, but never actually defines what is meant by a "long, steady/slow distance" ride. A "long ride" to me is probably a lot different than an experienced rider. Am I supposed to stay out there for two hours? Do I measure "long" by the number of miles I ride, or is it just important to keep my heart rate up for an extended period of time?
While the answers to these questions may be second-nature to an experienced cyclist, for someone new (like me) a few specifics would be helpful. Or at least a way to gauge my own level of fitness and develop an appropriate training program.
After this frustrating section, the book then moved right on to Yoga for cyclists. As another reviewer mentioned, this section desperately needs illustrations instead of a text description of certain poses. It's also odd that more attention was paid to yoga than actually cycling.
There's a lot of information in this book, but if you're looking for something specific to training, look elsewhere. While it covers a vast majority of info and has some interesting interviews, it doesn't delve into a whole lot of depth into any of the things I was most curious about. It's part inspiration, a dash of training tips, and (unfortunately) a lot of filler.
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Just 100 ?, April 16, 2010
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Just 100 ?
Life does not come easy and health is not free. What might sound rather obvious is not accepted by most people. They want to live the easy life and do take their health (or lack of thereof) for granted.
Bike for Life - How to ride to 100 by Roy Wallack and Bill Katkowsky does not try to come up with the easy way out like the mountain of books with titles like "perfect body in just 10min per day" lure you into believing. Roy and Bill expect you to kick it hard. But then you get rewarded with an immense level of fitness for many years to come.
There are few sports where no matter how old you are yourself, you might get beaten up by somebody a decade older - and get an inspiration out of it. And I am not talking about those sports where technique and experience are the primary differentiator, like golf, but where strength, fitness and endurance (in combination with the right technique) is the name of the whole game. Riding a bike is such as sport. Somewhere on a long hill you might notice a breeze in your back and suddenly left in the dust by a pair of calves that belong to a 70 year old man. That does not happen to me in the pool. That does not happen to me on the track. But it does on the bike.
Wallack and Katkowsky make the case for riding a bike until you are 100 years old. And they do it with passion, precision and the help of a lot of witnesses. Usually, these books do not tell you anything new, but tell stories to keep you motivated - sometimes better, sometimes (most times ...) useless. This one has it both: it spans the whole spectrum from insight about how to ride a bike, how to ride it in a group, how to ride it in a race to what you need to do to compensate for negative effects of focusing on bike rides alone (lack of impulse, lack of impact on your muscles etc.). Most of the insight is very relevant, meaningful and was often (too often ...) news to me. And I am a rigorous athlete: swimming, cycling or running nearly every day each week, continuously looking at my technique, stretching after each workout. But still the book has excellent ideas and warnings of what to do and what not. The only point to critisize is the lack of graphics or pictures, especially to help you visualize the exercises for stretch and strength.
And then, besides all the deep insight, the stories from famous or not so famous people bring the book to live. The stories about being a great rider, failing badly at highly anticipated events or being brought down by injuries, and then slowly getting back on the bike and retrieve the passion. Or the little stories of how to make the next hill, keep the rear wheel, overcome the headwind. And they do not stop at the sensitive topics that keep some from cycling at all, e.g. the impact on your love life (net: positive).
All these elements are scattered nicely throughout the whole book so one can actually read a chapter each night before going to bed or recapping the "anti-aging game plan" sitting on the sofa when this nasty rain storm prevents you from the bike ride and the falling branches make it dangerous to run on the trail and the lightning closed the pool.
The authors, many interviewees and I truly believe you can stay fit into highest ages. And riding a bike has the potential to be the best sports to keep you motivated until your 100. But what do you do then?
Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky, Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 (Da Capo Press, 2005).
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