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Performance Cycling : Training for Power, Endurance, and Speed
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By David Morris
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June 17, 2003 |
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176
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From a U.S. Olympic coach, physiologist, and veteran cyclist comes Performance Cycling--the ideal training manual for the several million coaches, cyclists, and endurance athletes of all ages and abilities who want to rev up their RPMs and go for personal gold. With techniques utilized by national champions and Olympians, this unique, cutting-edge guide covers the proven ways to make any body perform for maximum endurance and toughness.
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 Review of Dave Morris' - Performance Cycling : Training for Power, Endurance, and Speed, February 15, 2009
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Dave Morris has written a great book for successful cyclist looking to put the final touches and take their fitness as far as it can go. I have found that his advice is SOLID for ELITE level riders. His experience will more than likely be very helpful to the upper category riders (3 and 2's) looking to upgrade and even coaches. I highly recommend it for these people but would probably tell riders that are considering racing, Cat 5's, Cat 4's and even some Cat 3's that Books from Joe Friel and Tom Chapple more appropriate to get them moving in the right direction.
Coach Peter Cummings
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
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 Not easy to read, September 6, 2008
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I am married, with kids and fulltime job and compete in Masters road cycling - so time efficient training is what I want. I had discovered this book by searching google and following ashwin's blog - finally the book was reprinted and I got a copy - I am a little disappointed in it, I feel the theory of hi intensity training is covered better in both Arnie Bakers 'Hi-intensity cycling' and in Michael Ross's 'Maximum performance for cyclists' - the Ross book has copped some negative comments, and for me his recommended workouts were simply too hard, but it gives the groundwork for time efficient training - both those books I found more useful than Morris's.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Performance Cycling works, June 8, 2006
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This book is easy to read, easy to follow, and best of all, easy to apply. Simple but effective workout plans will improve anyone's level of mental and physical performance on the bike.
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All I can say is that the program worked for me...with some modification., June 6, 2006
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This book was a gift from my wife for Christmas 2003. I had signed up to go to the Tour de France in July with a Aussie tour group. I had heard from others from previous trips the daily rides of 70 to 120 miles always had an ultra-competitive group of Cat 1 and 2 riders. My goal was to time trial Alpe d'Huez and be able to hammer up some of the steeper climbs with the really good riders and ride 1100 miles in 10 days. When I received this book I had been doing triathlons for about four years...after cycling on and off since college. My old routine was go long on the weekends and during the work week to do a day of intervals with a day off followed by a 2 hour tempo ride followed by another day off.
This author advocates doing a big block of intensity followed by several days off which was different for me.
I did his program for the "stage race rider" and blocked high intensity days on Thu and Fri followed by a long 6 to 8 hour ride (much longer than he had in his program) on Saturday and then another 3 hours on Sunday at easy pace. Mon-Wed were off days or easy spinning.
At first this was very difficult! The very first weekend, I felt wiped out by Sunday (after 4 hard days in a row) but took three days off the bike and on the next thursday I felt really strong. I repeated the program the next week...same feeling by Sunday..kind of wiped out and wondering if I was going to burn out (which is a concern with this program)...three days of easy spinning followed. Well, on Thursday (two and half weeks into program) I was a animal on my interval ride. Holding 29 mph for about 4 minutes before poopin out. I didn't have a power meter running but it was on the flats with no wind. Some guys can do that for an hour - I'm not one of them. But before this program I couldn't come close to doing that. So I started to see results after a few weeks.
By the time the Tour de France came around I was as strong as I've ever been on a bike. Being a Cat 5 rider I was now doing training rides with Cat 3's and they were telling me "wow, you're really hammering today...way to keep up with us." I could never keep up with this group in years past.
Why the success? Two things. I think the back to back intensity that the author advocates is KEY and ONLY if you allow enough rest after. I would almost always bounce back from my three off days with increased power. The second thing is the modification to my weekend rides. I agree with some of the reviewers that the mileage can seem scant compared to previous training (I was doing about 800 miles per month before this book). What I did is shorten my weekday workouts per the author's program...but kept some really long LSD rides on the weekend. So I would be riding for only 1.5 hours on Thu and another 1.5 hours on Friday followed by a 120 mile hilly 8 hour ride on Sunday (thanks to my wife for the hall pass!) and another three hours on Sunday. That single Saturday LSD ride built up a lot of endurance for me that seemed to last. I rode 100 miles almost every day for 10 days in France without problem....and felt amazing time trialing up Alpe d'Huez. That summer was the best cycling shape I've ever been in and I had so much power compared to previous years.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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A training program that makes sense., August 4, 2004
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I found this book very directly and succinctly taught me what I need to know to become a better cyclist. The concepts that David Morris uses in this book should increase your understanding of what it takes to be a stronger, faster cyclist -and isn't that the reason why a bike racer or a wanna-be racer buys this kind of book?
The training program in this book is fairly straightforward and easy to understand. The program does not involve too many training cycles with a lot of different goals to reach within those cycles. The program Morris outlines is succinct and based on what I see as a logical goal. That means that knowing what you are going to do today and next week in the gym, on a trainer or on your bike is relatively easy to keep in mind. The actual schedule of work involved is hard to very hard but as the author states you adapt his program to meet your own requirements and because of its relative simplicity that is not too difficult to do.
I recommend this book for those cyclists who are seeking a practical training program to become a more powerful cyclist.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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