We can all agree that recovery is crucial for athletic training. Faster recovery allows a more consistent level of training while minimizing risk of injury, illness, or over-training state. The use of compression garments have been popularized over the last four years. The top manufacturer of compression garments is CEP. CEP is a branch of [...]
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Massage is essential after hard training blocks. However, it’s expensive and personally after a long ride, I don’t want to leave my couch. Obviously, I can’t afford home visits if I can barely afford to pay my $150 rent—I live in the bike room. It’s luxurious. Recently, I discovered this device called Podium Legs, which [...]
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To maximize my training as a pro cyclist, I recently migrated to warm Tucson to train because the weather is predictable (warm), the cycling community is awesome (you can get your butt kicked any day you choose), and the riding is great. With this move, however, I had to give up many things dear to [...]
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Chamois cream is one of the last things cyclists talk about, but this “area” definitely needs preventative care. Get a good chamois cream and use it, on your chamois and on yourself, every time, because you don’t want to be that person wiggling and shifting on your saddle every 30 seconds on a group ride. (We’re all laughing [...]
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OK. So, I used to hate trainers. Really, truly. I hated being in one spot for a long time. It would hurt my girl parts, my hip, everything. I couldn’t get comfortable. When I lived in Seattle, I would have rather ridden in the rain and dark for 4 hours than ride the trainer for [...]
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Picky Bars are the brain children of endurance wunderkinds Lauren Fleshman, Jesse Thomas, and Stephanie Rothstein. These yummy treats come in gluten-free and dairy-free varieties. An important aspect of this nutrition bar is the 4:1 ratio of carbohydrates to protein. Most of these bars are around 200 calories and have roughly 6g fat, 28g carbohydrate [...]
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My favorite, most reliable seatpost is the Thompson Elite. The Thomson Elite has several valuable features. The most important feature to me is the ease of saddle tilt adjustment or fine tuning of saddle tilt. The tilt range goes from minus 5° to plus 29°. The Thomson Elite seatpost is made from series 7000 aluminum. [...]
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