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Features, Learn, Racing, stretching, Training - April 28, 2020

7 mobility exercises to improve your cycling performance

In this post we look at how you can improve your cycling performance with seven key mobility exercises. You’ll find that these will also reduce any ‘working from home’ aches and pains and improve the general performance of your muscular system. First, what is mobility? The dictionary definition will give you ‘the ability to move …

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core strength, Features, Learn, Training - April 16, 2020

7 strength exercises you can do at home to improve your cycling

Hopefully you’ve been able to ride your bike during this difficult time, either indoors or out. If the gym was an integral part of your training programme however, I guess that’s no longer an option. Here then are a select few home strength training exercises which don’t require any equipment, and that will benefit your …

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Features, Learn, Technique, Training - March 29, 2020

Why you should be pedaling with one leg (sometimes)

A video posted to Chris Froome’s Twitter account in July 2019 shows him sat atop his Pinarello, pedaling away on a stationary trainer. Just six weeks after his horrific crash while pre-riding Stage 4 of this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné, Froome was back on the bike. But not all of him; only his left leg. …

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