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11 Strategies for Preventing Arm Pump

Whether a beginner or a veteran trail slayer, you have or will likely experience arm pump. Not to be confused with the celebratory gesture–fist pump–made famous by a certain club-going group in New Jersey, arm pump is the undesirable, painful, numbing effects of repetitive jolts transmitted from the trail to your arms, rendering them useless. Some riders …

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5 Key Tips to Reducing Recovery Times After Breaking a Bone

So you did what I did. That or you just have a morbid fascination with broken body parts. Breaking a bone really sucks. It impacts a rider in so many ways. For one thing, your regular routine is ruined. Your Strava times are going to suck when you get back, and you are going to …

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Video: Top 10 Ways to Improve Your MTB Fitness

Mountain biking is so good that you don’t even need to call it training…

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The Importance of Positive Self Talk When Mountain Biking

I think Henry Ford said it best: “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t. You’re right.” Self talk has a positive or negative effect on your mountain biking performance and your ability to handle technical aspects of a trail or race course. If you roll up to every obstacle on the trail and think, …

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8 Yoga Poses for Mountain Bikers

Over the past couple of years, I’ve begun to notice that I can no longer beat my body up and expect no consequences. Like it or not, it’s a part of getting older. After a hard ride, I really feel it the next day: my back hurts, my hips get tight, my shoulders get sore. …

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