The Cyclist's Training Bible by Joe Friel

The Cyclist's Training Bible by Joe Friel

TRAIN TO WIN WITH JOE FRIEL

Inside this all-new Cyclist's Training Bible, Joe Friel--cycling's most experienced personal coach--presents the latest discoveries in cycling science, data analysis, daily planning, and skills development to help you create a personal training plan for success. Whether you are training for road races, criteriums, time trials, or gravel races, or you just need to improve your climbing, sprinting, endurance, or recovery, The Cyclist's Training Bible covers it all, including:

- Power Meter Metrics: Put cycling's most advanced science to work during every training session.

- TS-Based Training: Use the Training Stress Score to gauge training load and build a superior training plan.

- Personalized Planning: Create a custom training program to capitalize on your strengths and minimize your limiters.

- Field Tests: Evaluate progress and improve your training focus by performing Functional Threshold Power, Functional Aerobic Capacity, Sprint Power, Time Trial, and Functional Threshold Heart Rate tests.

- Timing Your Peak and Taper: Shed training fatigue while maintaining fitness in the lead-up to your key races.

- Planning a Season: Joe Friel's most advanced and comprehensive tools will help you create a winning daily, monthly, and yearly training plan.

- Strength Training: Develop climbing and sprinting power with targeted exercises on the bike and in the gym.

- Cycling Workouts: Follow detailed workouts to build aerobic endurance, muscular force, speed skill, muscular endurance, anaerobic endurance, and sprint energy.

JOE FRIEL is an internationally recognized expert on endurance training with more than 30 years of personal coaching experience. His revolutionary approach to training and clear instruction have made The Cyclist's Training Bible a world-wide best-seller. Joe is also the author of Fast After 50, The Power Meter Handbook, and The Cyclist's Training Diary. He holds a master's degree in exercise science and is the cofounder of TrainingPeaks.

Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients include elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, and triathletes and duathletes located around the world. He has a masters degree in exercise science, is an Elite-level USA Cycling Coach, and serves on the USA Triathlon Coaching Certification Committee.

Joe is the author of The CompuTrainer Workout Manual, The Cyclist's Training Bible, and The Triathlete's Training Bible. He is a contributing editor to Inside Triathlon and VeloNews and frequently writes feature stories for Performance Conditioning for Cycling. He has written a weekly fitness column for the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper since 1981.

As an age-group competitor, Joe is a Colorado State Masters Triathlon champion, a Rocky Mountain region and Southwest region duathlon age-group champion, and is a perennial USA Triathlon All-American duathlete. A member of several national duathlon teams, Joe is a top five contender in world class events. In addition, he competes in road running and United States Cycling Federation races.

Joe speaks at workshops around the country on training and racing for endurance athletes and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. For information on coaching, speaking, or consulting services, contact him by email at joefriel@ultrafit.com or fax him at 970-204-4221.

From his home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, Joe enjoys mountain biking in the foothills with his wife Joyce, trail running with friends, and riding with his son Dirk, a professional bike racer.