Are you planning a cycling holiday somewhere warm and mountainous? Cycling in harsh conditions like high altitude and heat feels a lot harder at first. Your Garmin can help you understand how quickly your body adapts to these environmental factors. Let’s review how to read…
Measuring heart rate variability (HRV) can help you learn when to recover, when to train, and how to stay healthy. There are many external and internal factors that influence HRV, which can make tracking it difficult. Let’s go over the best practices of tracking HRV…
As you would expect, cycling in winter requires different fuel for your body than when the weather is more temperate. For starters, you need more calories and less fluid, because you’ll be perspiring less, and therefore losing less water, and you’ll be working harder, because…
Despite the numerous and varied health benefits, spending hours and hours cycling can leave your body in need of a little TLC. So, we spoke to Lucy Poole, aka The Cycling Physio, to get her advice on the best way to recover from a ride.…