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Beschreibung

With the help of medical experts, leading coaches, ex-professionals, and pro-team doctors, cycling biomechanics pioneer Phil Cavell produces a practical guide for mature cyclists who want to stay healthy, avoid injury, and maximize their achievement levels.

Midlife Cyclist offers a gold standard road-map for the mature cyclist who aims to train, perform and even race at the highest possible level. Cycling has seen a participation uplift unprecedented in any sport, especially in the 40, 50 and 60-year-old age groups. These athletes are the first statistically significant cohort to maintain, or even begin, genuine athletic performance beyond middle-age. But, just because we can continue to tune the engine into old age, does that mean that we should? And, what do these training efforts do to the aging human chassis? This book answers those questions and offers a guide to those elongating their performance window.

Using case studies and expert contributions from all aspects of the sport, Midlife Cyclist looks at cycling as an aging person's exercise of choice, the physical implications of hard training, and the use of sport medication and specific training in combating them. It also considers the age-specific questions raised, including what happens to performance as we mature? Will the bike specifications alter as our bodies change? Should we refine our riding technique and how do we best deploy the psychological advantages of being older riders?

With the help of medical experts, leading coaches, ex-professionals, and pro-team doctors, cycling biomechanics pioneer Phil Cavell produces a practical guide for mature cyclists who want to stay healthy, avoid injury, and maximize their achievement levels.

Midlife Cyclist offers a gold standard road-map for the mature cyclist who aims to train, perform and even race at the highest possible level. Cycling has seen a participation uplift unprecedented in any sport, especially in the 40, 50 and 60-year-old age groups. These athletes are the first statistically significant cohort to maintain, or even begin, genuine athletic performance beyond middle-age. But, just because we can continue to tune the engine into old age, does that mean that we should? And, what do these training efforts do to the aging human chassis? This book answers those questions and offers a guide to those elongating their performance window.

Using case studies and expert contributions from all aspects of the sport, Midlife Cyclist looks at cycling as an aging person's exercise of choice, the physical implications of hard training, and the use of sport medication and specific training in combating them. It also considers the age-specific questions raised, including what happens to performance as we mature? Will the bike specifications alter as our bodies change? Should we refine our riding technique and how do we best deploy the psychological advantages of being older riders?

Über den Autor
Phil Cavell
Zusammenfassung
The book will feature contributions from many experts across the health and cycling worlds, including: consultant cardiologist and elite bike racer, Dr Nigel Stephens; consultant in sport and exercise medicine, Sanjay Sharma; Professor of Clinical Cardiology and Medical Dietitian and elite racer Darren Barclay, plus many others.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

Introduction
1 The Ageing Cyclist - Growing Old Disgracefully
2 It Is About the Bike
3 Will I Die?
4 Midlife Performance - Too Late For Speed?
5 Bikes, Bike Fit and Biomechanics
6 Bike, What Bike?
7 Food for Sport
8 The Mindful Cyclist

Epilogue
Midlife Cyclists: Case Studies

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Gesundheit
Thema: Körperpflege
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472961389
ISBN-10: 1472961382
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cavell, Phil
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 231 x 148 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Phil Cavell
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,44 kg
Artikel-ID: 118016341

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