Health, Fitness and Training

by Portland Velo's own Health & Fitness Guru Warm-up. Cool-Down. Concepts fixed in the folklore of cycling. And concepts considered, oh, let's say "quaint" by way too many Velo-ites, particularly on the Saturday club ride where Full Frontal Assault, 74-Gun Broadside, Drop the New Guy, and No Quarter are more the operative terms...   Read More...

Rewind. Stop. Play. NEVER RIDE HARD ON TIRED LEGS. NEVER. EVER. This absolute core principle of intelligent training is repeated mantra-like by most of us. And all too often ignored. But do so at your peril, be you race teamer or serious fitness rider. Who says? Well, everyone. Including Scott Saifer, the Head Coach at Wenzel Coaching, a nationwide...   Read More...

Recent research suggests that the answer could be “Yes”. At worst, maaaaay-be. So, let’s see what we have here. Well, for starters, the pessimistic stuff: All kinds of scientific studies have long established that for endurance sports, of which cycling is one, once middle age is reached, the Great Decline begins. Need proof? Here you go. A shiny new...   Read More...

by our mystery "Fit Bit" author - to be revealed in next month's VeloCITY. Or not. Wait and see. Before I became a cyclist, I was a competitive long distance runner for 11 years, and posted some respectable times. I trained hard, but I also trained smart. Which meant NOT training hard every day. And when it came to coming up with the best...   Read More...

It's responsible for the production of 95% off all the human body's energy requirements. Got your attention? Read on. It's main job is firing up the little one-per-cell energy-producing furnaces called mitochondria that produce energy in muscle cells. It, like damn near everything else, decreases as we age. Levels begin to drop after——Yikes...   Read More...