Setting Your Goals & Resolutions for 2013

Goals should be realistic. If you have been having trouble finishing rides or races with the group, setting a goal to place in the top five of a race you have never finished with the group would probably be too aggressive at this point in time. There are goals for every level of rider - you just have think about them.

Exeter University Set to Become Centre Of Excellence for Cycling

Alongside the race team, CMI are very proud to announce that it will manage an exciting new project, University of Exeter Elite Cycling, an extension of the CMI rider development programme. It is the intention of both CMI and The University to establish Exeter as the primary destination for aspiring young undergraduates with real cycling talent. The support structure and knowledge is in place at the University, and combined with the CMI management and senior rider experience, this will offer a unique pathway to an international race team. It is hoped that with this partnership, CMI and the University can develop an increased pool of talent that offers young riders a training and race structure that is the best currently available in the UK.

Why Do I get Sick at Christmas?

For most of us holidays and time off are a time to recharge our batteries and chill out. For some people though, as soon as they stop work and try to relax they get ill.

Are you one of those people lying on a golden beach, blue waves lapping at your feet with a splitting headache? Or have you missed Christmas lunch as you are in bed with flu?

People who are never sick in their working week come down with headaches, colds, sickness or fevers as soon as they leave the everyday stresses and strains behind.

28 Top Training Tips

1. Choose your races carefully
2. Always check with work / family / partner and diary before entering events

Why are my results disappointing?

You’ve been training hard all winter, get to your first month of racing and feel as though you haven’t improved and in fact your legs feel empty and worse than last season, and can’t work out why so you ask your coach what’s gone wrong!

Want to increase aerodynamics, efficiency and power output? The answer might just be under your skin...

Let’s face it, we work hard in our training, we look after ourselves, follow the right diet, get all the best gear – and all to gain that extra few percent. If I were to tell you that we’ve been ignoring the largest element of the body - our connective tissue, or ‘fascia’....

Posture and Respiratory Performance in Cycling

Of all of the requirements to produce energy for cycling nothing is of greater importance than oxygen. Our ability to take in optimal amounts from the air and use this through respiratory exchange essentially provides the gas that runs our cycling engine.

Why Train with Power?

Power Meters and Power Training maximise training time and intensity. Here at Koolstofcoaching we can help you become more powerful, faster and fitter.

Breathing Strong in the Saddle – The quickest and easiest way to enhance performance

Over the past decade, a quiet revolution has taken place in sports training. Once viewed with scepticism, breathing muscle training is now seen as one of the “quickest and easiest” routes to improve performance. Professor Alison McConnell, the author of “Breathe Strong, Perform Better”, is the scientist at the heart of this revolution, here she explains why a little heavy breathing is just what the doctor ordered.

The Winter Training Bike

The humble winter training bike - generally unloved, abused and rarely exposed to anything other than wet, salty filth, it is none the less, crucial to winter training success.