Joe Friel is a life-long athlete and has a masters degree in exercise science. He has trained and conferred with amateur and professional endurance athletes from a wide variety of sports since 1980. … Read More about About
Why Ride Inside?
This blog post is excerpted from Ride Inside: The Essential Guide to Get the Most Out of Indoor Cycling, Smart Trainers, Classes, and Apps by Joe Friel and Jim Rutberg, with permission of VeloPress. For a 15% discount go here and use the coupon code rideinside. When you really stop and think about it, there are a […]
Thoughts on Training During the Pandemic
For the past few months I’ve been talking with cycling and triathlon clubs in the US and UK via Zoom about training during the pandemic. With what appears to be another surge starting I’ve tried to help these athletes not only cope but also, hopefully, take advantage of this strange time to prepare for when […]
Muscle Fiber Type and Training
This week Alex Hutchinson tweeted a link to an article he had written for Outside magazine which featured a study that examined the effect of athletes’ muscle fiber types on their proclivity to overreaching (heavy fatigue that precedes overtraining and is accompanied by a decline in performance) when training volume was increased. The 24 male […]
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Coaching Joe coaches only a few road cyclists or triathletes each year. He carefully selects professional and amateur athletes who have high goals relative to their abilities and the potential to … Read More about Services