The Time-Crunched Cyclist

"Chris Carmichael's newest book, The Time-Crunched Cyclist, is worth a look for anyone with a real life." PezCyclingNews.com

"For those with tight schedules and real life demands, The Time-Crunched Cyclist offers an alternative to hanging up the bike in frustration." DailyPeloton.com

"It's very hard: a) to put this book down and b) not to pick up a useful amount of beneficial knowledge from it." TheWashingMachinePost.net

"With the training plans, nutritional information, case studies, race and ride tips, success stories and more, The Time Crunched Cyclist certainly gave me new hope that I would be able to train well to truly enjoy the sport that I love. If you are, like me, a cyclist with too little free time on your hands, I would definitely recommend that you buy and read this book." BikeWorldNews.com

"A major overhaul from previous editions Very well laid out An easy read and expanded from 262 pages to 430 pagesA good book with sound research and science that is made easy to understand. Any time-crunched cyclist can come up with their own plan to fit their schedule and have fun racing." CrossBikeReview.com

"Carmichael explains superbly in the book how a training program which features shorter but higher intensity training coupled with good recovery periods can deliver spectacular results." Roadcycling.co.nz

Préface
Now powered by the popular Strava social network for athletes, The Time-Crunched Cyclist reveals the fastestand most interactiveway to get fit for road racing, century rides, cyclocross, Gran Fondos, mountain bike events, and multi-day cycling tours.

Auteur

Chris Carmichael was an Olympian and a professional cyclist before beginning his career as a coach, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He has coached elite cyclists since 1990, was recognized as the U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year, and was inducted into the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2003. He served as the men's road coach for the U.S. Olympic Cycling Team during the 1992 Olympic Games, and was the head coach for the U.S. Cycling Team for the 1996 Olympic Games. Carmichael founded Carmichael Training Systems (CTS) in 2000 to make world-class coaching expertise available to everyone. Through Chris's leadership and an unsurpassed education program that develops the highest-trained coaches in the industry, CTS immediately established itself as the premier destination for personal fitness, nutrition, and performance coaching and camps. CTS's proven track record for producing champions continues to attract top amateur and professional athletes, including Ironman® world champions Craig Alexander, Tim DeBoom, and Normann Stadler; Olympic triathlon gold and silver medalist Simon Whitfield; NASCAR drivers Carl Edwards and Bobby Labonte; five-time U.S. national cyclocross champion Katie Compton; and two-time cyclocross national champion Ryan Trebon. In addition, Chris has created more than a dozen training DVDs and authored five books, including The Ultimate Ride (2003), the New York Times bestseller Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness (2004), and 5 Essentials for a Winning Life (2006).

Jim Rutberg is the Media, Marketing, and Editorial Director and a coach for CTS. He has co-authored 8 books on training and sports nutrition: The Time-Crunched Cyclist, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning, The Time-Crunched Triathlete, The Ultimate Ride, Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness, Chris Carmichael's Fitness Cookbook, The Carmichael Training Systems Cyclist's Training Diary, and 5 Essentials for a Winning Life. In addition to books, he has written innumerable blog and magazine articles. His work has appeared in Road Bike Action, Bicycling, Outside, Men's Health, Men's Journal, VeloNews, Inside Triathlon, and more. A graduate of Wake Forest University and a former elite cyclist, Rutberg lives in Colorado Springs with his family.

Texte du rabat

THE FASTEST RIDE TO RACE-WINNING FITNESS

The Time-Crunched Cyclist will put you at the front of the pack in just six hours a week.

That's right: Six hours a week on this revolutionary plan will rebuild your competitive fitness and help you regain race-winning form.

Criteriums, road races, Gran Fondos, gravel grinders, century rides, or the fall cyclocross series-the Time-Crunched Training Program will boost your recovery, rev up race-winning speed, improve power, and help you go the distance.

This new edition includes:

. Integration with Strava tools to track and sharpen your training

. New Gran Fondo, Gravel, and Ultraendurance Mountain Bike plans

. The Time-Crunched diet to shed pounds and improve power-to-weight

. Energy-packed recipes from award-winning chefs Michael Chiarello and Matthew Accarrino

. New guidelines for hydration and stress management

. Race-winning tactics to make the most of your cycling strengths

Capture your best performance in the time you have right now. Let The Time-Crunched Cyclist show you how to develop competitive speed, power, and endurance for top results.

Résumé

The Time-Crunched Cyclist reveals the fastest way to get fit for road racing, century rides, gravel grinders, cyclocross, Gran Fondos, and mountain bike events. With elite cycling coach Chris Carmichael's innovative, time-saving approach, busy cyclists will develop fitness, speed, and power in just 6 hours a week. Now powered by Strava, this updated third edition of The Time-Crunched Cyclist training program taps into the most popular cycling social network to help cyclists get fired up to crush their workouts, one segment at a time.

Through his popular endurance coaching service, Carmichael noticed that many busy cyclists are unable to make performance gains using conventional training methods; they simply don't have enough time to train. So CTS developed a new approachthe Time-Crunched Training Programto help cyclists achieve competitive fitness and power without the impossible time demands of traditional training methods.

The Time-Crunched Cyclist shows cyclists how to build fitness on a realistic schedule by tapping the power of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts. Cyclists learn the science behind this alternative approach to training before performing the CTS field tests to get a baseline reading of their fitness. Nine comprehensive training plans include effective time-crunched workouts, nutrition guidelines, and strength training to develop the speed and endurance for a wide variety of cycling races and events. The new Time-Crunched Training Plans cover:

· New and Experienced plans for criteriums, road races, and cyclocross

· New, Experienced, and Competitive plans for century rides and Gran Fondos

· Gravel racing and ultraendurance mountain biking plans

· Intermediate and Advanced plans for commuters

This new, third edition integrates Strava, the popular ride tracking and analysis program. Powered by Strava, the Time-Crunched program becomes interactive, social, highly motivatingand focuses riders on the training data that matters most. It also adds the Time-Crunched Diet, a sports nutrition approach designed to help riders optimize their power-to-weight ratio with new guidelines on eating behaviors and delicious recipes from chefs Michael Chiarello and Matt Accarrino. A new chapter on hydration and managing heat stress will show athletes simple ways to avoid overheating that lead to better performance.

The Time-Crunched Cyclist can help you capture your best performanceall in the time you have right now.

Contenu

Foreword by Mark Gainey, CEO and Co-Founder of Strava

Introduction

Part I: The Time-Crunched Advantage

1 The New Paradigm for Endurance Training

2 The Science of the Time-Crunched Training Program

3 Terms and Conditions

4 Meas…