Helen Russell kindly gave us an interview after a hard session with her coach, our very own Eddie Fletcher, and gave us an insight into life as an Age Group Duathlete/Triathlete. Helen has been progressing fantastically well and does much of her training on a Wattbike. Last year she won the 2011 ITU Sprint AG Duathlon World Championship… Read full post
Sometimes we need just that extra bit of motivation to do a Wattbike session so last night I tried out one of the offerings from Three Legs Cycling, which features none other than World Champion Mark Cavendish. Naturally, I decided on the 'Sprinting' DVD, which is an hour's session including a warm-up and cool down. The warm-up involved… Read full post
I went over to see Lee Dixon a few weeks ago to see how he was getting on with his training - Lee used to play football for Arsenal and England and can now be seen every weekend on BBC's Football Focus and Match of the Day 2. It's fairly obvious that Lee has been bitten by the cycling bug quite badly - it gets us all eventually, right? He's… Read full post
We recently caught up with Loughbrough Universty triathlete, Josh Cardwell, who has been training hard on a Watttbike over the winter. First up, we asked him how his winter training had changed compared to last year, now that he has a Wattbike, he told us, :"Last January I was fortunate enough to go to Fuerteventura for two weeks, which meant I… Read full post
‘How’s your holiday going?’ - it’s a question I’ve been asked a dozen times over the last week. I’ve been in Mallorca at the HotChillee Rendezvous at Stephen Roche Cycling Camp. I did see sun, sea and sand – I also saw the back of somebody’s wheel for much of the time I was going uphill on a bike… Read full post
Today on the blog we hear from Non Stanford, an elite triathlete who recently finished 10th at the 2012 Cape Town ITU Sprint Triathlon African Cup. She's been training on a Wattbike during the cold UK winter and sent us this rather amusing but honest report - a great read:- ---------------- So I’m sitting here, on my sofa,… Read full post
Last week we had the guys from Exertrain up to Wattbike HQ in Nottingham. If you're not familair with the name, Exertrain are a UK manufacturer and supplier of the highest quality sports and fitness training equipment, delivering bespoke design and equipment supply for facilities wanting to provide the very best in sporting excellence. And… Read full post
We recently invited the HotChillee Ride Captains up to the Wattbike Science Lab to get to know the Wattbike a little better and to help them focus their training for both The London-Paris and Alpine Challenge. The Ride Captains role is to help riders both before and during these two great events to get the most of out of their experience, so it… Read full post
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I'm now 4 weeks into the London-Paris Training Plan and I'm starting to notice a few changes. Christmas was a time of eating, sleeping, eating, sleeping, repeat ad nauseam. This would have been fine had it only lasted a week, but I'd also done the same thing when I took off to somewhere a little warmer the week before Christmas.… Read full post
Many of you involved in sport will recognise the name of Peter Keen as Director of Performance at UK Sport, the body which ensures that investment in sport in the UK is targeted at the right areas to deliver winners at the highest level; essentially we're talking about creating and supporting World and Olympic champions. He is also credited as the… Read full post