Part Two of our video interview with Rebecca Romero features her thoughts on training on a Wattbike. As a former rower, Rebecca was used to a life of work on ergometers and this continued through her time with British Cycling, who use Wattbikes for training and testing of their elite athletes. Rebecca gives us the lowdown on the kind of Wattbike… Read full post
A couple of weeks ago I headed down to see 2008 Olympic Gold medalist Rebecca Romero. For those who don't know, Rebecca is one of those very rare people who have won Olympic medals in two different Olympic Games AND in two different sports. In 2004 at the Athens Games she took silver in the quadruple sculls rowing event then went on… Read full post
Mark Shaw from Les-Stables came up to the Wattbike Science Lab recently to get some advanced training with our Sport Scientist, Eddie Fletcher. Mark had known about the Wattbike for some time and summed up one of his main reasons for adding the Wattbike to his roster of services on offer at Les-Stables as: "If it's good enough for British Cycling… Read full post
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
At the start of the month we took a van loan of Wattbikes to the 2012 Triathlon Show at Sandown Park Racecourse in Surrey, to say we were all over the Show is an understatement. If I rattled off the list of places you could sit on a Wattbike they'd include the 220 Triathlon magazine subscribers lounge, the Fit Brands Fashion Show, the PowerBar… 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
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
When you're 6 feet and 7 inches tall it's not that easy to find fitness equipment that can handle the sheer size of your body and with an inside leg measurement of 37 inches, Steve Bainbridge has found just a solution to help him train for triathlons in the Wattbike. Steve is a former rugby union player, representing both the British and Irish… Read full post
As 2011 came to a close we managed to grab a few minutes with Vivelo–Inverse CyClaim RT and GB Age Group triathlete James Fletcher to hear about how his 2011 season had gone and what his plans were for 2012. He also gave us some insight into how he is structuring his training on the Wattbike and combining that with outdoor road cycling sessions.… Read full post
It was a pleasure to have John Brame and Marsha El Hage of RG Active coaching up to the Wattbike Science Lab recently, they'd made the trip up from London to understand how they could deliver an even better training experience for their clients, through using the Wattbike. With a very impressive background in competition and coaching, the… Read full post