At Wattbike, we love how cycling can cross into so many aspects of life. Whether you are training for competition or grabbing a coffee on a Sunday club ride, cycling opens up a host of opportunities.
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In the final two weeks before an event there is little extra training you can do to improve your fitness, instead the focus is on being as fresh and prepared for race day as you can be. If you have been
Are you ready to shift up a gear to take on a longer, harder challenge? Here’s five questions you need to ask yourself first: What is your goal? If you’ve already hit your early season targets and
Whether it’s an impromptu sprint during the local club ride or a serious attack during a criterium race, the breakaway is a key tactic used by amateur and elite cyclists alike. If you are looking
If you have completed a few sportives already this year, you might be thinking about how to step up your game and challenge yourself even further. That’s where multi day rides come in. Multi-day events,
Time trials are ridden at a hard, but sustainable pace. To improve your physical performance, you need to increase the power you can sustain. A well-paced time trial is a skill that can be learnt but
Sprint training benefits nearly every type of rider. Even if your goal is a hundred mile sportive and you are very unlikely to ever find yourself sprinting for a finish line there are still clear reasons
Functional Threshold Power, or FTP, is a serious stat bandied about by many cyclists. If you’ve heard of FTP but aren’t sure why it is important or how to measure it, follow our simple guide to discover
Doing a century ride is very much a milestone distance, whether it is your first 100 mile bike ride of the year or your first ever it can be daunting, but with the right mental and physical preparation
In January, many cyclists make the New Year's resolution to lose a few pounds and get to the perfect race weight by Spring. But, come February, many of them have fallen off the wagon. If you’re guilty
What is endurance? In the simplest possible terms, it is your ability to ‘last the distance’ in your chosen event. Track pursuit riders need endurance for their sub-5-minute race, as much as a hundred-mile
Winter is traditionally the time of year that cyclist’s work on their endurance with long, slow rides. After a month of recovery at the end of the season, followed by a month of half-hearted riding
High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT for short, is a training method which combines short bursts of high intensity, with rest periods in between. HIIT has become a popular in recent years, with the
Sometimes to achieve the fitness progression you are looking for you will need to stop and pause, or even go backwards in your training, before you can accelerate ahead again. When we start training
If you want to start a debate in the café post-ride ask a group of bike riders this simple question, “If Chris Hoy and Mark Cavendish were in the same race, who would win the sprint?” Simple on the