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
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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
With the infamous classics season underway and some of the sport’s toughest, most unforgiving courses in the calendar still to come, how has Wattbike Ambassador Lizzie Deignan fared through a long winter
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
If you are riding one of the cobbled classic sportives or taking part in one of the many gravel rides that are springing up you will need to work on your position, technique and leg strength to counteract
Tips you can take from Strade Bianche Wet, narrow roads and a nervous, tightly packed peloton; it’s what gives the spring classics their unrivalled appeal and a never-ending series of surprising moments
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
Track is one of the most controlled environments for bike racing. With no change in terrain, no head winds or uneven road surfaces to contend with equipment, riding position and products can be finely
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