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| Weight Training for Cyclists: The Ultimate Training Series from VeloPress (The Ultimate Training Series from Velopress, 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Schmitz & Doyle
Publisher: VeloPress
Category: Book
Buy New: $31.98
New (3) Used (7) from $22.71
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 359227
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1884737439
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.711
EAN: 9781884737435
ASIN: 1884737439
Publication Date: June 26, 1998
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Condition: New
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| Customer Reviews:
 Did you play the clarinet in HS?, then this book is for you!! April 8, 2006
13 out of 32 found this review helpful
I purchased this book in an attempt to improve my hill climbing, and endurance while riding. I was highly disappointed when this book arrived on my doorstep when I started reading through it. Don't be fooled by the exceprts you can read on Amazon, this book is meant for people who NEVER in their lives have seen the inside of a gym, or guys who have been on the Varisty Band Squad throughout High School and College, and were trying to get in shape for the prom because they were trying to bang the Football Captain's girlfriend while he was away winning the State Championships for their school. The first few tips on the "Basics of Weight Training" chapter (consists of 30 pages) starts out with really insightful tips such as : Choosing a Facility, (Is it in a convenient location?), Is the facility clean and well laid out?, Does it have a knowledgeable, educated staff?, What are the hours of operation?. Well thank God the authors added these questions to my list, because I was looking for a public gym in the least convenient location, with dirty machines and idiotic employees which isn't open when I am available to work out. (Can you smell my sarcasm?, good, because I'm laying it on pretty thick)
It gets better when they show pictures of things that are very hard to figure out such as a bench, a rack of free weights, and a Weight Tree (USed to store barbell plates...I actually thought they were pedal trees, to hang my old Shimanos on))
Seriously, save your money, buy The Cyclists Traing Bible, and you will learn more about cycling fitness in the first few sentences than you will in this book...
I am under the assumption that people who have taken an interest in cycling, are not the 800 pound people you see on the news ready to die of morbid obestity, who need to get the walls in their apartment buildings ripped down, and lifted off their couch by a crane with ten empty bags of Doritos resting on their bloated stomachs. Buy another book, or just buy a Cycle Ops trainer, throw it in your basement and buy a CTS Training video. You'll get much more out of it.
well presented September 25, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found the advice to be well presented and thought out. I am a non professional cyclist and some of it was too detailed and geared to a racing season approach. Overall though it was informative and interesting, with some valuable tips about how to avoid injury that i had not encountered.
 Don't waste your time with this book August 31, 2005
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book only gives the absolute bare minimum of training guidelines. It will give you a decent idea of what exercises to do, and a tiny bit of the reasons why to do them, but that is all. The authors suggest doing some very simple exercises like the bench press, for which they show photos. For the very complex, and somewhat dangerous, plyometric and power development exercises, they give almost no detail on how to do the exercise. Why would they show photos of simple exercises that everyone knows how to do, and then just skim over the complex ones that they suggest are the most important exercises??
 Super information! August 1, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Every cyclist wants to get better. I needed to gain strength so I could climb and keep up with the pack. Off the bike training following the guidelines laid out in this book helped me get the extra edge that more miles were not going to give me. I really got into the program and it paid off big!
Loved it! July 29, 2003
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have always read in bike magazines that the way to improve your strength on the bike you need to lift weights. Problem is, I don't know the right way to do it! This book gave me all of the knowledge I needed to design a training program and perform the exercises correctly and safely. I'm already seeing the benefits!
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