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| Andy Pruitt's Complete Medical Guide for Cyclists | 
 enlarge | Author: Andrew L. Pruitt
Creators: Chris Carmichael, Fred Matheny
Publisher: VeloPress
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 76400
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1931382808
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.10270247966
EAN: 9781931382809
ASIN: 1931382808
Publication Date: February 14, 2006
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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| Customer Reviews:
 A mixed bag - fit first, problems aplenty, not "complete" March 11, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
If you want a decent book about bike fit, this might be a book for you. But I have mixed feelings about this book, and overall wouldn't recommend it if you're expecting a complete medical guide for cyclists. Despite its title, this book is not "complete," as claimed. It doesn't touch on a lot of issues for riders, like riding in cold weather, for instance. Arnie Baker's book is more complete ("Bicycling Medicine"). Pruitt's main focus seems to be on bike fit, and here he seems to know what he's talking about, even if his ideal approach is inaccessible to readers of the book (you have to go to his lab and get reflectors put on you and a movie made). The book is very thin. At its best, this means the author is concise, and some of his insights are great. At its worst, the book seems superficial. The section on supplements is most troublesome. Here, the author seems compromised and conflicted. He allows a physician who has a particular view of hormones, supplementation, and athletics to essentially write in the book, and even to push his products. I was a little insulted by this. Overall, this book probably wasn't worth the money for me -- it isn't complete, and has a lot of internal deficiencies.
 If you ride any kind of bicycle, you need this book. January 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Short of going to the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine and getting personally fitted, this is the best way to adjust the settings on your bike. This book takes you through all of the biomechanical factors involved with cycling, and using simple language and techniques, you'll be able to improve your bike fit and possibly eliminate a lot of pain. More importantly, you will prevent long-term physical damage.
A must have.
Excellent January 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A. Pruitt's book is all a cyclist needs to find out how to set up his/her bike, when, how and how much to cycle, how to alleviate physical problems that are inevitably linked with cycling, and how to diet correctly. It even tackles how to manage limb length inequalities.
Pruitt's Medical Guide January 11, 2007
After riding for three years, the book increase my understanding of the variables involved in fitting a bike to each person.
 Excellent Resource but not as complete as I'd like January 9, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have far higher expectations than most when it comes to details, so I may want more than you do... Andy Pruitt does a great job of bringing together the state of the art in terms of basic issues with fit and cycling-related challenges. The book is well written and well organized, and covers just about anything a serious new rider would need to know; I see it as a must-have for anyone in the business of selling bikes so that their customers get good advice in a world where truly awful advice still reigns... in my 20+ years of racing and ultra events, I've seen or felt nearly every issue described in this book, and I would have appreciated the information years ago... where it falls short are in the finer points of fit when it comes to less common challenges or body types-- I'm constantly asked for advice from hard-to-fit cyclists and it would be good to have more detailed science behind some of the information in this book in order to better understand how to make tradeoffs in less-than ideal situations. Another area that would be helpful would be more information on the linkage between bike fit and performance, at least in terms of how small changes can make a big difference when you get into the details... all in all, I count this book a winner because it brings together a lot of information that's out there but not so easily found or digested.
The bottom line-- The average cyclist will definitely benefit from using the information in this book. Every bike shop and bike sales-person shouldn't sleep at night if they don't have at least a basic knowledge of this information. Bike racers absolutely must know these things or they're wasting energy and maybe even doing harm to their bodies out there.
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