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Bike For Life:

How to Ride to 100
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Da Capo Press, 2005 - Sports & Recreation - 344 pages
Cycling is one of the most popular and fastest growing activities in the nation?today more than 56 million recreational cyclists bike regularly in the United States. Now leading cycling journalists Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky have assembled into one essential resource everything cyclists needs to know to bike for a lifetime. These experts present groundbreaking information on medical research, training techniques, nutrition, and technology and equipment trends that impact the sport at every level. They also assess the risks and provide informative solutions to many bike-related conditions that have been overlooked, sensationalized, or are just emerging, including impotence, osteoporosis, weakened immune systems, sore backs, depression, and even fractured relationships. Also featured are a dozen in-depth interviews with cycling legends, such as Gary Fisher, Ned Overend, John Howard, Missy Giove, Eddie B, and Marla Steb. This authoritative guide to getting the most out of your bike riding will appeal to cycling enthusiasts of all ages and abilities, and is a must-read for everyone who loves to get on a bike to compete, to keep fit and promote longevity, for fun, or simply to get from point A to point B.
  

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Review: Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100

User Review  - Lisa - Goodreads

This is an unusual book in that it's not about the training plan on GETTING to 100 miles in the saddle, but more of a companion book to cover a number of other topics: saddle sores, how to crash ... Read full review

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User Review  - Jack - Goodreads

Good book, lots of new and useful info. Read full review

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Contents

Training Building a bigger engine with goalsetting Periodization weight lifting and cyclingspecific yoga
Rich McInnes and the Carmichael Plan
Dan Crain goes from 0 to 3100 miles a month
Wendy Skean and the 50year dream
Technique Skills to get you there faster safer and in style
12 easy ways to lose weightand fly up the hills
The Great Indoors How to use indoor spin classes to be a better outdoor rider
Its ladiesonly at Audreys orthodox spin sessions
How to deslump your posture with the Symmetry plan
13 steps to a bulletproof back
Phil Curry goes straight at 63
Cycling and Osteoporosis How to fight the scaryand untilnow unknownlink between biking and bone thinning
Tammy Jacques is boning up
16 steps to building better bones
Motivation and Mental Training Success through positive thinking visualization breath control training journals creative riding and time management
Cycling Psychosis Cycling can help stave off depressionor cause it Heres how to balance the sports psychological highs and lows

Indoor spinbike alternatives
Meals on Wheels The strategy and science of highoctane food and drink
Hyponatremia and the risk of going light on electrolytes
The Ten Commandments of Cooking
How to Avoid That Deficit
The AntiAging Game Plan Want to stay young and injuryfree at 40 60 or 80? Hint Do more than ride
How to strengthtrain to raise human growth hormone production
Bob Andersons top ten stretches for longevity
Vic Copeland the worlds greatest over35 racer
Bicycle Sex Cycling and impotence easy solutions to an unhard problem
12 Antinumbness tips for men and women
Women cyclists studied for risk of sexual dysfunction
Bike Fit The Foundation Proper setup for comfort power and injury prevention
A new fit and new bike supercharged Long Islands Javier Saralegui
Prehab Prevention and rehabilitation of cyclings two biggest injuries cyclists knee and bikers back
Good fit strengthenstretch butt power and G C
Marco Pantanis emotional meltdown
Ironman not Prozac for Sandy Gresko
Hypnosis and other alternative antidepression therapies
Rolling Relationships Rules for reconciling significant cycling and significant others
The foolproof 5 to 1 ratio
A cyclists 17 relationship responsibilities
Bribery Le Tour and Killer Sex in San Diego
Tandem Family Affair in Irvine
Twentyfour hours of love in Phoenix
Lessons from the tough love of triathlon relationships
How to Survive Staying safe amid mountain lions bikejackers lightning storms careless drivers poison oak rabid dogs and other unexpected dangers
The Journey Centuries Touring Hillclimb challenges 24hour relays Crossstate rides With its immense variety cycling offers motivation for everyone
How to get the most out of your coasttocoast
The primal need of being on a cycling team
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About the author (2005)

Roy M. Wallack, a longtime multisport athlete, was formerly an editor at "Triathlete Magazine", and wrote a sporting gear column for the "Los Angeles Times". He is the author of "The Traveling Cyclist" and "Bike for Life".

Bill Katovsky, founder of "Tri-Athlete Magazine", has completed the Hawaii Ironman twice and is coauthor of "Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq", which won Harvard s Goldsmith Book Prize; and editor of "1,001 Pearls of Runners' Wisdom: Advice and Inspiration for the Open Road", as well as co-founder of the Natural Running Center.

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TitleBike For Life: How to Ride to 100
AuthorsRoy M. Wallack, Bill Katovsky
PublisherDa Capo Press, 2005
ISBN1569244510, 9781569244517
Length344 pages
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Health & Fitness / Exercise
Health & Fitness / Safety
Sports & Recreation / Cycling
  
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