Cycletherapy Training Class Week #3

Cycletherapy Training Class Week #3

This is the training progression, and the play list, for this week’s class.  The progression is listed in the comments section, and feel free to pick your own music to motivate you through.  The total work load time - not including the warm up -  is listed in the...

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Cycletherapy Training Class Week #2

Cycletherapy Training Class Week #2

This is the training progression, and the play list, for this week’s class.  The progression is listed in the comments section, and feel free to pick your own music to motivate you through.  The total work load time - not including the warm up -  is listed in the...

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Kinetic Fitness Coaching 2017 USA Cycling Club Status & Team Rosters

Kinetic Fitness Coaching 2017 USA Cycling Club Status & Team Rosters

I just recently renewed the Kinetic Fitness Coaching Club with USA Cycling for 2017. For the past 3 years I have had the club open as an option for riders I coach whom would like to have a club affiliation for their license. Within the club structure I also...

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Weekly Feedback

Weekly Feedback

Weekly feedback is what I consider to be the most valuable tool for assessing and understanding how an athlete's week went. I rely heavily upon it to develop an athlete's next program, and if I do not have it I am often left wondering how a specific, and important, workout...

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Changing Up The Routine

Changing Up The Routine

I recently posted a ride I did on Strada, and this is one of the comments I received about the ride, "This is a change from the Hess routine." The ride I did consisted of riding my mountain bike out to Highland Recreation area, completing the A, B, C...

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Cycletherapy Indoor Spin Class Winter 2016 – 2017

Cycletherapy Indoor Spin Class Winter 2016 – 2017

We are going to be back at it indoors at Cycletherapy starting in December 2016, and rolling all of the way through February 2017! For those of you who have been out before, we welcome you back. And for those who have not given it a try please come...

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Watching Dan Sprint

Watching Dan Sprint

One of the things I enjoy most about this time of the year is the the carefree riding that I can experience. There are not any races in my near future so there are not any intervals that need to be done, or tapers that have to be undertaken....

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Willing Yourself To Win

Willing Yourself To Win

I am in the unique position of seeing a lot of power data from athletes.  When you dive in and examine the intricacies, you see that each athlete has a unique power profile. You may see that Athlete A is fantastic at 30 second efforts, and that Athlete B...

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USA Cycling National Championships

USA Cycling National Championships

I wanted to point out a couple of the results that athletes I work with attained over the past few weekends. On May 27th Mike G. was in Winston-Salem for the Master's Time Trial National championships. Despite a tough Winter / Spring with fighting several colds and flus, we...

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Getting Back Up To Speed

Getting Back Up To Speed

The big news from today is that the Castelli clothing order has arrived! I have it sorted, and am in the process of distribution. It all looks super, and I hope that everyone is as happy with it as I am. If you are interested in any kit I...

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