Good, concise book on cycling training for racing?

[Lewis Moon]

I'm presently on Today's Plan, which has been pretty good, although I think they really don't have much of an idea about me as an athlete.
Is there a good CONCISE book out there on cycling training? Not looking for a treatise, just general principals.

[Joxster]

Ride 500 miles a week, keeping the pace at 26mph. Keep doing this till you win the Tour de France.

[FlashUNC]

Originally Posted by Joxster

Ride 500 miles a week, keeping the pace at 26mph. Keep doing this till you win the Tour de France.

You forgot look like this:

[Lewis Moon]

Heh...I'm serious.

[Joxster]

Originally Posted by Lewis Moon

Heh...I'm serious.

So am I

[GParkes]

Not certain of your age/life constraints, but "The Time Crunched Cyclist" and "Fast After 50" are both very good.

[shovelhd]

Training and Racing with a Power Meter version 2.

[Lewis Moon]

Originally Posted by shovelhd

Training and Racing with a Power Meter version 2.

I owned this book at one time, but it REALLY could have been made more concise. After 10 pages I wanted to start drinking heavily...and this is coming from someone who reads, edits and uses scientific journal articles as part of my job. That book is what we call "authorship by the pound".

[shovelhd]

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Cyclists Training Bible? That one, I'll agree with you.

[classtimesailer]

Friel's Cyclist training bible...But the old one pre Power Meter.

OR just get Lemond's book from some time back.

If you want any of lance's or carmicheal's books, PM me. They're yours for shipping.

[Lewis Moon]

Originally Posted by shovelhd

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Cyclists Training Bible? That one, I'll agree with you.

I had the first edition of Training With Power...is the second that different?

[coffeecake]

Originally Posted by Lewis Moon

I had the first edition of Training With Power...is the second that different?

The second edition is different. I think the second ed. is still verbose, but there are some key differences.

* The "sample training plans" in the 2nd ed. are revised and improved.
* The "workout cookbook" in the appendix is improved in specificity and number of workouts.

There are likely other changes but I find the 2nd ed. to be a great improvement.

[Gummee]

I got about a third of the way thru my copy of training with a power meter and put it down. Maybe i'll flip to the end and cook up some training rides for myself for next year. I think it's too late to improve too much by the time CX season ends.

Race, recover, train, recover, race doesn't leave much time for too much more ...except for maybe recover more and drink more beer

M

[deechee]

Well here's a smaller, older paper from Coggan; the innards are pretty similar to the Training with a PowerMeter book

Personally I found the program in the 1st edition easier to follow than the 2nd edition's E1 workout, go to page x, LT2 workout go to page y nonsense. Either way, both books have plenty of sections you can skim through.

[benb]

Heh.. count me as another one that has had a really hard time reading all of Training with a power meter. (it's really valuable though.)

I used Cyclesmart (Adam Hodges Myerson's company) for coaching this year.. it's only for clients but they have a ~60 page book they send out electronically when you start with coaching that's a very good concise manual on training. It takes a lot of the Coggan stuff and boils it down to a very simple level.. same philosophy but it is set up to work even without a power meter and assumes that some of the magic is going to get figured out by someone else. Training with a power meter almost can't decide whether it's audience is cyclists or coaches.