Synopses & Reviews
Do You Want to Ride to 100and#151;and Beyond?BIKE FOR LIFE!
Now with training plans, worldwide adventures, and more than 200 photos
Ride a century when you turn a century: that was the promise Bike for Life offered when it was first published. A decade later, this blueprint for using cycling to achieve exceptional longevity, fitness, and overall well-being has helped tens of thousands of cyclists to ride longer and stronger. Now, nationally-known fitness journalist and lifelong endurance road and mountain biker Roy M. Wallack builds upon his comprehensive Bike for Life plan with even more practical tips and strategies to keep you riding to 100and#151;and beyond.
Fully updated, revised, and illustrated, Bike for Life features:
- Cutting-edge workout strategies for achieving best-ever fitness at any age
- Science-based 8- and 16-week Century training schedules
- A radical new workout method that'll make you fly up the hills
- An anti-aging plan to revive muscularity, strength, and reaction time
- An exclusive 10-step Yoga for Cyclists routine
- Strategies to fix "cyclist's knee" and "biker's back"
- Advice on avoiding cycling-related impotence and osteoporosis
- Ways to survive mountain lions, bike-jackers, poison ivy, and headwinds
- Handling skills and bike-fit advice from famous coaches
- Tips on staying motivated with worldwide adventures and challenges
- The Bike for Life hall of fame: stories of amazing riders in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and up
With oral-history interviews and profiles of the biggest names of the sport, including: John Howard, Gary Fisher, Rebecca Rusch, Ned Overend, Tinker Juarez, Juli Furtado, Marla Streb, Missy Giove, Johnny G, Eddie B, Mike Sinyard, and Rich "The Reverend" White.
Review
Mountain Bike Tales, 6/3/15and#147;It's an easy read and the varying topics, interviews, and first-hand experience makes you want to keep flipping the pages. If you're just getting into riding, or have been in it for a while and want some tips for making some changes in your training, give this piece of literature a chance.and#8221;
Synopsis
The completely revised and updated edition of Bike for Lifeand#151;everything you need to know to keep you riding past 100.
Synopsis
Second only to running among favorite outdoor activities, cycling continues to enjoy a boom. In fact, Americans spend more on bicycling gear and trips than they do on airplane tickets.
Bike for Life offers key information on medical research, training techniques, nutrition, technology, and equipment trends that impact the sport at every level. It is
the authoritative guide to getting the most out of riding, whether you bike for health, fitness, transportation, or recreation. This essential resource includes research on staying strong longer and tackles issues relevant to older cyclists, especially balance and the antiandndash;aging benefits of cycling. This updated edition also offers skills and events specific to women; new interviews, tips, and strategies; and 100 black-and-white photos to illustrate the exercises.
About the Author
Roy M. Wallack has survived the Eco-Challenge, the Soviet Union by bike, and some of the worlds toughest two-wheel events. Author of
The Traveling Cyclist and a former editor at
Bicycle Guide, California Bicyclist, and
Triathlete magazines, he is a sports-gear columnist for the
Los Angeles Times and covers cycling, fitness, longevity, triathlon, and running for
Bicycling, Mens Journal, Playboy, Outside, Competitor, and
VeloNews. He lives in Irvine, CA.
Bill Katovsky biked solo across America, finished the Hawaii Ironman twice, and founded Triathlete magazine. In 2003, he co-authored Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq: An Oral History, which won Harvards Goldsmith Book Prize. He is also the author of Return to Fitness. He lives in Mill Valley, CA.