The Cyclist’s Training Bible, 4th Ed.

The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

Author: Joe Friel

The Cyclist’s Training Bible is the bestselling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced cyclists. Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven cycling training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport.

Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Cyclist’s Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

The Cyclist’s Training Bible equips cyclists of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this all-new edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized cycling training program and:

• train with the right intensity and volume
• gain maximum fitness from every workout
• change your training plan over the course of the season
• make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
• build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
• improve body composition with smarter nutrition

The Cyclist’s Training Bible is the world’s most trusted guide to cycling training. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this newest version of the bible of the sport.

What’s New in this fifth edition of The Cyclist’s Training Bible? Coach Joe Friel started writing the fifth edition of The Cyclist’s Training Bible with a blank page: the entire book is new. This new edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques, improves on ways to develop technique, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance.

The Cyclist’s Training Bible, 5th Ed.: The World’s Most Comprehensive Training Guide
Joe Friel

• Paperback. Two-color interior with tables, charts, and figures throughout.
• 8 1/2″ x 11″, 328 pp.

Prologue

Acknowledgments

PART I: MIND AND BODY

Chapter 1 Mental Performance: Motivation | Dreams, Goals, and Missions | Mental Toughness | Patience | Commitment and Tenacity | Consistency and Routines | Your High-Performance Team

Chapter 2 Physical Performance: The Right Stuff | Training Beliefs | Four Steps to Training with a Purpose

PART II: TRAINING FUNDAMENTALS

Chapter 3 Basic Training Concepts: Training Principles | Duration, Intensity, and Frequency | Volume and Intensity | Dose and Density | Training Load | Supercompensation | Fitness, Fatigue, and Form

Chapter 4 Training Intensity: Training with Effort, Heart Rate, and Power | Intensity Reference Points | Intensity Distribution | Functional Threshold | Setting Training Zones | Training Stress Score

PART III: PURPOSEFUL TRAINING

Chapter 5 Getting Started: Training Tools | Seasonal Goals | Assessment

Chapter 6 Preparing to Race: What Is Fitness? | Abilities | Ability Limiters

PART IV: PLANNING YOUR SEASON

Chapter 7 Planning Overview: Periodization | Planning | The Annual Training Plan

Chapter 8 Planning a Week: Schedule Weekly Workouts | Weekly and Daily Training | Missed Workouts

Chapter 9 Planning Alternatives: Linear Periodization Alternatives | Nonlinear Periodization Alternatives | A Simple Plan

PART V: STRESS AND RECOVERY

Chapter 10 Training Stress: Risk and Reward| Avoiding Overtraining | Managing Overreaching

Chapter 11 Fatigue, Recovery, and Adaptation: Measuring Fatigue | Recovery and Adaptation | Strategic Recovery

PART VI: THE COMPETITIVE EDGE

Chapter 12 Muscular Force Training: The Nervous System and Force | Weight Lifting | Functional Force Training | TSS and Weight Lifting

Chapter 13 Tapering to Race: Fitness | Form | The Components of Tapering | Peak and Race Period Routines

Chapter 14 The Training Diary: Diary or Log? | Planning with a Diary | What to Record | Training Analysis | Race Analysis

Epilogue

Appendix A: Annual Training Plan Template

Appendix B: Workouts

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the Author