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Books : Cycling Past 50 (Ageless Athlete Series)In association with Amazon.comRating:  - Excellent Guide for Improved BikingThis book is an excellent resource. Filled with great info to help you train and improve. Not overly technical like some other books on training, but provides detailed info to help you understand your training needs and initiate different training methods. Read this book with a highlighter. You will want to refer back to it as your biking progresses. Well worth the money. Rating:  - Cyclying Past 50Very informative book about training and riding for those of us over 50. Uses the theory that your maximum heart rate decreases a very small amount over your lifetime (if you remain active) and doesn't not rely on formulas to figure out max heart rate. Offers specific training regimens in order to ride farther and faster (if you want to). This book confirms other information about max heart rate and training especially in the book Heart Zones Cycling by Sally Edwards. Rating: - Cycling Past 50an excellent book for those of us they may be advanced in years, but young at heart, and enjoy bicycling. Rating: - SurprisingI expected some discussion of problems people over 50 have keeping their weight down. There is almost no mention of weight or weight loss, except to say that losing weight slowly, as advised, consists of not eating the equivalent of a small piece of cake each day. A lot of the book is for people who want to do more aggressive cycling than I will likely do. Still, it pushes the rider to be more aggressive for more improvement. The chapter on psyching is very good and highly recommended. The book also discusses using a heart rate monitor to know when a period of recovery has done its work. Rating: - Good source of infoBook was excellent, highly recommend it. The book contains lots of info and tips on how to stay motivated and proper conditioning/training. Liked it so much, I gave it as a gift this year. |
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