Health and Nutrition

The Quick and Easy Guide to Cycling During Lockdown

The idea of this guide is to help you maximise your cycling time, maintain your condition, and to continue to get enjoyment from cycling. With tighter restrictions in place in the UK and Ireland and ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Cycling with Sciatica: Chiropractor's Tips To Ease Pain

Cyclists need to watch out for a variety of injuries, especially sciatica. This irritating condition alters your sciatic nerve causing it to send tingling sensations throughout your lower back. If no ...

Monday, 10 May 2021

6 Tips to Lose Weight Through Cycling

Cycling is a fantastic exercise. It works certain muscle groups, exercises your heart and keeps you in better condition. It is also good for your immune system, which in the current climate is no bad ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Using Road Cycling to Burn Fat

Getting the balance right with fat is important if you want to be a better road cyclist. Too much and the excess weight will hold you back and slow you down. Too little and you will deplete your glyc ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Cycling, Hydration, and what you need to Know

Always Keep Hydrated Keeping hydrated is essential to cycling whether you are on a training ride or a sportive. As we ride we lose fluids through our sweat all the time and we risk running into unple ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Understanding Carbohydrates in Relation to Cycle Training

If you are cycling for over an hour and a half on a training ride or sportive, you will need to take food and fluids to avoid the dreaded “bonking”. Your fluid intake will be water possibly mixed wit ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Coming Back to Cycling after a Long Break

If you haven't ridden for a number of years, getting back on a bike may seem a bit daunting. You may have been putting it off, planning to ‘do it tomorrow’, and never actually quite getting around to ...

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Want to Stay Healthy as you get Older? Start Cycling

Enjoy a Cycling Holiday on the Cycling Paradise of Mallorca There has been a lot written about the health benefits of cycling. Studies have found that it is good for your heart, lungs, muscles, and m ...

Wednesday, 30 June 2021

Seven Good Reasons to Start Road Cycling...

...as well as Saving the Planet. If you are yet to climb back on the saddle and start cycling, here are good reasons to do so. There are few negative points about cycling, and lots and lots of good o ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

Improve your Core Strength for Better Cycling

A cyclist's core strength is very important. It can prevent pain and injury, as well as providing a cyclist with a solid muscular base for sprinting, hill climbing, and distance cycling. If you spend ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

Slow Energy Foods Which Should be Part of your Training Diet

Get the most of your Cycling Training Slow energy foods are excellent for your training programme as they provide energy over the long term. This list of four of the best foods are fairly easy to tra ...

Sunday, 04 July 2021

Eat the right Foods for Better Cycling Performance

Like all exercise and sport, eating the right food is essential for performance. Even if you are only riding your bike to and from work, you will still be burning energy. A good diet will compliment ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

Lose Weight by Cycling

Lose Weight by Cycling Cycle your way to Health Cycling is not only one of the fastest growing sports on the planet it is also offers a good way of losing weight. Swapping your car for two wheels is ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

Nutritional mistakes made by cyclists

Common nutritional mistakes made by individuals on our cycling trips Whilst it is obviously important to eat healthily and avoid fatty foods where possible, a large proportion of the individuals on o ...

Friday, 28 May 2021

Leah Vande Velde's low gluten recipes

Anti-inflammatory, low gluten diet : a new power source for cyclists ? Leah Vande Velde's low gluten recipes Published : by Sarah Staber in VeloNews May. 13th, 2009 Read Sarah Staber's entire story o ...

Friday, 28 May 2021