Health and Nutrition

Your Guide to Preparing for the Mallorca 312 & Marmotte Granfondo Alps Sportives

You’ve booked the big sportive and you’re eager to prepare and develop the right condition to complete it. That’s great but how is that accomplished? This guide will provide guidance on how to comple ...

mercredi 25 janvier 2023

The Right Food for the Right Ride – Determine Your Cycling Nutrition

The chances are you know that cycling nutrition is vital to putting in good cycling performances. What you eat on and off the bike is important and plays an important role in how far you can ride, ho ...

lundi 2 janvier 2023

17 Tips for a Stellar New Year of Road Cycling

We all know that New Year’s resolutions don’t tend to stick. You make the promise to do this and do that, and a few weeks in they start to slide. It’s just how it is. At SportActive, we have your bac ...

jeudi 29 décembre 2022

How Accurate is Your Calorie Burn Device?

Thanks to the rise of electronic devices we have a plethora of ways of measuring calorie burn when on two wheels. The more sophisticated devices can measure distance and show GPS information as well ...

mercredi 7 septembre 2022

Training Tips for Every Kind of Cycling

Whether you crave the feeling of getting to the summit of the highest cols, riding faster on the flat, cyclosportives, or simply enjoy cycling for the beauty of it, we have a training tip for you. In ...

mardi 5 avril 2022

9 Achievable New Year’s Cycling Resolutions

Now you’ve had your turkey and celebrated the new year, now is the time to get organised and back on the bike. We have all made resolutions but sticking to them can sometimes be difficult. In cycling ...

mercredi 12 janvier 2022

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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

lundi 10 mai 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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

mercredi 30 juin 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 ...

mercredi 30 juin 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 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 ...

dimanche 4 juillet 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 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 ...

vendredi 28 mai 2021