Blog: The Coaching Chronicles
Hello Source Endurance Training Center Followers! Welcome to our first newsletter. We hope to bring you this newsletter every month from here on out with new features and events going on in your local Fort Collins cycling specific training center. If you are not aware, we are a relatively new training facility geared towards the…
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We all know how we feel when the heat index is over 100. Somehow we find ourselves on the blacktop, not even a tree branch overhead with the sun beating down on us. It feels like an Earth killing sunspot just arrived, just now during your threshold interval, you are not going to make it…
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Grant Harrison, M.S. Senior Consultant- Source Endurance Are you familiar with “The Rules”? Well, if you aren’t, you should go to Velominati.com and check them out. The authors of this site and their constituents are coined, “keepers of the cog” and have thus laid out a solid foundation or rules, lexicon, ideas, and inspiring guidance…
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Strength and core are pivotal for any cyclist. Yes, your huge legs are like pistons that shove power to the pedals moving you forward but a piston without an engine block has no power. Your core is what your legs push off of to create the power at the pedals. In cyclocross poor core strength…
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Grant Harrison, M.S. Exercise Physiology Senior Consultant- Source Endurance With the Cyclo-cross season just around the corner, now is the time to start preparing. The recent surge in cyclo-cross racing has not only extended the cyclo-cross season in both directions, but has filled the calendar with a full road seasons worth of racing opportunities.…
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Nate Prewitt and I have been working together since the beginning. The very beginning, even before gaining a degree in Exercise Science I helped Nate get some training plans down on paper. Like from the movie Ninja Turtles when Master Splinter and Michelangelo drank the toxic waste and grew into lean, mean, fighting machines, Nate…
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Creating, Establishing and Committing to a Break Away Adam Mills. Source Endurance, Senior Consultant Welcome to the mid-season for road racing, 2015. All around the country, Source Endurance athletes have been taking chances and getting up the road only to have the breakaway attempt fail for a multitude of reasons. I thought I’d take…
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At Source Endurance we know that being on the cutting edge of research and technology makes us some of the best at what we do. Having attended the BSX insight launch in Boulder, Colorado this past year, we came away with valuable insight into the future of performance testing. Wanting to learn more about the…
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“How do you win a bike race?” is a question I am often asked and the answer changes every race and situation but for myself the first thing I try to figure out what I have to do to win. What are my particular strengths and what do I have over the other riders I…
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Winter in the midwest is tough to train in, especially the Great Lakes region where ice and snow make riding the road all but impossible. Many people turn to road and gravel riding, or enduring the harsh elements on the roads they are used to riding in warmer months. Others take to cross country skiing,…
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