Customer Reviews

Carmichael Training Systems Cyclist's Diary

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At the request of my coach, I bought this diary to keep track of my training over the course of the year. It's really helpful to be able to look at my training from the past few months and compare my progress on various courses and tasks. As far as training logs go, this one seems to be ideally set up for the competitive or recreational cyclist.

As we learned in The Ultimate Ride, structure is a big part of a training program. This book helped me to get organized and stay on track. I was also able to look back and see a progression of my workouts. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to get into shape, but has trouble staying on task.

Great information. Training reflects those I used in a marathon training program that was sucessful. If you want a personalized program though, you will have to purchase it. Price for that training seems reasonable and there is an offer of free initial consultation with Carmichael Training Systems. All in all, this book is very useful.

First, being a diary it has lots of blank pages. Only about 43 pages have information.

That being said, if you are a serious athelete and you do not have a diary, get this one. You can adapt its pages for other purposes besides cycling. If you already do, borrow this book and see if you can do it better.

I used a modified format for my training diary that is almost exactly the same as this one. Various doctors and physical medicene therapists have often marvelled at my training notes, and I owe 80% of it to Chris Carmichael.

The end of the book has important lists that you should keep, such as bike measurements, equipment. It is very complete.

I find that this cycling diary is a usefull tool for anyone following a structered training program especially those using CTS for thier training. The format is easy to follow.

Any cyclist using a structured training program should use this diary to record your daily workouts. Great information also accompanies each entry.

For a quick record of your activities, weight, moods, morning HR......etc this is the shiznit. I have had em all and this is the one I keep filling out. The training information at the front of the book is very helpful too. The spiral binding allows me to keep the book on my desk and open to my training week.....staring me in the face, reminding me to train and fill the little pages out. I like it.

As a cyclist who is training for racing (or for a century/benefit tours something like that), and if you want to take your training seriously, you're going to need a training diary. I personally find Chris Carmichael totally obnoxious, in that everything he does is a plug for his CTS Trainright thing, but a diary is pretty much a diary, and you should get one anyway. However, next year I will be getting Joe Friel's diary, particularly because I use his Cyclist's Training Bible (which I highly recommend).