Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science To Improve Your Riding and Racing [Paperback]

Ed R. Burke (Author), Edmund R. Burke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2006

Stay healthy and avoid injury -- that is the mantra of every athlete. This new edition of Cycling Health and Physiology is packed with practical advice on how to do just that, whether you are a cyclist, a runner, or a paddler. It is just the book for everyone who wants to understand how recent discoveries in science and sportsmedicine can apply to everyday training and racing. Written by the late Ed Burke*, Ph.D, the book presents practical "cyclist-to-cyclist" advice on how the heart, lungs, and muscles work and how you can use this knowledge to get the most out of your exercise.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Burke brings sport science out of the Olympic athlete arena and into everyone's life so that you too can ride faster, stronger and more powerful --Chris Carmichael, 1996 Olympic Cycling Team Head Coach and Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's personal coach.

Ed Burke writes in a clear, straightforward style that makes sport science easy to understand and to apply to our riding. Once again, he comes through for us with information about bicycling physiology, nutrition, training, and general cycling health issues. It's just what we want and need to know. --Arnie Baker, M.D. -- 5-Time U.S. National Cycling Champion, author of six books on bicycling, and licensed Elite USCF coach whose riders have won more than 50 National Championships and set more than 20 U.S. records

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Chris Carmichael, the 1996 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team coach and personal coach for Olympian Lance Armstrong, says, "Burke moves sport science out of the Olympic athlete arena and into everyone's life so that you too can ride faster, stronger, and more powerful."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Vitesse Press; 2 edition (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941950344
• ISBN-13: 978-0941950343
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,510,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The scene behind cycling, July 17, 2000

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JHC ENGELBRECHT (CENTURION, GAUTENG South Africa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science To Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

I read Serios Cycling from Ed Burke and realized that there is more to cycling than mere racing. Being a "new" cyclist at the age of 43 I had great difficulty to match the "older" cyclists that have been cycling competatively for the last 25 years. This book helped me to see what is all the preparation work behind the scenes. Mere fitness is not enough. You tend to hit the wall during training rides and feel confused because you are still not there. The understanding of how muscles work and what they need to continue performing at extreme levels of endurance made me to adapt my diet and pre-race preparation to ensure maximum energy, nutrition and oxygen are available to the working muscles to perform at their best. It was a complete mind change but today, less than three months since I bought this book fellow cyclist are questioning if I use steriods. They could not believe the improvement! The book is well laid out to explain the basic as well as the advanced detail of the body and mind and how to overcome those stages where you seem not to progress at all. If you are serious about cycling, get this book. You'll see what I mean!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reference!, July 20, 2001

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This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science To Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

I will be reading this book several times. It's packed with information on how to maximize your training session, off-season training advice, nutitional info, how to cope with jet lag, ad infinitum. I recommend this book to all who take this sport seriously.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for introduction to cycling..., March 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Cycling Health and Physiology: Using Sports Science To Improve Your Riding and Racing (Paperback)

This book is written for the "layman" in regards to the physiology behind the sport of cycling. As someone not familiar with VO2 max or heart rate training or even different methods of training, this book is perfect.

As someone with an Exercise Physiology background, however, this book was nothing more than a reveiw of everything I have learned. I was looking for something more physiologically based.