Ride Your Way Lean: The Ultimate Plan for Burning Fat and Getting Fit on a Bike [Paperback]

Selene Yeager (Author), Bicycling Magazine Editors (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 17, 2010

Bicycling’s resident Fit Chick delivers a weight-loss plan designed to help readers lose 30, 50, or even 100 pounds by riding a bike and eating sensibly

Forget gym memberships and running shoes. The best way to lose weight is on a bike. In Ride Your Way Lean, Bicycling magazine columnist Selene Yeager provides readers with a comprehensive cycling plan that allows them to shed fat, streamline their bodies, and hone their skills on a bike. Cycling is gentle on the joints, easy to do with friends and family, and burns literally thousands of calories without being a bore or cause for suffering.

 

A weight-loss program for people who want to drop pounds of fat while learning a new sport, this book offers training plans that turbocharge metabolism along with complementary nutritional advice. Each chapter is seasoned with anecdotal tips, success stories, pitfalls, and other advice from real people who have ridden themselves lean.

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About the Author

SELENE YEAGER  is a trusted authority on training, nutrition, and weight loss for Bicycling. She is the author of several books and writes regularly for Runner’s World, Prevention, Shape, and Self. She lives in Emmaus, PA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books (August 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605294063
• ISBN-13: 978-1605294063
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,155 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Individual Sports > Cycling
  • #52 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Exercise & Fitness > Injuries & Rehabilitation

More About the Author

SELENE YEAGER is a top-selling author and professional health and fitness writer who lives what she writes as a certified personal trainer, expert-class mountain bike racer, and triathlete. She has authored, co-authored, and contributed to more than two dozen books. She is a contributing editor at Prevention and Scuba Diving magazines and dishes out training advice monthly as Bicycling magazine's "FitChick." She lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Encouraging for beginners, a bit light for avid cyclists, August 26, 2010

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Pat Loughery "Pat Loughery" (North Bend, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ride Your Way Lean: The Ultimate Plan for Burning Fat and Getting Fit on a Bike (Paperback)

Ride Your Way Lean advocates cycling as an exercise and lifestyle choice to lean up. It begins with very basic information: why cycling, how to buy a bike, equipment - and my fear was that it would be too simplistic for my needs. It gets a bit more helpful though, with good discussions of basic nutrition, eating plans, ride plans, indoor trainer exercises, off-bike exercises and other goodies.

I would recommend this book to somebody who's considering or just getting into cycling. For more seasoned riders wanting more depth of content, see Base Building for Cyclists by Chapple, or The Time Crunched Cyclist by Carmichael.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for beginners...lots of good information for seasoned cyclists as well, August 25, 2010

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The book market for exercise and weight-loss is flooded with ideas on how to take off and keep off the weight. But how many of the weight loss ideas are actually fun! Selene Yeagers new book "Ride Your Way Lean" will not only explain in splendid detail the workings of our bodies, all those chemical things going on and the balancing act they perform, but she makes reading it uncomplicated and forgiving for those of us without a fitness background.

Two years ago I purchased her book "Every Woman's Guide to Cycling" where I was educated about bikes, accessories, making and reaching cycling goals. My copy of her book looks like my grandmother's bible, all marked up and highlighted. Here I got the basics. In her new Book, "Ride Your Way Lean" I get the details of the inner workings of our amazing bodies and I intend to use the information she provides to help me knock off those last few stubborn pounds.

Make no mistake, this book will be just as helpful to a newcomer to cycling as it is to a seasoned cyclist and it will give you the tools to lose 100 pounds or 10 pounds at any age and have fun while doing it. Quit paying a therapist....buy the book, get on a bike and heal thyself inside and out. Janeen Shirley

30 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source of information, August 17, 2010

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Tim Lomprey (Las Vegas, NV, US) - See all my reviews

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First of all, kudo's to Amazon, I puchased the book on Sunday and it was delivered yesterday, a full day before the release. Good job gang.

I read this excellent book in an all nigter. I use to race, and well, life got in the way and I needed to be lean and not lard. I was excited to read some no-nonsense material that has given me the kick I was lacking.

I had been thinking about riding again to lose the weight, but quite honestly I had forgotten how to eat, what to eat and how to properly train for optimal weight loss. Look no further, it's all here.