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. This second edition of Cycling Health & Physiology - Using Sports Science to Improve Your Riding and Racing is 240 pages long and filled with illustrations, charts, tables, and an index. The price is $17.95 but is now $14.36. Order today!
Reviewers praised Burke's writing, saying:
"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.
Cycling Health and Physiology was cited in Bicyclist Magazine as a sidebar in the article "Mental Toughness in Cycling."
The book was also reviewed in Tandem Magazine.
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*Ed Burke, Ph.D., was one on the leading experts on sports medicine and a professor and the director of the Exercise Science Program at the University of Colorado. He wrote fourteen books and hundreds of columns for Winning Magazine, Mountain Biker, Muscular Development, Nutritional Science News and NORBA News and Bicycling Magazine.
