Mountain biking is a great sport but it also isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a tough, grinding activity that demands a level of toughness from the people who do it that no other cycling sport does. A drawback to being tough, though, is not paying enough attention to injuries. Ignoring injuries or using […]
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Do Mountain Bikers Need To Train Like Bodybuilders?
I was working out with my daughter this morning and we were talking about how I was her age when I started to get serious about strength training. I told her that while I had “worked out” for a few years before turning 16 and getting my license, it mainly consisted of periodically sneaking into […]
One of the hardest parts of learning to ride a mountain bike is how to make good decisions on the trail in the heat of the moment. A lot of wrecks are caused by bad decisions about speed and line choice and bad decisions can also lead to you working harder than needed So how […]
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3 Surprising Things That Can Improve Your Cardio
Everyone wants to improve their cardio and a lot of riders invest time and money following programs to help them do that. While things like intervals and steady state cardio are well known things that can help improve your cardio, there are other things that can help that most riders don’t know about. Over the […]
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Creating Confidence On The Trail
So I’m doing something a bit different with this post. I’ve decided to start shooting a YouTube Live Stream video 3 days a week to get more information out there faster and this is the replay of the first episode. In this one I answer a rider’s question about how to gain more confidence on […]
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Lessons Learned For MTB From Earning My BJJ Black Belt
10 years ago I decided to become a literal white belt at something new – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I had been riding bikes for 12 years at that point and had achieved a reasonable level of skill and fitness. But my progress at that point was only in small increments, which is typical when you […]
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How To Double Your Results From Cardio Training.
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Would you like to double the results from your cardio workout? Of course the answer to this question is “yes”. Every rider who is reading this would love to get better results from their cardio workouts and being able to double your results would be pretty wild. Better yet, what if I told you that […]
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The Worst Feeling In Mountain Biking…
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While mountain biking delivers a lot of great feelings for us, there is one that most riders dread more than anything else – the panicky “I can’t catch my breath” feeling that you can get during a hard climb or sprint. Everyone who has ridden knows this feeling and how it can stop you in […]
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BikeJames Podcast: Training With Your Teenager
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In this episode of the BikeJames Podcast I share some advice about how to train with your teenager. These are lessons I’ve learned from working out with my own daughter over the last year or so and can apply to working with your kid or even kids in general, like if you work with a […]
I’ve got a new podcast for you today covering some important topics to help improve your training and riding. In it I’ll be sharing my thoughts on dumbbells for MTB specific training, the findings of a study that looked at breathing patterns and functional movement, plus I’ll answer a rider’s question about how narrow is […]
