Sports talent in young cyclists
It is from the middle of the last century, where sport is increasingly gaining more prominence in society and, even more, in the last 30 years. New tests appear, New sports modalities, Olympic tests… This article aims to make known which are the most important indicators
Thermal stress due to heat
Training or competing in the heat can cause significant declines in the performance of any athlete.. In some cases, of the 6 al 16%. But, being an individual response to heat, why is this happening? Next, We show some causes: Dehydration and greater loss of s
Strength in Youth
You may have hired a trainer for your children and you have been surprised to see that in planning there are one or several strength work sessions. If the alarms have jumped you thinking that it is not suitable for young people at an early age to do strength work, these following l
We only have 1 hour to train
Take advantage of that hour of training. Many times we find that we do not have much time to train, especially on work days, where sometimes “only” one hour of training is available. That is why we must make the most of our sports planning., c
Road to Tokyo
This week's entry on our blog is going to be about how the season has been planned 2021 for Jofre Cullell, athlete who will compete next Monday at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the XCO modality in the men's category. First of all, We must advance that Jofre will be one of the youngest
Differences between a high-performance and amateur cyclist
On Tour de France days, It is not uncommon to marvel at the many exhibitions that professional cyclists perform: great speeds in ports with large slopes, massive sprints, average speed in very long stages and the number of kilometers they cover during three weeks
Maximum lactate at steady state
Returning to the physiological milestones of our metabolism, we are going to write to you about the maximum lactate in stable state (MLSS in English). We must once again keep in mind the triphasic model of Mclellan and Skinner (1980) that we already mentioned in the previous post of VT1 or aerobic threshold.
Zones / Training rhythms
In this blog post we are going to comment on the distribution that we can give to our training intensities, taking into account previous entries about the different physiological milestones of our metabolism. We will determine these areas by different methods or ways of obtaining them:
Digging deeper into heart rate variability
In this new blog entry we will take a bit of the thread from one of our first blog posts where we talked about heart rate variability (HRV or HRV in English). In this case we will see what we measure and what we intend with each of the measurements., so we can improve
