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Calibrate your power meter every ride
Calibrate your power meter each day to ensure that your data is accurate and so comparable over time. Make it part of your pre-ride routine.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Maintaining your trainer accuracy: calibrating
Maintain your trainer with a regular calibration and firmware update check. This will improve power accuracy and performance on Zwift.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Group riding: anticipate where the rider will need to go
Anticipate how the draft and wind will determine where a rider will place themselves in the group. It'll make the ride safer and smoother.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Self care: do a little bit everyday
We often don't do our self care because of the perceived time commitment. It doesn't have to be that way.

Sans Chaine
2 min read


Self care exercises: shoulder rotations
Maintaining scapular mobility is a must for both health and performance.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Self care exercises: scapular mobility
Counteract our constantly hunched position on the bike

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Self care exercises: cogs
Working on your cogs will help maintain connectivity and mobility throughout your body.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Self care exercises: clock workout
This is the type of work you could do throughout the day, countering our time spent sitting at the desk.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Reading and using a structured workout
Before diving into your workout take the time to read the structured workout. Zwift won't convey the nuance. Make the workouts your own.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Structured workouts: indoors or outdoors?
Just because a workout has a structured workout file attached doesn't mean you can't take that ride outdoors.

Sans Chaine
2 min read


How many rest days a week is right for me?
We each need to make a decision on how much rest we need based on our lives.

Sans Chaine
2 min read


Perseverance: fast again, 10 years in the making
Changes in our fitness can happen unexpectedly, but only if we don't give up on our training.

Andrew Randell
3 min read


Endurance rides: the why and how
Many riders don't ever do real endurance training, finding it frustrating. But it is well worth developing that aerobic sysetm.

Sans Chaine
4 min read


Go hard or go home training didn't work
Once I got my first power meter I realized that an important part of riding was your work capacity. The thing was I took the wrong approach.

Andrew Randell
3 min read


For the love of the bike: sometimes it’s good to take a break from “training”
Taking time to ride without training will keep you mentally fresh and make you fitter in the end.

Sans Chaine
2 min read


Realizing that FTP wasn't the answer
Soon after hitting the first climb at Haute Route Adrian realized that his FTP based training wasn't the right approach.

Sans Chaine
1 min read


Perseverance: success is sometimes just a case of sticking with it
We should add perseverance to our list of training principles. Without it you may never reach your goal.

Andrew Randell
2 min read


The Toolbox: putting together the jigsaw puzzle
The Toolbox helps make you a complete cyclist, helping ensure your training will translate into better performance.

Sans Chaine
3 min read


Performance: it’s more than just the legs
Despite perfect training and strong legs, our performance can be more determined by our mental state than our physical abilities.

Andrew Randell
3 min read


Getting fitter: it's more than just watts
Changes in your FTP or VO2 aren't the only way to get fitter and perform better.

Sans Chaine
3 min read
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