Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100
Do you want to ride to 100? Bike for Life!Ride a century when you turn a century. That’s the promise offered by nationally-known bicycle journalists Roy M. Wallack and Bill Katovsky in Bike for Life, a blueprint for using cycling to achieve longevity, fitness, and overall well-being. America’s largest participatory sport combines physical and mental challenges, relaxation, achievement, adventure, and social interaction as it unifies different generations and demographics in fitness and fun. To get the most our of your riding time, steer clear of the sport's potholes, and enjoy a long lifetime of fitness, Bike for Life's comprehensive plan includes:
• Cutting-edge training strategies for best-ever fitness at any age • An anti-aging strength plan to revive muscularity and reaction time • An exclusive 10-step cycling-specific yoga routine • How to beat common injuries like Cyclist’s Knee and Biker’s Back • Famous coaches’ climbing, cornering, handling and eating tips • A cure for cycling-related sexual problems in men and women • 16 ways to stop the scary cycling-osteoporosis connection • List of must-do hill climbs, mass city rides, and cross-state events • Rx for Relationships: Reconciling cycling and significant others • How to survive mountain lions, bike-jackers, poison ivy, headwinds, & more Review About the Author BLL KATOVSKY biked solo across America, finished the Hawaii Ironman twice, and founded Tri-Athlete magazine. In 2003, he co-authored Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq: An Oral History, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize. He lives in Mill Valley, CA. Male Dominated A lot of good information Great ResourceProduct Details
Editorial Reviews
A great, funny page-turner that you simply don’t expect. -- MICHAEL FRANK, Deputy Editor, Bicycling and Mountain Bike
Bike for Life could be the most important book in your life. -- SAL RUIBAL, USA Today cycling writer
What a great book! -- STEVE BOEHMKE, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee
ROY M. WALLACK has survived the Eco-Challenge, the Soviet Union by bike, and some of the world’s toughest two-wheel events. Author of The Traveling Cyclist and a former editor at Bicycle Guide, California Bicyclist, and Triathlete magazines, he is a sports-gear columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covers cycling, fitness, longevity, triathlon, and running for Bicycling, Men’s Journal, Playboy, Outside, Competitor, and VeloNews. He lives in Irvine, CA. Customer Reviews
The best title for this book should be, "Biking As a Lifestyle," not "Biking for Life." It is not concerned with long term biking so much as how to be the best kind of dude and where to compete. Much of the information is found in other cycling and exercise books. The chapter, "Rolling Relationships: Rules for Reconciling Significant Cycling and Significant Others" is where the authors show their colors and their testoserone levels. The general idea is that males rule cycling as a sport and as a way of life. Whatever they decide to do with their sporting life takes precedent over any personal relationship. Women are to be cajoled and bribed. To show their benevolence, males should consider giving women some significant role in their cycling world. Silly little boys!
There are other books with a balance approach to cycling and fitness. Give this a pass by.
This book explains why it is necessary for older riders to stretch before riding and to avoid simple sugars. I am not sure knowing those things will make me do them, but reading the book does move me in the direction of better habits.
I really liked the interviews. I learned something useful in each one of them. They are also the sort of thing that inspires you to ride. Reading descriptions of how to do various exercises was not easy. Perhaps drawings or photos would have helped. Still, I would rather be riding than doing exercises, no matter how advisable it is to do the exercises.
This book will have an effect on my training and riding style. One of the most helpful sections was about using one's glutes more for added power in pedaling. I may not revise everything I do immediately, but I will read my underlinings again and again. In time I will be doing more of what this book suggests.
Several times I thought I would not be at all interested in a new chapter's topic. But, when I got into the chapter it was even more interesting than the previous chapter. Some of the topics were also vital, like watching out for osteoporosis.
The immediately most helpful thing I learned by reading this book was how to utilize and strengthen my 'glutes' for more power and more endurance. I can ride longer and faster with less soreness afterward now. That information alone was worth the cost of the book.
There is some good information on preserving and building relationships, but most of the people cited for their life stories were better examples of broken relationships. Cycling can be addictive and a non-cycling spounse is not always content to sit at home and wait for the cyclist to return home.
It is generally very enjoyable to read.
This book really delivers on it's promise. Not only does it go over a lot of questions that cyclist have it actually gives detailed answers on how to address those questions. I can see myself using this book for a long while.
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