| | | | | New eArticle: Keeping Off the Pounds
Issue No. 601 - 12/05/13 ISSN 1536-4143  
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New eArticle: Keeping Off the Pounds
Raise your hand if you ate too much or exercised too little over Thanksgiving. Raise two hands if you did both! If so, don’t worry, you’re not alone. And help arrives today.
Coach David Ertl has written an eArticle to complement his best-selling eBook, Pedal Off The Pounds, to help you get through the off-season without gaining too much weight that has to be burned off again next spring. Keeping Off The Pounds – a Strategy for Maintaining Body Weight in the Cycling Off-Season offers an array tips for avoiding excessive eating during this time of year, as well as numerous suggestions for continuing to get exercise and burn calories when riding isn’t as easy to make happen.
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| | Ask Coach Fred Training & Nutrition Tips |  | | Fred Matheny | | How Can I Remedy a Weak Leg?
Question: While riding, I sometimes feel my left leg drop off significantly in its contribution to powering the bike. Is there a training technique for dealing with this? -- Don B.
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| | The RBR eBookstore -- Now Over 100 Titles! NEW TITLE! Cycling Past 60, Part 1: For Health, by Coach John Hughes. If you exercise correctly, you can slow the effects of aging; if you exercise incorrectly, you can speed up aging. That’s a key point of this new 24-page eArticle. Your body isn’t a harmonious whole, but is composed of different parts, each of which ages somewhat separately. Coach Hughes gives you six different health maintenance objectives for different components of your physiology, including comprehensive fitness programs that address these objectives.
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In Pedal Off the Pounds, USA Cycling Level 1 Coach David Ertl eschews diet book gimmickry for the hard truth, detailed nutritional and dietary knowledge, and a proven approach to weight loss for cyclists – whether weight loss alone is your goal, or whether losing weight and simultaneously training to improve cycling performance is your goal. When you combine a reduced-calorie diet with increased energy expenditure, weight loss becomes manageable and noticeable. And cycling is the ideal calorie-burning activity. Coach Ertl provides sample eating and workout plans in his 34-page eBook. Click links or book covers for more info on these titles, and click author names to view all titles by that author.
| | Jim's Tech Talk Mechanical & Product Advice |  | | Jim Langley | | Finding and Fixing Drivetrain Drag
Perhaps nothing’s more frustrating than finishing tuning up your pride and joy, lovingly pedaling it by hand in your repair stand one last time and realizing with disgust that something’s dragging. Instead of an effortless-to-turn crankset and silky smoothness, you feel resistance in the drivetrain -- and despite your best efforts to the contrary.
This very thing happened to a Houston, Texas, reader named Phil who wrote me for tips. His letter and my answer follow.
Trivia: Drivetrain drag can drive you batty in a repair stand, but on the road it’s amazing what you won’t notice. The legs are so powerful and unfeeling that
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| | | Also in this Issue Our Regular Weekly Features
News & Reviews: Reader Feedback on Gearing: “Weenie? No way!” • More Reader Feedback: Chamois Cream Tips • What's Your Athletic Maturity • Ask the Engineer: Should Carbon Bikes be Used on Trainers?
No Problem: Three Terrific Trainer Workouts
Quick Tips: Do the Chamois Double Up
Cadence: Best of Spin: Weigh, Weight, Don't Tell Me
Question of the Week: What's Your Athletic Maturity Score (from Cycling Past 60)?
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