Watch USA Cycling Chief of Sport Performance Jim Miller’s 13-minute presentation on The State of USA Cycling Coaching Development and Education during the 2022 USA Cycling Coaching Summit.
Watch USA Cycling Chief of Sport Performance Jim Miller’s 13-minute presentation on The State of USA Cycling Coaching Development and Education during the 2022 USA Cycling Coaching Summit.
Over a century of training and racing, coaches and athletes have continually experimented with the balance of volume and intensity. Today’s best practices look to maximize both a high volume of training and a small but potent dose of high-intensity work.
The timely combination of running facilities and stopwatches gave running a leg up on other endurance sports, inviting more structured training and innovation.
The early European cycling scene was convinced that more miles and more racing made champions. By the 1980s, a new generation of pros was redefining the goal and the roadmap to get there.
Coach Joe Friel recounts the relatively short history of endurance sports to identify the athletes and coaches that influenced how we train and race today.