Fitness
All the advice and insight you need to improve your riding, enhance your performance or simply get into better shape with cycling.
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Does gym work really benefit your cycling fitness? Here’s how to mix up your training and reap the gains
No time for long winter miles outdoors but can’t face yet another turbo session either? Despair not! Coach Landry Bobo has an alternative winter plan to answer your prayers
By Landry Bobo • Published
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What can we learn from the mindsets of the pros? Tom Pidcock, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio and others share their outlooks for success
Could your cycling benefit from an illuminating shift in thinking? Sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry outlines 10 proven lightbulb moments – switches waiting to be flicked
By Josephine Perry • Published
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'I knew I could go faster': Hill-climb champion Illi Gardner on how she mounted her assault on the title
The Everesting record-holder talks us through a busy week of training, recon and racing ahead of the national champs
By David Bradford • Published
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Nutrition for long bike rides: what to eat before, during and after to avoid ‘bonking’ and maximise your cycling fitness gains
What you eat and drink before, during and after a big ride is the key to success
By Andy Turner • Published
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Nine ways to make yourself and your bike more aero for free
Here are our top tips for free speed: all you need are a few simple adjustments
By Zach Nehr • Published
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Ask a cycling coach: ‘Should I be doing my Zwift sessions in ERG mode?’
Is ERG mode a shortcut to watt-perfect workouts? Or are you losing out on gain by relinquishing control?
By James Spragg • Published
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If pro cycling is now clean, why do records set by dopers keep on getting broken?
Pro cyclists keep getting faster decade after decade. Can improvements in training and tech take all the credit? Joe Laverick compares past and present
By Joe Laverick • Last updated
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What have e-bikes ever done for us? 14 key benefits of riding an electric bike
There are lots of value-added functions provided by many electric bikes
By Paul Norman • Published
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The force reawakens: Milan Vader's incredible comeback from near-fatal crash that broke his back in 11 places
After a horrific crash over a guard rail at Itzulia Basque Country in April, the Jumbo-Visma rider was left fighting for his life. Here, he tells CW about his incredible comeback
By Chris Marshall-Bell • Published