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Summary: Fantastic Methodology
Review: This book combined with Joe's on-line training website is thebest set of tools for the serious mountain biker- bar none. A comprehensive and incredibly useful set of information sure to improve anyone's skill.
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Summary: Best Book for Mountain Bike Racers
Review: This book transformed my training from a casual, unstructured regament, into a clearly defined and explained periodization program. I now have complete understanding of how hard to train, when to train, and why to train on a cold winter day when the first race isn't until June.
The book is easy to follow, massively informative and well written.
After reading the book, check out the online coaching by the author at Trainingbible.com.
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Summary: Great introduction to the world of mountain bike training!
Review: This book was recommended to me by a local mountain bike Pro. She said if I was serious about taking my riding and racing to the next level, I had to get this book. I'm glad she turned me on to it, as it has been one of the most informative books on mountain bike specific training I've read. I wish it had more case studies and sample weekly and yearly training schedules, but the lack of them leaves their design up to your imagination. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is seriously thinking about getting into mountain bike racing or wanting to take their riding to the next level.
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Summary: Great introduction to the world of mountain bike training!
Review: This book was recommended to me by a local mountain bike Pro. She said if I was serious about taking my riding and racing to the next level, I had to get this book. I'm glad she turned me on to it, as it has been one of the most informative books on mountain bike specific training I've read. I wish it had more case studies and sample weekly and yearly training schedules, but the lack of them leaves their design up to your imagination. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is seriously thinking about getting into mountain bike racing or wanting to take their riding to the next level.
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Summary: Searching for the burning bush
Review: This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in training to become a stronger, more efficient rider/racer. Ned Overend writes the foreward/preface/praises of Friel's methods. Material covers from subjective, self-evaluative/empirical techniques, to scientific, performance result-based study of individual performance. Psychological profiling, pre-visualization, and projection techniques are covered as well as the expected mile-counting. Joe Friel is quick to point out that it is not an overnight method of strength building(show me one! ) but a process that can take years to mature. As it get's more technical in logging, metering, and studying performance values it may not be suitable for the novice trying to pick up on what they need to do to be a better weekend rider, but is _essential_ reading for those interested in bettering themselves as racers. That is, unless you are racing in my particular class of 35-39 Sport racers, in which case you should read the latest book on becoming a couch potato(_not_ a Friel book)Highly recommended
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Summary: redundant and disorganized
Review: Yah I think the guy writing this is probably a weed hound or something. His thought process is random, although detailed. I found that calling this the bible of mountain biking training is a joke, a bad joke. This author first wrote the Road Cyclists Training Bible and then changed a few sentences to adabt it to mountain biking. Some of the pictures he didn't even bother to change into mountain bikes from road bikes. Their are however some good sections of the book for me and they are: sections & theme on overtraining and the value of rest and recovery; the section on planning the whole year into sections for training and planned peaks around critical races. The bible it isn't, but there are some valuable sections.
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Summary: redundant and disorganized
Review: Yah I think the guy writing this is probably a weed hound or something. His thought process is random, although detailed. I found that calling this the bible of mountain biking training is a joke, a bad joke. This author first wrote the Road Cyclists Training Bible and then changed a few sentences to adabt it to mountain biking. Some of the pictures he didn't even bother to change into mountain bikes from road bikes. Their are however some good sections of the book for me and they are: sections & theme on overtraining and the value of rest and recovery; the section on planning the whole year into sections for training and planned peaks around critical races. The bible it isn't, but there are some valuable sections.
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