Can anyone recommend a training book for a newbie?

Baybash
Baybash Posts: 136
edited November 2009 in Training, fitness and health
I'd like something that I can use as a reference book and that has some progressively harder training schedules/ideas
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Have a look at this, it's not bad as it covers all the basics and does get progressively harder with 3 good training plans.

    However, the most important thing for a 'newbie' IMO is just to get out and ride and enjoyu finding new routes. Joining a club was the most important step in my development as it introduced me to like minded people, made me get faster and showed me routes and places I've never been...
  • mackdaddy
    mackdaddy Posts: 310
    For a complete newbie, the Joe Friel Cyclists Training Bible is a good start.
    Many on here hate it because of discrepancies in it, but that's because they have power meters and coaches (or are already coaches) and have forgotten what it's like to start out.
    Get that and read it, it will give you a very good foundation and you'll be able to build a training plan from it. If there are bits in it you get stuck on then feel free to pm me or post your question on this forum. However, be prepared for a long thread of denouncers and exponents amongst the answers with the post route.
    Friel will get you through the first couple of years nothing more, but that is what you're asking for.
    Joinint a club is good, but I'm guessing you want to lift your standard first. The one thing I think you should do is pick a discipline to train for. TT, Road racing, cyclo-cross, sportives. Any training programme is dependent on the target. Sportives or TTs are easy to get into for a newb.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Heh heh, ironically the Training Bible says that you should do a couple years' riding before following the plan.

    Cracking book though.
  • bahzob
    bahzob Posts: 2,195
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Heh heh, ironically the Training Bible says that you should do a couple years' riding before following the plan.

    Cracking book though.

    Training Bibles got a lot of good stuff. Its where I started pretty much from zero background and did me very well.

    As to whether you should do couple of years riding, well that's probably right in an ideal world. However like most everything about training it very much varies with individual.
    Martin S. Newbury RC

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