Competitive Cycling Tips : Training for Road Races in Competitive Cycling

Riding your bike on hills is an important way to build your endurance and train for road races. Learn how to train for competitive cycling road races in this free educational sports video on bicycling.

Expert: Sal Collura
Contact: www.velotv.net
Bio: Sal Collura has been racing bikes at the elite level for 20 years. He placed 5th overall in the Criterium rankings for the State of Oregon in 2007, and 3rd overall in 2006.
Filmmaker: Sal Collura

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Sports

Tags:

• cycling
• bicycles
• fitness
• sports
• competitive cycling
• bike racing
• mountain biking
• road biking
• bike races

[djivori]

you can't go 100% 100% of the time you'll never get anywhere with that attitude...in order to succeed in life you need to plan things out not just go in guns ablazing...road racing is very methodical sport so if you think you can go into a race and floor it the whole time you'll come in last place every time

[daFranch1se69]

IMO hills is where you seperate the men and the weight weenies, no I mean boys, hehe.

But seriously, when it comes down to it, you have to go all out, or your just doing nothing, you think Lance justs takes it easy?? No he gives everything he has in every pedal stroke, in order to succeed in anything in life is through going through some pain, It wont hurt forever but you will gain experience from it. Plus its very mental.

[phillyhouse]

Road bike racing is like a book of matches. You should use 1/3 of your matches in the first third of the race, 1/3 of your matches during the second third of the race, and make sure you have 1/3 of your matches for the last third of the race. If you follow this videos advice, you will burn all of your matches way too early!!

[THEONLYDEEDMAN]

i did 15 miles up hill on 21 gear and it was hard

[ipod31st]

This guys voice drives me crazy, UMmm, Ummmmm, Ummmmmm. Like he's always trying to find the right answer, always looking up finding his words, DUDE are you even a expert on this? your not paid to think your paid to work!!

[McL0vable]

Once I realized this was uploaded by expertvillage, I wrote this comment then closed the video xD

[XC4runner]

@djivori He never said 100% 100% of the time...He said not going 100% will allow you to go harder for longer periods of time.

[whelan1999]

what training would ye recommend for an u12 cyclist in the national championships, ireland? im currently doing 4 training sesions a week, two of which are intervals, 1 is a long endurance cycle at the weekend (usually about 60km) and the last one was a recovery cycle but i now will probably do hill repeats instead. any advice would be great. thanks

[ramosc1980]

This must have been filmed in Oregon. I noticed the National Guard Armory in Cottage Grove (35sec.). That street is definitely not a hill, it is flat. I guess whoever was filming tilted the camera to make it look like a hill.

[beastmodetrevor]

@bigcunt1000 Come ride 60 miles and tell me how "poofty" cyclist are.

[foleybarbarian]

So your a fucking Aussie what you want a fucking medal. I'm Irish 210 pounds likes to drink and fight bare knuckles once in a while against good fighters lived in France.. so if a Aussie wants to have a go off a cyclist then we could sort something out

[ktayor1]

@25jonathan Sounds like it I guess, but for biking.