Full Gas Forever - A 40+ Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Further

An accessible and easy-to-follow guide for road cyclists looking to defy the years and ride faster and further. Getting older does not mean getting slower. Improving your performance is achievable despite the advance of the years. If you are a midlife rider who wants to ride faster and for longer, Full Gas Forever provides the complete guide. Ed Clancy OBE, a three-time Olympic gold-medal winning cyclist and stretching and flexibility expert Lexie Williamson, are the ideal people to guide you through the strategies, training, benefits and pitfalls of going full-gas in your fourth or fifth decade. Mixing anecdotes, insights and personal experiences from their own sporting lives, you will find practical guidance on the following: exercises to enable riders to work on this area of fitness. off-bike preparation ride fuelling through a nutritionally focused diet recovery strategies injury prevention as well as advice on avoiding overtraining. dealing with injuries and adapting your training plan accordingly specifically designed programmes to smash the sprints and outlast the others in a test of endurance. Whether you''re looking to scale those peaks, smash those sprints or outlast the others in a test of endurance, this book shows just how it can be done.

List of contents

1. The Midlife Cyclist
2. Bikes and Bits
3. Strength Training
4. Core Strength
5. Minimising Resistance
6. Flexibility
7. Niggles
8. Does Mental Performance
9. Training Basics
10. Cycling Technique
11. Training Specifics
12. Hydration
13. Nutrition
14. Recovery
15. Sleep
16. Hormones
17. Going off-road
18. Indoor training
19. Racing

About the author

Ed Clancy, Lexie Williamson

Product details

• Authors: Ed Clancy, Lexie Williamson, Williamson Lexie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.08.2025
• EAN: 9781399420204
• ISBN: 978-1-399-42020-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; HEALTH & FITNESS / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Mid-Life, Fitness & diet, Sports training & coaching, cycling, Fitness and diet, Maturation & Ageing, Relating to middle adulthood, Cycling: general and touring, Coping with old age, Coping with / advice about ageing