The Ultimate Ride: Get Fit, Get Fast, and Start Winning With the World's Top Cycling Coach

Rating:
Summary: A good place to start
Review: The Ultimate Ride picks up and refines where a previous collaboration between Lance and Chris titled "The Lance Armstrong Performance Program - 7 Weeks to the Perfect Ride" left off. The Ultimate Ride provides enough detail in the areas of goal setting, proper training routines, nutrition, and overall bike and body awareness that I constantly pick it up and refer to it as a reference tool before and after a ride. If you have constant pain after a ride there is a chart in there to break down the causes of such pains. If you want to know how to eat and drink in preparation of a race or long ride or what is best to eat and drink for recovery after the ride, it is in there. If you want to learn to climb better, it is in there. Riders of all levels will find nuggets of information that will make them a better cyclist.

Rating:
Summary: A good place to start
Review: The Ultimate Ride picks up and refines where a previous collaboration between Lance and Chris titled "The Lance Armstrong Performance Program - 7 Weeks to the Perfect Ride" left off. The Ultimate Ride provides enough detail in the areas of goal setting, proper training routines, nutrition, and overall bike and body awareness that I constantly pick it up and refer to it as a reference tool before and after a ride. If you have constant pain after a ride there is a chart in there to break down the causes of such pains. If you want to know how to eat and drink in preparation of a race or long ride or what is best to eat and drink for recovery after the ride, it is in there. If you want to learn to climb better, it is in there. Riders of all levels will find nuggets of information that will make them a better cyclist.

Rating:
Summary: Ultimate Ride by Carmichael
Review: This work is excellent for anyone planning to engage in
amateur cycling. The book explains the dynamics of goal setting,
resistence training, skills honing, peaking and aerobic
energy to deliver maximum oxygenation throughout the body.
The author shows how to customize a training scheme for each
athlete. He explains how group rides quicken the general speed
of the workout. Later on, he explains how carbo-loading helps
to boost glycogen while increasing insulin concentration,
growth hormones and the absorption of testosterone. The work
opens up a whole new dimension to a working out regimen.
I would supplement this work with a professional trainer or
knowledgable workout partner.