The Cyclist's Training Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Training Guide

Written by Joe Friel

Narrated by Brian Arens

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the best-selling and most comprehensive guide for aspiring and experienced cyclists.

Joe Friel is the most trusted coach in the world and his proven cycling training program has helped hundreds of thousands find success in the sport.

Joe has completely rewritten this new 5th Edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible to incorporate new training principles and help athletes train smarter than ever.

The Cyclist's Training Bible equips cyclists of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day.

With this all-new audio edition, Joe will guide you to develop your own personalized cycling training program and:

• Train with the right intensity and volume
• Gain maximum fitness from every workout
• Change your training plan over the course of the season
• Make up for missed workouts and avoid overtraining
• Build muscular endurance with a new approach to strength training
• Improve body composition with smarter nutrition

The Cyclist's Training Bible is the world's most trusted guide to cycling training. Get stronger, smarter, and faster with this audio version of the bible of the sport.

This audio edition adds emphasis to personalizing training plans, incorporates new power meter techniques, improves on ways to develop technique, updates the strength training approach, speeds recovery for busy athletes, and cuts through the noisy volume of training data to focus athletes on the numbers that mean the most to better performance. The Cyclist's Training Bible is skillfully narrated by Brian Arens, an Audible listener favorite.

All training plans, exercises, and graphics are included in the supplementary PDF.

Please note: The audio refers to an Appendix B that is available only as the final chapter of the audiobook, not in the accompanying PDF.

©2018 Joe Friel. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
• Release date: Jun 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9781666671223

Joe Friel

With a masters degree in exercise science, Joe Friel was a marathoner and running coach throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. After his first triathlon in 1983 and falling in love with the sport he began coaching multisport athletes becoming one of the first triathlon coaches in the country. The following year he opened a triathlon store in Ft. Collins, Colorado—probably the first in the world. Throughout the 1980s his race management company organized several triathlons in Colorado. He left retail and race management in 1987 to focus on coaching. The athletes he coached for over 30 years ranged from novice to high-performance amateur to professional to Olympian. In 1997, he was a founding member of the USA Triathlon Coaches Association. He served as co-chair in 1999-2000. In 2000, he attended the Sydney Olympics to assist with team preparation. The following year he was the coach of team USA for the World Triathlon Championships. Throughout the 2000s he was a frequent speaker at USAT coach seminars. He wrote 17 books on training, the most notable being The Triathlete’s Training Bible, which is now in its 5th edition and translated into 15 languages. It remains the best-selling book in the world on triathlon training. In 1999, he co-founded TrainingPeaks, online training software for endurance athletes. As an athlete he competed in hundreds of events including national and world championships, was an All-American Age Group Triathlete several times and a USAT-regional multisport champion. He stopped competing after a bike crash in 2014 restricted range of shoulder movement. He continues to present at triathlon camps and clinics for triathletes and coaches around the world. Joe currently lives and trains in the mountains of northern Arizona and is working on his 18th book—this one for coaches.