Training

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From RPE and EF to dFRC and more. The world of training is full of acronyms, but which ones should you be paying attention to?

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From muscle fibres and aerodynamics to peak power and aerobic capacity, knowing where your sprint strengths lie will help shape the finish in your favour, explains training expert Jim van den Berg

Member Exclusive Zach Nehr investigates the potentially hidden risks behind heat training – from the obvious to the surprising – and how cyclists can do it safely to reap performance rewards

Member Exclusive In her latest Cyclingnews column, Cat Ferguson recounts the battle to understand her body as the demands of professional cycling ramped up, where it went wrong, and how her perspective has shifted since

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Reducing your training load ahead of a race or event is widely considered a tried-and-tested training technique across endurance sports, but do the studies align with the demands of road cycling? Cyclingnews and JOIN assess the art of tapering

Member Exclusive Zone 2 training is one of cycling's many buzzwords, but what actually is it, and how have the pros turned an 'easy tempo all-day' training technique into a structured and potentially race-winning performance strategy?

In-depth For all of cycling's health benefits, bone density isn't one of them, so how are the pros combating the effects that a career in the saddle has on their bones, and what can we learn from them?

Member Exclusive In the first of Cyclingnews' women's health series, as health-tracking technology becomes ever-present in cycling, how are female cyclists using it to monitor their health, and is all this data actually beneficial to fine-tuning our training?