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The Midlife Cyclist: The Road Map for the +40 Rider Who Wants to Train Hard, Ride Fast and Stay Healthy Paperback – Aug. 24 2021

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With the help of medical experts, leading coaches, ex-professionals, and pro-team doctors, cycling biomechanics pioneer Phil Cavell produces a practical guide for mature cyclists who want to stay healthy, avoid injury, and maximize their achievement levels.

Midlife Cyclist offers a gold standard road-map for the mature cyclist who aims to train, perform and even race at the highest possible level. Cycling has seen a participation uplift unprecedented in any sport, especially in the 40, 50 and 60-year-old age groups. These athletes are the first statistically significant cohort to maintain, or even begin, genuine athletic performance beyond middle-age. But, just because we can continue to tune the engine into old age, does that mean that we should? And, what do these training efforts do to the aging human chassis? This book answers those questions and offers a guide to those elongating their performance window.

Using case studies and expert contributions from all aspects of the sport, Midlife Cyclist looks at cycling as an aging person's exercise of choice, the physical implications of hard training, and the use of sport medication and specific training in combating them. It also considers the age-specific questions raised, including what happens to performance as we mature? Will the bike specifications alter as our bodies change? Should we refine our riding technique and how do we best deploy the psychological advantages of being older riders?

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“A must-read... this brilliant book shows you that getting older doesn't mean getting slower!” - Alan Murchison, The Cycling chef and masters cycling champion

“Phil is eminently qualified to write The Midlife Cyclist. Well, he is certainly old enough.” - Fabian Cancellara, Tour de France rider and two-time Olympic champion

“A road-map for the mature cyclist” - Cycling News

“Phil's book can help you be as good today as you always said you were” - Carlton Kirby, Eurosport commentator

“I am blown away by the level of detail Phil Cavell brings to his work” - Elinor Barker MBE, multiple world champion and Olympic gold medallist

“An amazing accomplishment... a simple-to-understand précis of your midlife as a cyclist – you won't want to put it down.” - Phil Liggett, TV cycling commentator

“I’m determined to grow old gracefully in lycra, and Phil Cavell has been helping me to do it successfully for years.” - Gary Kemp

“The Midlife Cyclist is entertaining, insightful, well-researched and vital reading for all youngsters over forty who have a love affair with the bike.” - Norman Foster

“A must for the older athlete, it's motivated me to train harder again.” - Sir Rocco Forte

“The Midlife Cyclist is a triumph” - Cycling Plus

“Are you middle-aged? Are you slower than you used to be, more tired? Read this book. It will help you.” - The Cycling Independent

About the Author

Phil Cavell is joint founder and CEO of Cyclefit, Europe's first centre devoted to modern bike-fitting and cycling-analysis. He was a member of the pioneering bike-fitting group known as 'The Sultans of Fit'. Cyclefit are leader in the field, hosting events featuring the best minds in cycling science, biomechanics, injury and cycling analysis. Phil is a consultant to pro-racing team Trek Racing and women's team Team Drops, he has lectured at the Royal Society of Medicine and has contributed to books The Science of the Tour de France: Training Secrets of the World's Best Cyclists (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Fitter, Further, Faster: Get Fit for Sportives and Road Riding (Bloomsbury, 2013). He also wrote The Rough Guide to Cycling in London.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Sport (Aug. 24 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472961382
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472961389
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.37 x 2.16 x 23.24 cm
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I had been thinking about The Midlife Cyclist for a while. We had been tracking a trend at Cyclefit for over a decade or so, where our clients were both getting older but also training and riding harder - expecting more of both body and bike. But that provokes a fundamental first principles question - what actually happens when you try and race-tune middle-aged individuals using the bicycle as the vehicle of expression? Greater health, life-span and happiness? or injury, illness and disappointment? Nobody knew for sure - The Midlife Cyclist is the first search for answers.

I spend most of my working days helping amateur and professional riders be happier in the saddle achieving their goals - accordingly the Midlife is my accumulated knowledge on the subject. But I was also fortunate to have access to an extended family of cardiologists, team doctors, elite-sports physios and academics.

I hope you enjoy the book. I look forward to meeting out on the road/trail

Phil

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Michel
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written!
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2024
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Just another must read book !
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Hans Nilsson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great.book
Reviewed in Germany on July 30, 2023
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The only book I gave come across that focuses on the ageing athlete of any sport. It is not just for cyclists.
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Stephen Herlihy
5.0 out of 5 stars Relevant and insightful for all us mid life cyclists
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2021
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This book arrived whilst I was being checked for what were thought to be long Covid impacts on my heart which transpired to be coronary disease which pre dated Covid.
This book looks widely and informatively at the impacts of cycling on the health of mid life cyclists and although there is nothing to suggest my condition is cycling related, the book’s discussions on the heart , was incredibly useful in understanding my own position.

It provides sensible guidance on training and for those of us in the U.K, on utilising the strengths of the NHS should we have an accident on our bikes or other wise. The author puts himself in our shoes as he talks to the relevant health experts and condenses their advice to make it relevant and easy to understand
My one caveat is that an underlying theme in the book is that we are the first generation where life expectancy is beyond 50 so we are doing things our predecessors did not do. The life expectancy thing is a red herring as life expectancy has always been close to ‘three score and ten ‘ if one survived childhood. However, his key point that we are the first generation to keenly exercise in later years is entirely valid, as his suggestion that the impact of ‘serious’ cycling in later life on our health is still uncharted.

A really good read, and gives one much to think about.
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john mcmonnies
5.0 out of 5 stars thoroughly rewarding read
Reviewed in Australia on October 9, 2022
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I have wandered around a lot of physio/medical approaches to just cycling and this is by far the most illuminating
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stric
4.0 out of 5 stars If anything, I wish it were a bit more technical
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022
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Some other readers complained that the book was too technical. But as a serious bicycle rider, I found this book to be a great synthesis of many ideas and knowledge that we cyclists already know, except now, it's all in one place. The book is easy to read and it's written both for those who know a ting or two about cycling and those who don't. I wish it were illustrated and a bit more technical because it would be even more helpful, more interesting and informative to the readers.
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JG AMER
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting + amusing to read
Reviewed in Germany on October 6, 2021
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interesting + amusing to read
well written, not too "stodgy"
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