This all-new Cyclist's Training Bible presents the latest discoveries in cycling science, data analysis, daily planning, and skills development to help you create a personal training plan for success.
In the all-new edition of The Cyclist's Training Bible, Joe Friel applies the latest cycling science, data-driven training, and race preparation strategies to help you develop a personalized plan for success. Whether you're training for road races, criteriums, time trials, gravel races, or simply looking to improve your climbing, sprinting, endurance, or recovery, this comprehensive cycling book has you covered.
Inside, you'll find powerful tools and techniques, including:
- Power Meter Training: Use cutting-edge metrics to optimize every ride
- TSS-Based Workouts: Apply the Training Stress Score to monitor load and performance
- Custom Cycling Plans: Tailor your program to match your strengths and eliminate limiters
- Cycling Field Tests: Boost your training precision with FTP, FTHR, FAC, and Sprint Power assessments
- Peak Performance Tapering: Learn how to reduce fatigue while maintaining race-day readiness
- Annual Training Plans: Structure your daily, weekly, and monthly goals for consistent progress
- Cyclist Strength Training: Improve power output and explosiveness with sport-specific strength work
- Targeted Cycling Workouts: Build your aerobic endurance, muscular force, anaerobic capacity, and sprint energy
Whether you're a competitive cyclist, gravel racer, or time trial specialist, The Cyclist's Training Bible is the best cycling training resource available-fully updated to reflect the most advanced principles in modern endurance sport.
"Joe Friel is arguably the most experienced personal cycling coach in the U.S., and his book The Cyclist's Training Bible has become, well... the Bible of the sport." — Bicycling magazine
"Joe Friel is one of the world’s foremost experts on endurance sports." — Outside magazine
"The Cyclist’s Training Bible will have you systematically training just as world-class cyclists do. If you scrupulously follow its guidelines, I'm confident your racing performance will dramatically improve." — Tudor Bompa, PhD
"To say that Joe Friel knows a thing or two about how to ride a bicycle and stay fast would be a severe understatement. " — Road Bike Action
"I find Friel's book a treasure of information for cyclists of all levels." — Andy Hampsten, 1988 Giro d'Italia winner, 1992 Tour de France stage winner at Alpe d'Huez
"One of the most trusted coaches in triathlon." — LAVA magazine
"Nothing else comes close to The Cyclist’s Training Bible's comprehensive approach to planning out a season, creating a training schedule and incorporating diet and resistance training to an overall plan." — BikeRumor.com
"Packed with worksheets, charts, visuals and a dense index and references for further reading, The Cyclist’s Training Bible is an arsenal of encyclopedic information for ambitious riders." — DailyPeloton.com
"The Cyclist’s Training Bible has become a cyclist's best chance at achieving their goals. This is the ultimate manual for growth as a cyclist." — BicycleSmile.com
