The Time-Crunched Cyclist from coach Chris Carmichael and CTS (Carmichael Training Systems) aims to reveal the fastest way to get fit for bike racing, century rides, gravel grinders, cyclocross, Gran Fondos, and ultraendurance mountain bike events. With elite cycling coach Chris Carmichael’s innovative, time-saving approach, ‘busy cyclists will develop fitness, speed, and power in just 6 hours a week’.
Now powered by Strava, the updated third edition of The Time-Crunched Cyclist training program taps into the most popular cycling social network to help cyclists get fired up to crush their workouts, one segment at a time. The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Race-Winning Fitness in 6 Hours a Week is now available in bookstores, bike shops, and online from velopress.com.
Through his popular CTS endurance coaching service, Carmichael noticed that many busy cyclists are unable to make performance gains using conventional training methods; ‘they simply don’t have enough time to train’. So, CTS developed a new approach – the Time-Crunched Training Program – to help cyclists achieve competitive fitness and power without the impossible time demands of traditional training methods.
The Time-Crunched Cyclist shows cyclists how to build fitness on a realistic schedule by tapping the power of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts. Cyclists learn the science behind this alternative approach to training before performing the CTS field tests to get a baseline reading of their fitness.
Nine comprehensive training plans include effective time-crunched workouts, nutrition guidelines and strength training to develop the speed and endurance for a wide variety of cycling races and events. The Time-Crunched Cyclist now offers time-crunched training plans for: criteriums, road races, and cyclocross; century rides and Gran Fondos; gravel racing and ultraendurance mountain biking plans; and plans for bike commuters.
The new third edition integrates Strava, the popular ride tracking and analysis program. Powered by Strava, the Time-Crunched program becomes interactive, social, highly motivating — and focuses riders on the training data that matters most. This edition also adds the Time-Crunched Diet, a sports nutrition approach designed to help riders optimize their power-to-weight ratio with new guidelines on eating behaviours and recipes from chefs Michael Chiarello and Matt Accarrino. A new chapter on hydration and managing heat stress will show athletes simple ways to avoid overheating that lead to better performance.
The Time-Crunched Cyclist: Race-Winning Fitness in 6 Hours a Week, 3rd Ed.
Chris Carmichael and Jim Rutberg
Paperback with two-colour interior with charts, tables, and figures throughout.
7″ x 9″, 440 pp., US$21.95, 9781937715502
Chris Carmichael was an Olympian and a professional cyclist before beginning his career as a coach, best-selling author and entrepreneur. He has coached elite cyclists since 1990, was recognized as the US Olympic Committee Coach of the Year, and was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2003.
Jim Rutberg is the Media, Marketing, and Editorial Director and a coach for CTS. He has co-authored 8 books on training and sports nutrition: The Time-Crunched Cyclist, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning, The Time-Crunched Triathlete, The Ultimate Ride, Chris Carmichael’s Food for Fitness, Chris Carmichael’s Fitness Cookbook, The Carmichael Training Systems Cyclist’s Training Diary, and 5 Essentials for a Winning Life. In addition to books, he has written multiple blog and magazine articles. His work has appeared in Road Bike Action, Bicycling, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, VeloNews, Inside Triathlon, and more.
