Cody Waite is a professional athlete and owner of Sessions:6 Sport Performance. Along with his wife Kathy, he works with athletes of all backgrounds and disciplines to optimize their performance. With over 20 years of experience in bike racing and triathlon (as well as a USAT 2 Coaching certification) Cody brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. His signature Sessions:6 program focuses on the whole athlete, rather than just one or two specific areas. Cody will be going into more detail in coming blogs, but for now, here's an overview of what he's all about:Â
Interested in triathlon, but don't know where to start?
Whether you're considering sprint, XTERRA, or Ironman distance, professional triathlete Branden Rakita breaks down the basics to get you going in the right direction.
Cyclocross races aren’t that long—30 to 60 minutes depending on your category—but there are thousands of decisions to make in that concise amount of time. During a race you’re constantly assessing when to draft vs lead, which line to take around a corner, whether to ride or run, when to attack. The more automatic and instinctive those decisions are, the better. Experience over years of racing certainly helps with making these decisions on the fly. However, regardless of your level of expertise, the pre-ride is another essential component to informing and pre-determining race decisions. Here are a few tips to make your pre-rides effective:
The stationary bike trainer is one of the best tools in your training arsenal.
The highly controlled environment provided by a stationary trainer makes it one of the most effective ways to improve your cycling power.
The trainer allows your workouts to be guided by variables like time, gearing, cadence, power and heart rate, making it much easier to execute precise, repeatable intervals.
In my previous post (The S:6 Testing Protocol, Part 1) I talked about the importance of testing to track the progress of your training. Through testing we look to see improvements in power outputs at specific interval durations over 6-12 weeks between testing.
