Ride Inside

Praise for Ride Inside "In Ride Inside, Friel and Rutberg give concrete steps to take to ensure you're building fitness rather than wearing yourself out with endless miles on the trainer." -VeloNews Tech Podcast "As coauthors of the book Ride Inside, Friel and Rutberg have examined every aspect of indoor cycling-from the equipment and training benefits to the evolution of what is fast becoming a sport in its own right." -Triathlete's Fitter & Faster podcast "It wasn't long ago that riding inside was something most of us did only when the weather was bad, or the days too dark, or we were pressed for time. Flash forward to today and indoor cycling is quickly becoming a discipline many people focus on for its own sake. In Ride Inside, Joe Friel and Jim Rutberg explore indoor cycling and its many nuances." -Fast Talk Laboratories podcast "Ride Inside breaks down the latest indoor training tech and offers insights on how indoor training can improve your outdoor efforts." -Road Bike Action magazine "In the last 18 months, I have logged over 500 hours on my indoor trainer. It took me quite a long time to figure out the rules and the tools of riding inside. . . . Thanks to Joe Friel and Ride Inside, your learning curve will be much faster than mine." -Stephen Seiler, PhD, sports scientist "Anyone who has been in triathlon or cycling since the mid-'90s probably knows the name Joe Friel or his books. . . . His latest book is so on the pulse. Ride Inside is your training bible for indoor cycling." -Consummate Athlete Podcast

Joe Friel is the most trusted endurance sports coach in the world. He is the best-selling author of The Triathlete's Training Bible, The Cyclist's Training Bible, Fast After 50, Going Long, Your Best Triathlon, The Power Meter Handbook, and Your First Triathlon. His TrainingBible Coaching service is one of the most successful and respected in endurance sports. Joe has trained endurance athletes since 1980, including national champions, world championship contenders, and Olympic athletes in triathlon, duathlon, road cycling, and mountain biking. He is an elite-certified USA Triathlon and USA Cycling coach and holds a master's degree in exercise science. He conducts training and racing seminars around the world and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. He has also been active in business as the founder of Ultrafit, an association of coaching businesses; TrainingPeaks, a web-based software company; and TrainingBible Coaching. Jim Rutberg is the communications manager for Haute Route and the media director for Carmichael Training Systems. He is coauthor, with Chris Carmichael, of The Time-Crunched Cyclist, 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, 5 Essentials for a Winning Life, and innumerable web and magazine articles. His work has appeared in Bicycling, Outside, Men's Health, Men's Journal, VeloNews, Inside Triathlon, and more. A graduate of Wake Forest University and former elite cyclist, Rutberg lives in Colorado Springs with his wife, Leslie, and their two sons, Oliver and Elliot.

Foreword by Stephen Seiler, PhD Introduction 1. Why Ride a Bike Indoors? 2. Indoors and Outdoors: What's Different? 3. Indoor Cycling Equipment 4. Setting Up Your Space 5. Four Ways to Ride Inside 6. Fit and Fast, Indoors and Out 7. Purposeful Training, Indoors and Out 8. Intensity and the Indoor Workout 9. Putting It All Together Appendix: Indoor Workouts Acknowledgments References About the Authors