Hi there.
For our customers in the northern hemisphere, we hope the new season finds
you well and ready to enjoy some of your planned cycling or triathlon
events! Likewise, for our southern neighbours we hope your season is
finishing on a high note, and we suspect you will be looking at new ways to
improve next year.
The coaches at www.ergvideo.com and www.onlinebikecoach.com have
provided a series of articles to show you how to use ErgVideo and your
CompuTrainer for your peak (or "taper") training phase. We have a separate
article for Long Course triathlon, Short Course Triathlon, and Road Racing.
For our southern market, we have a new
base-training article you will be interested in reading. You may get a similar
announcemnet from our soouthern distributers.
Here is an excerpt from the long-course triathlon
peaking article:
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A Peak Training
Phase with ErgVideoTM: Long Course Triathlon
Edition.
Currently at 32
titles, the ErgVideoTM collection is a complete (and expanding)
library that will meet your training needs throughout the year. When the
warm-weather beckons, we all love to enjoy the great outdoors from atop our
saddle and behind our bars. Nevertheless, when it comes time to be serious about
your goal event, you should find ways to guarantee that critical workouts during
your "peak" (or "taper") phase will be executed correctly. These need to be done
on‑time and on-intensity, according to your improving levels of freshness and
"fastness". Unpleasant or uncomfortable weather conditions should not derail
your plan. You must often resist distractions from less‑disciplined training
partners or those who are on a different training schedule. These friends (or
your spouse) can turn your sessions into crazy‑fast hammerfests, social doodles,
or anything BUT what you have on your own plan! The ErgVideo product enables you
to achieve all these things, and it even lets you train with that partner, safe
in the knowledge that your training targets will be
met.
If you are still unfamiliar with ErgVideo, we invite
you to visit http://www.ergvideo.com to read-up on how ErgVideo enhances your
CompuTrainerTM training experience. You can visit PezCyclingNews.com
for an independent review: http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=5477.
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The articles continue with a detailed example
peak-or base training phases with selected ErgVideos, and they introduce
you to some sophisticated free web-tools to help you customize your training. We
also include sections describing ErgVideo to those who have yet to discover it,
as well as how to train with ErgVideo using the online tools.
We are making the articles available for
download in .pdf format from our website:
http://www.ergvideo.com/images/PeakTrainingWithErgVideo_Road
Racing.pdf for Cycling road racing.
Please have a look at this exciting new development
for your CompuTrainer-based training.
Paul Smeulders and David Stevenson, ErgVideo
Inc.