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Do You Want to Ride to 100 - and Beyond?BIKE FOR LIFE!Now with training plans, worldwide adventures, and more than 200 photosRide a century when you turn a century: that was the promise Bike for Life offered when it was first published. A decade later, this blueprint for using cycling to achieve exceptional longevity, fitness, and overall well-being has helped tens of thousands of cyclists to ride longer and stronger. Now, nationally-known fitness journalist and lifelong endurance road and mountain biker Roy M. Wallack builds upon his comprehensive Bike for Life plan with even more practical tips and strategies to keep you riding to 100 - and beyond.Fully updated, revised, and illustrated, Bike for Life features:- Cutting-edge workout strategies for achieving best-ever fitness at any age- Science-based 8- and 16-week Century training schedules- A radical new workout method that'll make you fly up the hills- An anti-aging plan to revive muscularity, strength, and reaction time- An exclusive 10-step Yoga for Cyclists routine- Strategies to fix "cyclist's knee" and "biker's back"- Advice on avoiding cycling-related impotence and osteoporosis- Ways to survive mountain lions, bike-jackers, poison ivy, and headwinds- Handling skills and bike-fit advice from famous coaches- Tips on staying motivated with worldwide adventures and challenges- The Bike for Life hall of fame: stories of amazing riders in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and upWith oral-history interviews and profiles of the biggest names of the sport, including: John Howard, Gary Fisher, Rebecca Rusch, Ned Overend, Tinker Juarez, Juli Furtado, Marla Streb, Missy Giove, Johnny G, Eddie B, Mike Sinyard, and Rich "The Reverend" White.
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Roy M. Wallack once biked from the sea to the summit of a 13,796-ft. Hawaiian volcano in a day, debated persistence hunting with a barefoot Kalahari tribesman in a loincloth, and talked his way out of the gulag when he got caught illegally in the USSR. Now, he's trying to figure out how to run and ride until he's at least 100 years old ("For proof, get back with me in 50 years," he says) . A long-time L.A. Times fitness columnist , he's written for many publications (Outside, Bicycling, Runner's World, Competitor, Muscle & Fitness, Consumer's Digest, and more) , been an editor (Triathlete, Bicycle Guide) , and never turns down an opportunity to do a crazy athletic event he isn't trained for (which is why he's the World's Second-Fittest Man--read on) . Roy's got 7 books: his bestseller Bike for Life: How to Ride to 100 (2015, 2005) , a cycling-based longevity fitness plan; Fire Your Gym (2013; a 9-week super-fitness program mixing CrossFit and endurance) ; Barefoot Running Step By Step (2011; best-seller in the minimalist-running genre) ; Run for Life (2009) -- longevity through running) ; Be a Better Runner (2011; cutting-edge training tips) ; and The Traveling Cyclist: 20 Worldwide Tours (1991, Doubleday) , which describes his bike trips around the world in the '80s, including the first-ever into the Soviet Union, in 1988.
FITNESS FOR THE LONG RUN -- AND LONG RIDE
As an unremarkable Baby Boomer runner/rider/triathlete/tennis player determined not to slow down, this former collegiate wrestler started researching athletic longevity when he hit 40 -- and struck paydirt. Roy "broke the news" on several important quality-of-life, fitness-performance, and injury-prevention stories that became pillars of his books and common fitness knowledge, including the scary cycling/osteoporosis connection (Bicycling, 2003) ; the injury-reducing effect of the Pose Method (Runner's World, 2004) and barefoot running (Men's Journal, 2005) ; the corrective, career-saving potential of postural therapy for runners and other athletes (Competitor, 2001) ; the untapped economy, power, and knee-friendliness of "butt-centric" pedaling (Bicycling, 2004) ; and the fountain-of-youth effect of all-out intervals and rapid-contraction weight training (Outside, 2006, and Men's Fitness, 2002) , which strengthen the body by initiating release of hormones such as HGH. He was also one of the first to report on Crossfit, the revolutionary, and now-wildly popular high-intensity fitness program (Men's Journal, 2005, and the L.A. Times, 2006) , and introduced the groundbreaking concept of a harmful training-zone "Black Hole," discovered by renowned sports researchers Seiler and Esteve-Lanao, in the December 2010 issue of Outside magazine.
Using himself as a "guinea pig" for the training, technique, and nutrition stories he write
