Fitness Cycling

Shannon Sovndal, MD, FACEP, is the owner and founder of Thrive Health and Fitness Medicine (Thrive HFM), an elite team of physicians, exercise physiologists, and athletes who provide clients with the highest level of personalized health care, life management, and fitness training. He is the director of trauma special operations development at Denver Health Medical Center and medical director at North Colorado Med Evac. He is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Boulder Community Hospital. From 2007 to 2013, Sovndal was a team physician for the Garmin-Slipstream professional cycling team. He worked as a physician at the General Clinical Research Center at the University of Colorado from 2004 to 2012. Before becoming a physician, Sovndal raced road bikes in the United States, winning the California/Nevada District Championship and many other road races and criteriums. Sovndal is the author of Fitness Cycling (Human Kinetics, 2013). He has written numerous sport-related articles and lectured on exercise-related topics. He attended medical school at Columbia University in New York, completed his residency at Stanford University in California and now lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Chapter 1 Setting Cycling Fitness Goals Chapter 2 Understanding Training Concepts Chapter 3 Measuring Cycling Fitness Chapter 4 Understanding Training Workload and Zones Chapter 5 Planning Your Program Chapter 6 Base-Building Workouts Chapter 7 Interval Workouts for Flat or Varied Terrain Chapter 8 Hill Workouts Chapter 9 Time Trial Workouts Chapter 10 Sprint Workouts Chapter 11 Stationary Bike Workouts Chapter 12 Off-Season Workouts Chapter 13 Equipping Yourself Chapter 14 Refining Bike Fit and Riding Techniques Chapter 15 Dealing With Common Cycling Problems