The Podium Performance Pyramid 🔼 This is the framework I created to build, deliver and monitor athlete development programs. The PODIUM PERFORMANCE PYRAMID has three points: 💪 PHYSICAL 🧠 PSYCHOLOGICAL … the outcome: 🚲💨 PERFORMANCE Within the PYRAMID lie multiple elements, that can be broken into physical or psychological components. Here are a few examples […]
What’s up mountain bikers? It’s Coach Adam here! One of the greatest advantages you can have during racing season is to be well prepared. Preparation is KEY to riding your best race and to minimizing potential pitfalls, while you are out there on the track. So today, I’m going to share with you my top […]
Well, it has certainly been quite some time since I have been on the start line at a cross country mountain bike race. I quit racing XC a long time ago. I lost the fire. You see, you just can’t fake it if you don’t have that burning desire to crush it on the race […]
Let’s Ride! Come ride with me and let’s smash a lap of the new 2017 Canada Cup XC course at Bear Mountain! Get ready for a guided tour of my backyard trails that have become the course for the 2017 Powerade Bear Mountain Canada Cup XC Race. As a guy who was Canada Cup Champion […]
The Cycling Co. and Bear Mountain Resort have partnered to offer a free kids’ Discover Mountain Biking program on Sunday February 12 (Family Day Weekend). A child’s bike is their first taste of freedom and we want to make that experience as fun and awesome as possible! Kids feel their first sense independence when they […]
Part art, part science is what it takes to dress for riding in the pacific coastal winter. Now, we have it pretty good here on Vancouver Island; I grew up in Calgary. Not only is Calgary quite a bit farther north, it sits at about 4000 ft above sea level. I spent months riding in […]