Latest articles by Hannah Reynolds
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Strength training for cyclists: do the gains really justify the time?
Find out if strength training for cyclists will benefit your cycling performance. Discover which exercises to do, how to build your strength training program and common mistakes to avoid
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Fix your feet and ride faster: here are the surprising ways looking after your feet will make you a better cyclist
Performance engineer at INEOS Grenadiers and current World Hour Record holder Bigham talks about the connection between feet, back pain and training consistency
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How much training is enough? The secrets to making long-term fitness progress
The key to making progress is to do just the right amount of training and no more. Hannah Reynolds sets out on a mission to quantify ‘enough’
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What do professional cyclists eat?
Learn from the pros to fuel your cycling performance, manage your weight and improve your health
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Eight ways to improve your cycling ready for the spring
Get your cycling off to a flyer — and begin spring as you mean to go on with these tips to maximise your cycling and fitness in the early season
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How to ride faster up short, steep hills (video)
Think tough climbing and you probably imagine the long, winding, hairpin ascents of the Alps. But for sheer brutality, the steep hills of the UK have few equals
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Cannondale Synapse Carbon review
Cannondale Synapse Carbon - Cannondale's cyclo-sportive specific offering for £1,199 with Athena groupset
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Cycling in Tenerife and the Mount Teide climb
We flew to the Spanish island of Tenerife to go riding on Mount Teide. It may be the preferred training destination of many Tour de France contenders - but the island has plenty to offer amateur folk too
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Job opportunity – join the Fitness Team
We're looking for a full-time fitness writer for our road bike magazines and rapidly growing website
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How to pace a long time trial (video)
Pacing is key when it comes to time trials: go off too fast and you'll fade, hold too much back and you'll be disappointed with your time. Here we look at pacing, efficient use of energy and nutrition strategies to help you perform to your best
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Can you perfect your pedalling?
Want to go faster? Push harder on the pedals! But what about honing the way you apply that pressure? Is it worth trying to improve your technique? Hannah Reynolds investigates
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Editor's letter: Farewell Cycling Active magazine
After seven great years, goodbye, and thanks
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How to build your personal roadmap to success
How do you draw your roadmap to success? Hannah Reynolds and Josephine Perry explain how to build your personal profile and turn self-knowledge into success
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Training made simple: How to get back to basics
Toggling through today's training sessions and their associated intricacies is almost as laborious an undertaking as the ride itself
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The ultimate route across France?
The new Lands End to John O’Groats with better riding, better wine and better weather
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What's the perfect BMI for a cyclist?
Body Mass Index, or BMI, is widely used to measure if you are a healthy weight… but does it work for bike riders?
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The Strava dilemma: Is it money well spent?
Now that Strava is charging £4 per month for full access to leaderboards, Hannah Reynolds assesses whether, in terms of motivation and training benefits, it’s money well spent
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Free entry to music festival... if you cycle there
Nozstock festival in Herefordshire on July 26-28 offering two free tickets if you cycle as a group of seven, and over 15 miles
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The questions you never dared ask a pro cyclist
As otherwordly as pro riders may seem, they’re only human and are just as prone to acts of stupidity as the rest of us, as CW found out...
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How to cycle in the wind: pro tips to help keep you upright
Former pro Roger Hammond explains how to deal with strength-sapping gusts
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How to ride no-handed
Riding ‘no-hands’ isn’t just for show-offs — it’s a genuinely useful racing skill
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Build your cycling strength with big gear efforts
Break up a long ride with these efforts to help build your power and leg strength
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Are you a Strava addict?
Are you painfully obsessed with KOMs and segment times? Bedevilled by ‘uh-oh’ notifications? Or is it all just healthy, competitive fun? We speak to some self-confessed Strava fanatics
