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Mixing up your training is key to keeping exercise fun.  Varying your cycling workouts with other activities can also reduce your risk of injury, improve your overall fitness through active recovery, give you a mental break, and give you an opportunity to learn something new.

Overuse injuries are common in cycling, running and swimming.  These activities promote doing the same range of motion over and over again.  However, injuries are not inevitable.  Most injuries happen because..........

See what makes our trainer great.  Watch the Lemond Fitness g-force UT video.

Did you know the average person burns 450 calories in 45 minutes during a group cycling class? So what are you waiting for?

Try a class today - on a LeMond RevMaster of course - at your local health club.

Hot Tip: Arrive five minutes early for your first class so your instructor can answer any questions and help you with bike adjustments. Make sure you let her know about any injuries that you have so she can help you modify some of the moves. During class, be sure to let your instructor know if you are having trouble with the resistance knob or the general technique. If the class is too intense, just pedal slower or take the tension down.

Energize and improve your indoor cycling with some winter running workouts. This is a great way to get in shape for spring training rides and to maximize your fitness level. Go for runs in parks, on trails, or in the snow. For some great places to run in your neighborhood, checkout www.mapmyrun.com.

Start slow if you are new at this. The goal with running is to build your volume and intensity and minimize your chance for injury.  Listen to your body.  Most running injuries happen when you run too long or too fast without the proper build and recovery.  One hard run per week is plenty.

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LEMOND FITNESS IS PROUD TO HELP TRAIN ALL OUR OLYMPIC ATHLETES -140 RevMasters are at Olympic training centers helping give the athletes the competitve edge - for as Greg always tells us about competing - "it doesn't get any easier, you just get faster ..."

Follow the 2010 Olympics with us at http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Check out this cool retro video about Greg LeMond's Tour de France winning handlebar design. A true innovator. You can see this same innovation in Greg's new handlebar design featured on our RevMaster’s and the g-force UT bike trainer.

Yesterday I had an epic bike ride in the rain forests of Cairns. I had been referred to Dan's Mountain Bike Adventures by the Australian couple who I rode the day before my race...

When the gun sounded we hit the water for the 1.5 K swim. I stuck to my plan of using the swim as the warm up for the rest of my day.

I was planning on doing the Team USA training bike ride today, but ended up riding with an Australian couple. When I went to get onto the elevator this morning there was a young wife and husband from Sydney...

Tonight was the parade of nations and opening ceremonies. It was a truly amazing event. There were 6000 athletes from 62 countries. The evening started out with the parade of nations. The USA was the last country to enter so we were able to watch all of the other countries enter.