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REACH YOUR PEAK

01 Roll and ride

ou pedal. That’s what you do. But have you ever dug a little deeper into the pedal cycle? Visualised your sinewy lower-limb muscles generating increasing power through textbook souplesse? More specifically, focused on your legs’ capacity to reach their optimum via a pre-ride warm-up? No to all three? Well, it’s time to rethink your pedalling prep thanks to a recent paper in the that looked at whether static stretching or vibration foam rolling “induced greater changes in range of motion, functional performance and stiffness of

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