Take your cycling skills to the next level and become stronger, faster and bike fit with this free online course. Are you striving to enhance your cycling skills but not seeing the desired progress? Then, dive into this course and unlock your cycling potential. We cover everything from selecting the perfect bike to mastering road skills and preparing for time trial events. Learn how to reach peak physical condition, overcome training fatigue, prevent and manage cycling injuries and develop the skills and mental readiness required for a race.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Identify various types of cycle racing and styles of performance cyclists • Describe the different parts of a bicycle, their functions and the accessories of a bike • Distinguish the rules and strategies of road racing, track cycling and BMX racing • Discuss basic cycling tips and skills for better cycle handling and smooth riding • Outline the proper techniques of pedalling, cornering, braking and stopping • State the principles of cycling training • Recognise the effects of pedals, chains, derailleurs and air friction in time trial training • Review the different strengthening techniques for building core strength and muscular endurance • Explain how to improve performance by implementing motivation, dreams, goals, patience, commitment and consistency • Recall how body positioning, bike fit and eating habits affect cycling performance • Define fitness and fatigue and ways to avoid over-training • List different cycling injuries and ways to treat them |
| Course Code | 6487 |
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