Think small
First, the bad news. ‘New Year’s resolutions don’t work,’ says bike fit guru and former British Cycling physio Phil Burt. ‘Research strongly shows that trying to make big changes inevitably ends in failure.’
But there is something you can do. ‘Aim instead for small, incremental changes within a sensible plan. So identify the goal, work a plan out of how to get there with sensible changes, and implement it. I’d apply this to my world of bike fit but also almost any aspect of weight loss or performance improvement in cycling.’
Work on your cadence
‘What you do this winter can really make or break your year,’ says Hunter Allen, founder and CEO of). ‘There are some vital components to creating a good winter training programme, and one of them is using a power meter for focussed workouts using wattage and cadence.’
