Ride Your Way Lean: The Ultimate Plan for Burning Fat and Getting Fit on a Bike »

SELENE YEAGER is a trusted authority on training, nutrition, and weight loss for Bicycling. She is the author of several books and writes regularly for Runner’s World, Prevention, Shape, and Self. She lives in Emmaus, PA.

Bicycling’s resident Fit Chick delivers a weight-loss plan designed to help readers lose 30, 50, or even 100 pounds by riding a bike and eating sensibly

Forget gym memberships and running shoes. The best way to lose weight is on a bike. In Ride Your Way Lean, Bicycling magazine columnist Selene Yeager provides readers with a comprehensive cycling plan that allows them to shed fat, streamline their bodies, and hone their skills on a bike. Cycling is gentle on the joints, easy to do with friends and family, and burns literally thousands of calories without being a bore or cause for suffering.

A weight-loss program for people who want to drop pounds of fat while learning a new sport, this book offers training plans that turbocharge metabolism along with complementary nutritional advice. Each chapter is seasoned with anecdotal tips, success stories, pitfalls, and other advice from real people who have ridden themselves lean.

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction vii

1 The Facts on Fat: Why we gain weight so easily and how to lose it the same way 1

2 Gearing up for the Road to Weight Loss: From your bike to your butt-everything you need for your cycling pleasure 22

3 Get Fit Faster: How to use your bike as the ultimate weight-loss tool 37

4 Ride it off: All the plans you need for all the weight you want to lose 53

5 Eat to Lose: Eat to ride. Ride to eat. Shed pounds by doing both 84

6 Take it inside: Make those rides to "nowhere" take you somewhere great 121

7 Off-the-Bike Training: Rev your metabolism, get stronger, ride faster, have more fun 141

8 Keeping it Off: Once the weight is gone, keep it gone for good 190

Index 200