Jerry White
Recent articles by Jerry White
10 cycling New Year's resolutions for 2023 (and how to stick to them)
Aim high for your best year of cycling ever
How losing concentration affects your cycling performance
Filtering out the right information could mean the difference between a win and a wobbly
How riding in a group improves your performance
Training with others brings positive results
Training: Leader of the pack
Riding in a group is the best way to improve your performance, says Jerry White
Health: Stressing points
It's how you deal with it that matters
Imagine yourself better
Picturing yourself achieving your aims can help you achieve them
Face your fears
Overcome mental blocks and perform better
Psychology: Reasons to ride
Don’t just ride for the win or because you have to – ride for fun, says Jerry White, because happy cyclists keep riding for longer
Train your mind
Learning new techniques takes time and dedication...
Taking stock
It's time to assess your riding and focus your training effectively
Relaxation techniques
How to use visualisation to unwind
Training - Defining success
Success is a funny old thing to quantify. What for one rider can be a performance worthy of celebration, can for another be a cause of misery. Obviously, different riders should have different goals relative to their standar, but defining success for yourself is about reflecting on what motivates you and gaining an understanding of what to focus on in preparing for your riding.
Health - Nature or nurture?
One of the most pervasive questions facing psychology researchers, as with many other branches of science, concerns the degree to which a particular outcome is due to nature, and the extent to which it is the result of environmental factors
Technique: How to prepare for a big ride
Tips for success in late-summer epics
What gets you out on the bike?
Understanding your own sport psychology can be the key to finding the motivation to ride even more.
Technique - And relax...
Being able to 'calm down'or 'psych up' is as important in sport as it is in life.
Training - Very superstitious?
Don't waste time worrying about lucky socks, says Jerry White, concentrate on real reasons for good or bad performance. Superstitions are silly things - behaviours with no basis in logic but born of tradition or routine.
Training - Prepare yourself
When the days grow a little longer and the beginning of the season draws nearer, minds start to turn to those early events that will give you a sense of how your winter riding has gone.
Training - Psychology: successful thinking
After rides, it's always worth analysing your feelings about why the ride turned out the way it did for you