If you want to be half decent on a bike, it helps if you?re fit. In fact, if you want to be a world champion, you need to be fit. Properly fit. That?s why all the professional racers of this world seem to spend their life in the gym? or at least tweeting about being in the gym anyway. Us normal people though, probably aren?t ever going to be world champions. Nor do we need Olympic athlete levels of fitness. And so, if you ask me, the best way to improve your ?bike fitness? is by simply riding bikes.

Because let?s face it, who actually enjoys sweating their tits off, pumping iron in the gym" Nobody really. I would suggest that most of the people that say they do enjoy it are full of shit. They’re just saying it to look cool. And they probably spend most of their time in the gym taking pictures of themselves, anyway. No, it?s not enjoyable.
And what can you really gain by going to the gym" Apart from the selfies and stuff (i.e. the germs)" There are machines for this, that and the other that claim to build, strengthen and tone specific muscle groups. That’s all well and good, but there isn?t a machine in existence that targets them all. Well not in a gym, anyway.

When you?re flat out on a 1,000cc superbike or giving it the berries on an MX bike though, you will be using them all. Well most of them, anyway. Imagine the time you?d have to spend in the gym looking for a machine that simulates the arm-pump you get in the first session o...