Blog - Beyond The Mud

Record levels of active people in England – Sport England Study Reveals

by hattenburrow | Oct 20, 2019 | Pilates

The highest ever levels of activity have been recorded by Sport England’s latest Active Lives Adult Survey, with 1 million more people physically active than when the survey began. According to Sport England, data gathered from 180,000 respondents (aged 16+) in the 12...

How To Stay Motivated With Mountain Biking In Winter

by helenelisabethredding | Oct 18, 2019 | Biking Adventures

As the weather worsens, it can be easy to be turned off riding, waiting for the weather to warm up. Here’s how to stay motivated in the winter months.

Guest Post – Carrianne’s Quantocks Adventure

by hattenburrow | Oct 9, 2019 | Adventure, Biking Adventures

At Beyond the Mud we want to enable as much riding as possible! Which is why we started guest blog posts, these blog posts let you hear about riding in new places from other passionate mountain bikers and hopefully give you some ideas on where you could go on your...

Mountain Bike Coaching Tip – Heavy Feet, Light Hands

by hattenburrow | Oct 3, 2019 | Coaching, How to

You may think the best way to improve your riding is a lighter bike… more travel or other fancy up grades. Yes, these may make your bike lighter, more able to soak up bigger impacts etc but they don’t make YOU a better rider. A simple way to improve your riding is to...

Award-Winning Biking Family Opens Snowdonia Cycle Track

by helenelisabethredding | Sep 26, 2019 | Uncategorized

Cyclists looking for great places to go on mountain bike weekends might be tempted to head to Wales after a family has opened new tracks in Snowdonia.

Strength Building ‘As Important’ As Cardio

by helenelisabethredding | Sep 13, 2019 | Biking Adventures, Pilates

Keeping active is important as we get older but often people forget about strength training and building muscle in favour of cardiovascular exercise like running, swimming, rowing and so on. Ideally, you should aim to focus on both if you can - something that has just...

Call Issued For Cycle Access To Public Footpaths

by helenelisabethredding | Aug 27, 2019 | Biking Adventures

Olympic gold medallist Chris Boardman, has issued a call to reform right of way legislation that bans cyclists from over two-thirds of the public footpaths.

Starting your mountain bike adventure

by hattenburrow | Aug 7, 2019 | Coaching, How to

Starting your mountain bike adventure You don’t need mountains to go mountain biking. Any off-road trail can be an exciting adventure, a brilliant way of seeing our beautiful country, at the same time as getting fit. Mountain biking is an exhilarating sport which...