Why it works: To improve your cycling performance, you need to build strong glutes and hamstrings. Tamir says this exercise is perfect for doing just that because the bridging movement focuses on strengthening the muscles in the back of your legs. It also offers shoulder mobility work.

How to do it:

1. Start seated, knees bent and feet planted, hands behind you on floor, fingers pointing away from you. Bring right hand to right shoulder. This is your starting position.
2. Squeeze glutes to lift hips up. As you rise up, reach right hand overhead toward left shoulder, twisting slightly at the torso.
3. Pause, squeezing core and glutes to stay solid (avoid arching back), then return to starting position.
4. Repeat for 20 seconds.
5. Then switch sides and repeat for another 20 seconds.

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2. Push-up to Superman to T Raise

Noam Tamir

Why it works: The push-up movement strengthens muscles in your upper body, Tamir says, while the superman strengthens the entire back of the body, and the T position improves mobility of the thoracic spine.

How to do it:

1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from head to heels.
2. Maintaining that straight line, bend elbows and slowly lower entire body to floor.
3. Take hands off floor, then extend arms.
4. Next, lift arms, chest, and legs off floor for superman.
5. Place feet and hands back down and press back up to plank.
6. Next, rotate to left, lifting left arm to a T position, pivoting on feet.
7. Rotate back to plank, hand back down to floor.
8. Repeat entire move, this time rotating to the right.
9. Continue alternating for 30 seconds.

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3. Single-Leg Deadlift With Rotation

Noam Tamir

Why it works: This exercise will help strengthen your posterior chain while you focus on maintaining your balance, Tamir says.

How to do it:

1. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, arms by sides.
2. Shift weight to right leg, and with a soft bend in right knee, hinge at the hips by sending butt back, lifting left leg behind you. Keep back flat, shoulders down, and core engaged as torso reaches toward floor and slightly rotates to the right, left hand reaching toward right foot.
3. Drive right foot into ground to stand back up, squeezing glutes.
4. Repeat for 30 seconds.
5. Then switch sides and repeat for another 30 seconds.

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4. Bear Crawl Hold With Shoulder Tap

Noam Tamir

Why it works: Not only will this move fire up your core, but it will also challenge you to resist rotating your torso as you tap your shoulders. This move helps cyclists build a stable core while creating endurance in the quads, which is important for rides, Tamir says.

How to do it:

1. Start on hands and knees, shoulders over shoulders and knees under hips. Keeping back flat, use core to lift knees off the ground a few inches. This is your starting position.
2. Lift right hand to tap left shoulder, then return to starting position.
3. Then lift left hand to tap right shoulder, then return to starting position.
4. Continue alternating for 30 seconds.

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5. Lateral Lunge

Noam Tamir

Why it works: Practicing this exercise will help you improve your glute strength. Tamir says cyclists should improve the mobility in the hips and adductors to help minimise injuries, and this move helps with just that.

How to do it:

1. Stand with feet together, arms by sides.
2. Take a big step out with right foot, sending hips back and bending knee, with knee and toes pointing forward. Keep left leg straight.
3. Drive through right foot to stand back up, stepping right foot back to left.
4. Repeat for 30 seconds.
5. Then switch sides and repeat for another 30 seconds.