Why are you running a PCT? Looking to get the Mrs preggers? You could always run SARMS while you're off, you won't feel so deflated while you're waiting for your knackers to kick back into gear.
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Why are you running a PCT? Looking to get the Mrs preggers? You could always run SARMS while you're off, you won't feel so deflated while you're waiting for your knackers to kick back into gear.
You're either not on, or that's the dumbest post I've read in a long time .....
Sure, happy to offer any help I can. What do you have at the moment, and what are you looking to achieve (and what's your budget)?
Be good if you can keep us posted on how you're doing in the races
It's going to be live on RAI3 if you can pick that up. It's on the web, but you need to spoof an Italian IP address.
What about Eurosport?
Haha, no it's not that big a thing unfortunately
They only tend to show pro races, and I'm quite a way off that.To put it into perspective, on my usual training I push out around 5.1watts per kg. The pros tend to do around 6-6.5 watts per kg, and they can do that after a long day in the saddle (which I can't). Impressive athletes.
Haha, no it's not that big a thing unfortunately
To put it into perspective, on my usual training I push out around 5.1watts per kg. The pros tend to do around 6-6.5 watts per kg, and they can do that after a long day in the saddle (which I can't). Impressive athletes.
FFS Bruce, get on the juice!! :blink:
Well, to be fair, 6.5w/kg is widely believed to be impossible now unless you are on the juice. Over the last few years, 6w/kg is seen to be a healthy, clean limit for performance. Still very impressive though when you think most riders have done 100 miles by the time they reach the final climbs.
To put it into perspective. I rode up Alps d'Huez last summer in an hour. The pros can do it in around 41 minutes. The record was 37m 35s by an almost certainly juiced up Marco Pantani.
Pretty pleased with mine though considering Greg leMond did it in 48 minutes in 1986. He was widely regarded as a clean rider and was a bit of a physiological freak.
To put it into perspective. I rode up Alps d'Huez last summer in an hour. The pros can do it in around 41 minutes. The record was 37m 35s by an almost certainly juiced up Marco Pantani.
Pretty pleased with mine though considering Greg leMond did it in 48 minutes in 1986. He was widely regarded as a clean rider and was a bit of a physiological freak.
What do you do to bring up your power to weight ratio?
Train more or lose weight
With work and other stuff, training time is at a premium, so I usually do 1hr sessions at a steady tempo, with the aim being to recreate the kind of efforts needed to climb an alpine mountain. Then do a longer ride at the weekend.
It's all basically lactate threshold work.
With work and other stuff, training time is at a premium, so I usually do 1hr sessions at a steady tempo, with the aim being to recreate the kind of efforts needed to climb an alpine mountain. Then do a longer ride at the weekend.
It's all basically lactate threshold work.
Train more or lose weight
With work and other stuff, training time is at a premium, so I usually do 1hr sessions at a steady tempo, with the aim being to recreate the kind of efforts needed to climb an alpine mountain. Then do a longer ride at the weekend.
It's all basically lactate threshold work.
I've got some stuff you might find useful, is there a word count limit on the PM's?
It's easier to send the PDF, so scrap above
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Nice one, thanks mate. Should be an interesting read. The whole thing of whether cyclists should weight train is a big bone of contention. There are some coaches that swear it's a waste of time, reasoning that even when really grinding the pedals you don't tend to require a great deal of force/strength. It's the repetitive nature of it all that requires muscular endurance.
In their eyes of course. Weights do appear to be done by a fair number of pros though so it may well have some use as I can't imagine they'd waste their time doing something that hurt their performance.
It's fairly common for people to use the winter months to ride in a bigger gear in order to build strength. So for instance you might do a climb at 60 pedal revs per minute, and use that to build strength rather than do squats/AN other gym exercise.
Shall enjoy reading over the doc though, thanks
In their eyes of course. Weights do appear to be done by a fair number of pros though so it may well have some use as I can't imagine they'd waste their time doing something that hurt their performance.
It's fairly common for people to use the winter months to ride in a bigger gear in order to build strength. So for instance you might do a climb at 60 pedal revs per minute, and use that to build strength rather than do squats/AN other gym exercise.
Shall enjoy reading over the doc though, thanks
The problem is that people totally miss understand the application of weight training to sports. All they know is bodybuilding stuff, which is totally irrelevant to almost every sport.
The strength training that coaches think about when they try to find an application for endurance training is totally irrelevant and counterproductive to endurance sports. Coaches who are more progressive know this, and use strength training in a totally different manner.
You have two different types of motor units that are recruited, fast and slow. If you use weight training in the traditional sense, you're improving your fast motor units. This is totally counter productive and irrelevant for sports that rely on slow motor units. What you want to do is improve the strength of slow motor units, which means you can out put a higher rate of force for a sustained period of time.
It helps to forget everything you think you know about strength training, and then start again. This is often used as a starting point in maximal strength training, because people often try to use bodybuilding principles and frazzle their brains trying to work out how a particular routine is ever going to work.
Example: My training partner moaned all the way through a four week meso cycle, literally every training session he'd tell me that it wouldn't work. Two months later after peaking out and setting PB's in every lift, I struggled to get him off the bloody routine. He came from a bodybuilding background, and couldn't understand how doing three exercises three days a week would get him stronger. He even got bigger doing the routine, his back was noticeably thicker and wider too.
The same analogy applies for strength endurance. Your 1 rep max will have zero affect on your sustained output when cycling, in fact your 1 rep max going up will probably mean your power to weight ratio when cycling will go down. Have a read of the stuff I've sent you, and if you need any help let me know.
The strength training that coaches think about when they try to find an application for endurance training is totally irrelevant and counterproductive to endurance sports. Coaches who are more progressive know this, and use strength training in a totally different manner.
You have two different types of motor units that are recruited, fast and slow. If you use weight training in the traditional sense, you're improving your fast motor units. This is totally counter productive and irrelevant for sports that rely on slow motor units. What you want to do is improve the strength of slow motor units, which means you can out put a higher rate of force for a sustained period of time.
It helps to forget everything you think you know about strength training, and then start again. This is often used as a starting point in maximal strength training, because people often try to use bodybuilding principles and frazzle their brains trying to work out how a particular routine is ever going to work.
Example: My training partner moaned all the way through a four week meso cycle, literally every training session he'd tell me that it wouldn't work. Two months later after peaking out and setting PB's in every lift, I struggled to get him off the bloody routine. He came from a bodybuilding background, and couldn't understand how doing three exercises three days a week would get him stronger. He even got bigger doing the routine, his back was noticeably thicker and wider too.
The same analogy applies for strength endurance. Your 1 rep max will have zero affect on your sustained output when cycling, in fact your 1 rep max going up will probably mean your power to weight ratio when cycling will go down. Have a read of the stuff I've sent you, and if you need any help let me know.
From what I can tell, the main argument against weights for cycling (in terms of legs at least) is that the force put out per pedal stroke by even the very best cyclist is not that big at all, and certainly within reach of the average person.
Their talent comes from the ability to replicate that force 5,500 times an hour. So the naysayers will tell you that the best way to train for cycling is to cycle, and that weights don't really add much as your force per stroke is not generally the limiting factor.
Others will say that it can help with core strength etc. and I believe that's what Wiggins used it for during 2012. Obviously track cyclists are a bit different and you'll see Chris Hoy et al doing a lot of work in the gym to build up strength.
I generally do it for all round fitness, as I don't want to have an upper body like a traditional cyclist, but I suspect if I was to really devote myself to cycling I could drop the gym and not notice that big a difference. Indeed I'd probably lose a kg or two in upper body mass as a result.
Their talent comes from the ability to replicate that force 5,500 times an hour. So the naysayers will tell you that the best way to train for cycling is to cycle, and that weights don't really add much as your force per stroke is not generally the limiting factor.
Others will say that it can help with core strength etc. and I believe that's what Wiggins used it for during 2012. Obviously track cyclists are a bit different and you'll see Chris Hoy et al doing a lot of work in the gym to build up strength.
I generally do it for all round fitness, as I don't want to have an upper body like a traditional cyclist, but I suspect if I was to really devote myself to cycling I could drop the gym and not notice that big a difference. Indeed I'd probably lose a kg or two in upper body mass as a result.
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