Recent content by mcmcgill

Interesting tactic, putting words in my mouth. I said strength training has an influence on short-term efforts...I didn't say that VO2 max doesn't, and of course it certainly does--just less and less of an impact as the efforts get briefer and briefer. As for your other comments, no plans to...

Guys...don't have time or interest to debate or rebut points you make, but will quickly comment on the 4 studies below. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17313261 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10378917 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11820327...

Well you can't really make a comparison that way...and my fault I suppose for comparing a track sprinter to a top climber. Instead we really have to compare riders that don't strength train to riders that do strength train. So, to rephrase, I'd wager that a top track sprinter (I think all of...

That is generally considered the job the person rebutting, but in the Aagaard review, he does discuss some of the earlier studies that contradict his conclusions and does provide some reasoning that may account for the differences. Can you provide other studies that are not covered in the...

The case on this is hardly closed, and in fact physiology scientists are getting better and better at quantifying the value of strength training for cyclists. The two studies below, as well as the review paper following, shed much light on the value of strength training, primarily in short-term...

I experimented with Tabata for an entire winter and can emphatically say, like someone else mentioned, that it does not help FTP. That winter I did two Tabata sessions per week and the only other work was single-leg presses, leg extenstions and leg curls (+ some upper body). My first regular...

Fairly new to racing and cycling physiology, and am wondering about a few things that I can't find a physiological or controlled study backing for (albeit I haven't spent much time on it). 1 - LSD rides. I got tested early last winter for lactate threshold power and fuel efficiency, and the...