Pro Rider Weight

[durianrider]

If you want to be fast on your bike or foot then you got to strip down the body phat unless you want to lug it around. Forget shaving 50g off your fork steerer lol!

Focus on a high carb, low fat, plant based intake and you wont need to starve or dope to 'lean up'. Better for your heart health too.

Here is a shot from 2 days ago. Bronx, NYC. I do running races for a bit of cross training.

Riders weights fluctuate a lot. Look at Ulrich etc. These guys starved/ emselves when all they had to do was eat better. Eat rice/fruit when you want carbs vs ice cream, donuts and choc cake lol!

Lance not racing.

Lance racing.

 

[Fatclimber]

Contador said he'd gained 7.5 kilos after the tour, already lost 4 at their first training camp. For a 62 k rider that is quite significant. How long was their camp, 1 week? 2 weeks? Either way 4 kilos is quite a bit to lose in that amount of time. Moreso since he is so small to begin with.

This story sounds quite absurd, makes me wonder if the pros fill the journalists with B.S. just to see how much we'll all swallow. If it is true, I wish I could lose it that fast and still be able to race competetively.

 

[stephens]

To go from 66 to 62kg in training camp doesn't sound like much of a change to me. Especially if the rider had just put on weight in the off season. A lot of that is going to be water weight and fat that will come right off. At least that's my experience each spring (last February I reached my heaviest ever at 68.4kg but got back to 63.7 by spring and of course I don't do pro level mileage or have access to their nutritionists!)

 

[Michielveedeebee]

Its all about your BMI and how you get there. I sit around 19-21 all year. Eat healthy and train smart and your good to go. Starve and train hard and get run down and burnt out then yo yo diet whilst you live in the starve, binge, starve binge nutter rut.

I know Hamilton would eat a raw vegan programme to get his weight down. A lot of these guys eat vego/vegan to drop the excess body blubber.

Here is a book some of you's could read.

It's not about BMI, BMI is worth jack f-ing ****. It's about fat% and muscle %

 

[tdiethe]

To go from 66 to 62kg in training camp doesn't sound like much of a change to me. Especially if the rider had just put on weight in the off season. A lot of that is going to be water weight and fat that will come right off. At least that's my experience each spring (last February I reached my heaviest ever at 68.4kg but got back to 63.7 by spring and of course I don't do pro level mileage or have access to their nutritionists!)

Agreed. My weight fluctuates between 76 and 82kg (I'm 6'2") between on- and off- season, and that's without any lay-offs longer than a week. In colder weather you naturally retain more fluids as well.

 

[Master50]

We used to say ride the tour and lose a year of life but last year someone did a longevity check on past Tour riders. It seems fit people live longer and people who were once tour level riders definitely have lived longer than their non athletic peers. I can't recall if they compared tour riders to lesser pros who never raced in the tour but against the general public only.