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Ventoux Boar said:Greetings fellow bike race fans. I'm a long time lurker, first time reader
Granville57 said:OK, I have to ask.
If you weren't reading, what was it you were doing while you were lurking?
Ventoux Boar said:Greetings fellow bike race fans. I'm a long time lurker
ebandit said:so how are sky going to perform this year?................form early results have other teams bumped up the ante and are now going to leave poor clean team sky way behind
M Sport said:I always wonder why cycling is the only physical sport that is not supposed to benefit from strength training in the gym. Seems ridiculous to me.
The forces generated in endurance cycling just aren't high enough, that's the main reason. Training a muscle to generate large amounts of force for say 10 reps does absolutely nothing to help you provide more power in a 5 hour road race during which a rider probably turns the pedals 20,000-30,000 times.
Ventoux Boar said:Greetings fellow bike race fans. I'm a long time lurker, first time reader As such it strikes me that some of the tired old tropes need a tune-up. Let's start with the strange notion that cycling is the only sport that cannot benefit from coaching, management and motivation - marginal gains if you'll pardon the phrase.
Would someone please explain why this is the case?
SundayRider said:M Sport said:I always wonder why cycling is the only physical sport that is not supposed to benefit from strength training in the gym. Seems ridiculous to me.
The forces generated in endurance cycling just aren't high enough, that's the main reason. Training a muscle to generate large amounts of force for say 10 reps does absolutely nothing to help you provide more power in a 5 hour road race during which a rider probably turns the pedals 20,000-30,000 times.
SundayRider said:M Sport said:I always wonder why cycling is the only physical sport that is not supposed to benefit from strength training in the gym. Seems ridiculous to me.
The forces generated in endurance cycling just aren't high enough, that's the main reason. Training a muscle to generate large amounts of force for say 10 reps does absolutely nothing to help you provide more power in a 5 hour road race during which a rider probably turns the pedals 20,000-30,000 times.
GuyIncognito said:BMC had been a laughing stock inside the peloton for years -in the same way Milram was - for living in the 1970s.
Precisely because no other team is like that. They are (were? we'll see) the exception, not the rule
DirtyWorks said:SundayRider said:M Sport said:I always wonder why cycling is the only physical sport that is not supposed to benefit from strength training in the gym. Seems ridiculous to me.
If someone wants to start the thread to continue this then go for it. My 0.02 is based on this handy resistance graph http://www.schwalbetires.com/tech_info/rolling_resistance
I would argue you need gym-created power to push through all that air resistance at higher speeds. Now, it's not a 1:1 thing where doing huge squats means higher speeds. But, it will increase your speed after hours in the saddle. No science there, but just my experience.
Netserk said:So it's only okay to enjoy watching (most) professional sports if one chooses to be naive?
Benotti69 said:No, you must self flagulate while watching the sport chanting incessantly to yourself "play the ball not the man"
martinvickers said:Your private life is your business, Benotti. Please, you don't have to overshare.
and hyperbolemartinvickers said:If someone considers it naive to think at least some of the endeavour in sport is non-doped, then, yes, probably. Anything else is to knowingly enjoy people killing themselves. As I said, ghoulish.
I's pretty simple, really.
blackcat said:and hyperbole
"It almost didn't play out in their favour," he warned. "When Henao jumped, me and Kreuziger were careful too and so we jumped with him. The next thing you knew, there was a 15-rider breakaway and even Uran was in there. But Froome was back (in the peloton) and if we'd been more organised, it could have cost him the race. Tactics are tactics, they don't always play out as you plan."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-garderen-in-good-company-on-the-tour-of-oman-podium
Dear Wiggo said:lols .
The only "tactics" guaranteed to work are the Sky 2012 / 2013 / USPS 1999-2005 "ride the peloton off your wheel" tactics.
Race Radio said:Which one of you jokers called the Po Po?
Bexon30 said:The lady in the picture is looking like she has just emptied the contents of liquid marginal gains and pineapple juice down onto the floor Shawshank style.
Cycle chic and thehog were detained by police afterRace Radio said: