Tyler Hamilton website

[buckwheat]

exactly i dont see what him doping has anything to do with being a good coach he was a highly accomplished cyclist in his time. people on here seem to think you can dope and just lay around and still be good. they improve performance but you have to have skill beyond that. a genetically gifted athlete will still easily beat a doped to the gills genetically inferior athlete its that simple. tyler was a good tough rider i would certainly think he could be a very useful coach.

I'm going to call bs on this.

LeMond had and has revolutionary training ideas. A lot less volume but a lot more intensity. You know, bang for the buck.

He outlined those ideas in the LeMond special edition of Pro Cycling about a year and a half ago.

The kind of crap/Ped's TH was doing allowed idiotic training volumes and enabled recovery.

Obviously, the goal is to stimulate gains while allowing the body to recover from them.

Riding 40,000 k a year is just destroying the meat and is moronic.

It completely effs up hormone levels which becomes a death spiral.

 

[md2020]

What Hamilton has on the line is his gold medal, which I imagine he values a lot. Two more years until that is safe unless he could work out a deal with WADA and maybe the IOC. Aside from that, what financial interests does he have? He looks like a fool denying what everyone knows is true.

His coaching (and I believe cycle tour) business is what he stands to lose by coming clean. It's not that I don't think he couldn't be a decent coach, but getting clients is the tricky part.

The key is that, while everyone on this message board and who bothers to look into things knows the truth, it's likely that his prospective clients are your average clueless Americans. Coming clean risks alienating them and PO'ing all the LA fanbase.

 

[BroDeal]

His coaching (and I believe cycle tour) business is what he stands to lose by coming clean. It's not that I don't think he couldn't be a decent coach, but getting clients is the tricky part.

The key is that, while everyone on this message board and who bothers to look into things knows the truth, it's likely that his prospective clients are your average clueless Americans. Coming clean risks alienating them and PO'ing all the LA fanbase.

How many potential clients do not consider him because he is the butt of lost twin jokes? He has been convicted of doping twice. He is currently serving an eight year ban. The number of people who still think he is innocent has to be quite small. The bottom line is that he would be in a much better position if he could tell people that he was caught doing what everyone else was doing rather than maintaining that he is innocent in the face of laughter.

FLandis coming clean after a defense strategy similar to Hamilton's, which even included the same requests for donations from the public, has damaged what little credibility Hamilton has. People easily draw parallels.

 

[buckwheat]

How many potential clients do not consider him because he is the butt of lost twin jokes? He has been convicted of doping twice. He is currently serving an eight year ban. The number of people who still think he is innocent has to be quite small. The bottom line is that he would be in a much better position if he could tell people that he was caught doing what everyone else was doing rather than maintaining that he is innocent in the face of laughter.
FLandis coming clean after a defense strategy similar to Hamilton's, which even included the same requests for donations from the public, has damaged what little credibility Hamilton has. People easily draw parallels.

Definitely.

How many muscleheads train in bodybuilding gyms all over the world who know what the real deal is and could care less.

A decent number of people want the inside scoop on cycling training. Why insult their intelligence?

 

[md2020]

How many potential clients do not consider him because he is the butt of lost twin jokes? He has been convicted of doping twice. He is currently serving an eight year ban. The number of people who still think he is innocent has to be quite small. The bottom line is that he would be in a much better position if he could tell people that he was caught doing what everyone else was doing rather than maintaining that he is innocent in the face of laughter.

FLandis coming clean after a defense strategy similar to Hamilton's, which even included the same requests for donations from the public, has damaged what little credibility Hamilton has. People easily draw parallels.

Yea, you're probably right. It kinda surprises me that he has any clients in the first place but I don't know the guy personally. I'm sure he's got plenty of knowledge about training and such but, like you said, the lack of credibility would be tough for me to get past.