Landis looks fat (ish)

MPCRUSHER · #1 11-14.-2006

Is it just me or does Landis look like he has put on about 20 pounds since August?

http://velonews.com/race/int/articles/11201.0.html

musette · #2 11-14.-2006

He underwent hip surgery not too long ago and probably couldn't do heavy duty exercise for a while.

MPCRUSHER · #3 11-14.-2006

I forgot about that.
I guess a few thousand miles under his belt and weight will fall off.

wicklow200 · #4 11-15.-2006

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Originally Posted by MPCRUSHER

Is it just me or does Landis look like he has put on about 20 pounds since August?

http://velonews.com/race/int/articles/11201.0.html

What if he has? Cos he won't be needing his bike again

stevebaby · #5 11-15.-2006

Yeah,it's not like he's ever going to race again or anything.
Maybe he could start training for marathons or something to get the weight off.

L.Viento · #6 11-16.-2006

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Originally Posted by stevebaby

Yeah,it's not like he's ever going to race again or anything.
Maybe he could start training for marathons or something to get the weight off.

A Spanish cycling mag I was reading actually said he did put on 10 kilos since July. Must be all the In-n-Out Burger.

azdroptop · #7 11-21.-2006

Landis was at our Local, and the largest Perimeter bike race in the US, on Sat and didn't look fat, just heavier than after the tour. I understand the El Tour de Tucson was his first ever century when he was getting started.

bobke · #8 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by azdroptop

Landis was at our Local, and the largest Perimeter bike race in the US, on Sat and didn't look fat, just heavier than after the tour. I understand the El Tour de Tucson was his first ever century when he was getting started.

Interesting how little posters on this forum actually know.

It is usual for TOur riders, particularly those at the podium level to be a adult lifetime low weight, especially at the finish of the Tour de France. For shizzy, that is the lightest Landis ever weighed, he was positively spectral in appearance.

It is routine that Armstrong gained 10-12 pounds in the 3-4 weeks after the Tour de France.

For Landis, add to that the pain of his hip before surgery, the surgery, and immobility, and the stress, 20 pounds would not be unusual. Lance gained 20 after the 1999TdF.

TOur riders can only hold that low weight and maintain peak power for 6-8 weeks. My son, who is a competetive cyclist, just underwent his FIRST body fat and power output as a baseline for this season. His body fat was 8.1% and he is not even training hard. So imagine how much leaner Tour riders get. We are talking 4% body fat folks, so it would be healthy to gain that weight back. BTW, littlebobke's first power output on a lab protocol was double digits watts per kg for several minutes at just below peak power. Not bad.

patch70 · #9 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by bobke

BTW, littlebobke's first power output on a lab protocol was double digits watts per kg for several minutes at just below peak power. Not bad.

Another friggin' doper.

azdroptop · #10 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by bobke

Interesting how little posters on this forum actually know.

It is usual for TOur riders, particularly those at the podium level to be a adult lifetime low weight, especially at the finish of the Tour de France. For shizzy, that is the lightest Landis ever weighed, he was positively spectral in appearance.

It is routine that Armstrong gained 10-12 pounds in the 3-4 weeks after the Tour de France.

For Landis, add to that the pain of his hip before surgery, the surgery, and immobility, and the stress, 20 pounds would not be unusual. Lance gained 20 after the 1999TdF.

TOur riders can only hold that low weight and maintain peak power for 6-8 weeks. My son, who is a competetive cyclist, just underwent his FIRST body fat and power output as a baseline for this season. His body fat was 8.1% and he is not even training hard. So imagine how much leaner Tour riders get. We are talking 4% body fat folks, so it would be healthy to gain that weight back. BTW, littlebobke's first power output on a lab protocol was double digits watts per kg for several minutes at just below peak power. Not bad.

Yep. That all sounds right. Most haters on here would rake it up to proof of Floyd and Lance being dopers. LOL

MPCRUSHER · #11 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by bobke

Interesting how little posters on this forum actually know.

It is usual for TOur riders, particularly those at the podium level to be a adult lifetime low weight, especially at the finish of the Tour de France. For shizzy, that is the lightest Landis ever weighed, he was positively spectral in appearance.

It is routine that Armstrong gained 10-12 pounds in the 3-4 weeks after the Tour de France.

For Landis, add to that the pain of his hip before surgery, the surgery, and immobility, and the stress, 20 pounds would not be unusual. Lance gained 20 after the 1999TdF.

TOur riders can only hold that low weight and maintain peak power for 6-8 weeks. My son, who is a competetive cyclist, just underwent his FIRST body fat and power output as a baseline for this season. His body fat was 8.1% and he is not even training hard. So imagine how much leaner Tour riders get. We are talking 4% body fat folks, so it would be healthy to gain that weight back. BTW, littlebobke's first power output on a lab protocol was double digits watts per kg for several minutes at just below peak power. Not bad.

Its interesting how little posters on this forum actually think before they post. How insightful and enlightening you are sir. I mention Landis has put on weight say 20 pounds since July. Suddenly I don't know anything about cycling and the effects of a 3 week GT on the body and how lance did this and that and rah rah rah. Oh my god get over your own inflated opinion of yourself and perhaps you should stop trying to live your own unfullfilled cycling dream through your son.

Did he put on weight? Yes

Did I suggest any reasons for it? No

Did I accuse him of being a doper? No

What is your point??

Bro Deal · #12 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by MPCRUSHER

Its interesting how little posters on this forum actually think before they post. How insightful and enlightening you are sir. I mention Landis has put on weight say 20 pounds since July. Suddenly I don't know anything about cycling and the effects of a 3 week GT on the body and how lance did this and that and rah rah rah. Oh my god get over your own inflated opinion of yourself and perhaps you should stop trying to live your own unfullfilled cycling dream through your son.

+1

Landis is on the Ullrich training plan.

Aside from surgery and not being able to train for a while, there is a very good chance he won't be racing next year. It would be hard to maintain a strict diet if it is not necessary. If Landis beats the rap I guarantee he will drop ten pounds in a month.

Serafino · #13 11-22.-2006

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Originally Posted by patch70

Another friggin' doper.

Is that supposed to be funny?

bobke · #14 11-23.-2006

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Originally Posted by MPCRUSHER

Its interesting how little posters on this forum actually think before they post. How insightful and enlightening you are sir. I mention Landis has put on weight say 20 pounds since July. Suddenly I don't know anything about cycling and the effects of a 3 week GT on the body and how lance did this and that and rah rah rah. Oh my god get over your own inflated opinion of yourself and perhaps you should stop trying to live your own unfullfilled cycling dream through your son.

Did he put on weight? Yes

Did I suggest any reasons for it? No

Did I accuse him of being a doper? No

What is your point??

My point is, OK he put on weight, so what.
What was your point in posting it?
I dont think FLoyd deserves or falls into the the Jan Ullrich weight watchers club where everyone has to obsessively watch each photograph posted to see if FLoyd has ballooned.
I never inferred you were suggesting doping or anything close o it.
I just dont see where one photo of FLoyd desrves an entire thread to his weight. I thought you were being hard on him and called you out.
FLoyd stalks some of these forums BTW.

patch70 · #15 11-23.-2006

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Originally Posted by Serafino

Is that supposed to be funny?

No. Dad is a doping apologist. What are we to think the son is up to?

The only other explanation is that it is a European conspiracy to alter his power readings. Just ask bobkedesubaru.

Speaking of the hombredesubaru, we haven't seen your alter ego for a while bobke.

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