like any athlete, i am always trying to find out ways to improve.
on a weightlifting site i visit, a great coach insists the bigger the athlete, the stronger more powerful..
i guess bigger muscles= more power for faster riding..
a strength powerlifting coach, that always seems to say cyclists should listen to his advice and get bigger..
personally i lift weights to be stronger, and have been since i was a kid..
whatever sport i played i lifted to help me get strionger in the sport i was playing.
i read books where weights arnt the best thing for cyclists. i also read where in the winter your supose to do squats and leg presses. about 50/50 on coaches saying to lift and dont lift..
i remember andy hamsten saying he lifted for upper body training, not to get bigger, but overall strength, and did his power strength leg training on the bike.
i remember the dane, jesper skibby saying for 12 years he rode t his suppleness disapearing..
as a lowly cat 2 racer, i will continue to lift, doing my dips, pushups, pullups abs and benches and hang cleans as hard as i can, but legs, i stick to riding and training hard, with the racing too..
is it foolish not to get bigger per this coach? i told him in an email if bigger means faster stronger, why did mark cavandish beat thor every day with 200 to go when the were both even..
thors a lot bigger..
cavandish beat thor every sprint. he says a bigger motor gonna beat a smaller one . to do lots of lifting..
typical racing for me is 35-80 miles of rolling or flat..no 10 mile climbs at all.
i'm 6' 150#..been this way the last 40 years...any opinions?
thanks
steve
on a weightlifting site i visit, a great coach insists the bigger the athlete, the stronger more powerful..
i guess bigger muscles= more power for faster riding..
a strength powerlifting coach, that always seems to say cyclists should listen to his advice and get bigger..
personally i lift weights to be stronger, and have been since i was a kid..
whatever sport i played i lifted to help me get strionger in the sport i was playing.
i read books where weights arnt the best thing for cyclists. i also read where in the winter your supose to do squats and leg presses. about 50/50 on coaches saying to lift and dont lift..
i remember andy hamsten saying he lifted for upper body training, not to get bigger, but overall strength, and did his power strength leg training on the bike.
i remember the dane, jesper skibby saying for 12 years he rode t his suppleness disapearing..
as a lowly cat 2 racer, i will continue to lift, doing my dips, pushups, pullups abs and benches and hang cleans as hard as i can, but legs, i stick to riding and training hard, with the racing too..
is it foolish not to get bigger per this coach? i told him in an email if bigger means faster stronger, why did mark cavandish beat thor every day with 200 to go when the were both even..
thors a lot bigger..
cavandish beat thor every sprint. he says a bigger motor gonna beat a smaller one . to do lots of lifting..
typical racing for me is 35-80 miles of rolling or flat..no 10 mile climbs at all.
i'm 6' 150#..been this way the last 40 years...any opinions?
thanks
steve