Good Luck in Edmonton (Junior PanAm Championship)

Edmonton won´t have these kind of hills, 14%, more than 500 meters.  This is Oaxaca.

Keep your cadence above 85 rpm when going up hill and you will be able to run.  This makes the difference between the ones who run after the bike like the Brownlees and the others.  Do not wait for research, just look at how they pedal and think clearly; research will come five years later and will have incomplete answers. This is the most important point regarding technique going up hill. The problem is that you need to practice for years to be efficient.

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17 juin 2012

The Limit of Triathlon Performance

Coggan speaks about it, Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan, Training and racing with a power meter.  2010.  I like the way he puts it.  What he says is not just relevant to cycling, but to running and swimming.  It plays the major role in our physiology:

Strength, per se, plays a very small role in determining power output. The growing realization that more traditional forms of resistance training, such as weight lifting, provide little or no benefit to cyclists is possibly contributing to the increasing popularity of strength endurance training. Coaches who employ those workouts are attempting to provide a more specific form of on-the-bike resistance training that will enable a cyclist to make gains applicable to racing. However, it appears that few, if any, of the people who recommend strength endurance training have actually considered whether the forces generated during these sessions are in fact sufficient to cause beneficial adaptations to occur. Instead, most seem to have simply assumed that just because the cadence is lower than usual, and hence the pedaling forces higher, there will be an increase in muscular size and strength, and hence in maximal power. In fact, the average effective pedal force during strength endurance intervals is generally too low to represent a significant overload. A laboratory study performed in New Zealand in 2005 found that such training does not increase either the size (estimated using anthropometry) or the maximal force production (determining using isokinetic dynamometry) of the leg extensor muscles.  (139).

There is another previous post:

March 29, 2012. TRIATHLON PHYSIOLOGY FOR DUMMIES AND THE TENDENCY TOWARD THE MEAN Seventh part. What is a neurological workout?  

Remember what Armstrong said in 2007:

In 2007, Armstrong was interviewed by Ciclismo a fondo.  267: 46.  He said: “The reason why Johan and I were able to win was because we competed against a bunch of imbeciles.  We had a modern planning…There were a bunch of ranchers running around us…still the same situation in cycling.”