Comments on: Strength Training Without Additional Body Mass – 4 http://www.training4cyclists.com/strength-training-without-additional-body-mass-4/ Cycling Training Tips Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dr. mike heit http://www.training4cyclists.com/strength-training-without-additional-body-mass-4/comment-page-1/#comment-70395 dr. mike heit Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:08:51 +0000 http://www.training4cyclists.com/strength-training-without-additional-body-mass-4/#comment-70395 I find european coachs in most sports are not into weight traing whereas eastern block and north american are pro weights. Biking is realy a european sport in the main so it follows that cycling has not gone weights. One reason is poor research. We see these studies of 12 bikers split into 2 groups for 12 weeks-- get serious! Cooper, the father of aerobics research, used massive data sets over time to develop his broad based principles. Crosstraining is real but difficult to prove. Another thing-- this 1950 thinking of weight training leads to big body mass and slow reaction is so wrong. Depending on weights, reps and sets one can set a matrix of body performce outputs. Weights allow u be strong enough to spend more time on the drops, better sprint, greater performance in the last 5-10 percent of a hill climb. Strength allows one to come thru crashs better and recouver faster. Crosstraining is real. We know that. However it takes serious and well defined research todevop procols for training guidelines. This conventional wisdom of weights do not help boxers, runners, basketball, iron man etc have all been proven wrong. (has anyone seen an nba player today? Must get strong from bouncing a ball eh?) Give someone a good research design and volunteers and this myth will fall for cycling. I find european coachs in most sports are not into weight traing whereas eastern block and north american are pro weights. Biking is realy a european sport in the main so it follows that cycling has not gone weights.

One reason is poor research. We see these studies of 12 bikers split into 2 groups for 12 weeks– get serious! Cooper, the father of aerobics research, used massive data sets over time to develop his broad based principles. Crosstraining is real but difficult to prove.

Another thing– this 1950 thinking of weight training leads to big body mass and slow reaction is so wrong. Depending on weights, reps and sets one can set a matrix of body performce outputs.

Weights allow u be strong enough to spend more time on the drops, better sprint, greater performance in the last 5-10 percent of a hill climb. Strength allows one to come thru crashs better and recouver faster. Crosstraining is real. We know that. However it takes serious and well defined research todevop procols for training guidelines.

This conventional wisdom of weights do not help boxers, runners, basketball, iron man etc have all been proven wrong. (has anyone seen an nba player today? Must get strong from bouncing a ball eh?) Give someone a good research design and volunteers and this myth will fall for cycling.

]]> By: Larry L. http://www.training4cyclists.com/strength-training-without-additional-body-mass-4/comment-page-1/#comment-33006 Larry L. Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:04:27 +0000 http://www.training4cyclists.com/strength-training-without-additional-body-mass-4/#comment-33006 I agree with the theory of riding after lifting to "convert the stimuli from strength training to increased functional neural adaptations." I used the same strategy when I played basketball- always shooting immediately after lifting to turn my muscles into what I called 'basketball muscles.' I agree with the theory of riding after lifting to “convert the stimuli from strength training to increased functional neural adaptations.” I used the same strategy when I played basketball- always shooting immediately after lifting to turn my muscles into what I called ‘basketball muscles.’

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