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Re: book contest (was RE: Strength training for cycling)
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Bernie Hayden
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Nov 16, 2006 14:27 PST
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The pattern that jumps out at me is all of the studies involve a time period far to short to reveal any useful information regarding weight training other than the widely known "beginner gains" effect that manifest as an apparent increase in strength.
Good thing we don't rely on 6-12 week "studies" to evaluate the effectiveness of cancer drugs, eh? How about looking at say a group of college athletic programs over the course of one or more seasons. Of course it might be a problem finding any competitive rowing, swimming, or track programs that don't employ weight training.
The other pattern I see in the three original references is that the only program that showed any positive result was the only one that made even a modicum of sense with regard to a well constructed strength regime.
-Bernie Hayden
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From: Andrew Coggan <acog-@earthlink.net>
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The first person to correctly and accurately identify the pattern that I
believe is clearly evident when reading these articles will receive a
free, signed copy of "Training and Racing with a Power Meter", by Hunter
Allen and yours truly:
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