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Re: Strength Training
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Hamish Ferguson
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Nov 16, 2006 18:22 PST
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From: "Barry Kaplan" <dkxk-@earthlink.net>
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an off season training plan?
We know that Off season Strength Training will not help Endurance
cycling but will it hurt? While the short term effects of Strength
training will act to impede performace is it detrimental long term to
cycling performance (other than to delay the return to baseline CPs)?
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I don't think strength training will hurt your cycling. I get my riders to
do gym work as part of their overall development. I don't for a second
consider it a method of improving their on the bike performance, especially
over event specific interval training.
I work on the philosophy that a rider should maximise all the components of
fitness and gym work tackles the strength side of things. A roadie will not
need to do much gym work to maximise their strength potential as they will
have little strength potential. Track sprinters will have far more potential
for strength development and therefore need to spend more time in the gym or
at least lift more.
Under this philosophy Track Sprinters should maximise their aerobic
capacity. Again they will not have much aerobic potential to begin with and
this work will be a minimal part of the programme.
This is all base stuff but as long as we remember that building power over
our goal duration/s is the physiological priority.
Hamish Ferguson
Cycling Coach
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