Cycling Strength Training in 3 Minutes!? A Conversation Amongst Coaches and Athletes, Part 1

All the coaches give a strength training pitch in just 3 minutes. If you take some notes, you’ll see how different we all can approach this topic.

When to lift, how to lift, and how does this change as race season approaches?

Weight training, like cycling training, is very individualized. It is impossible to make an effective blanket statement. That said, we hope this conversation gets the wheels spinning in your head so you can figure out the best way to utilize strength training to make some gains, stay injury free, and become a stronger athlete.

Some topics, but not all!

Muscle activation

Glute activation

Keeping injury at bay.

Increase sets or increase weight?

Heavy weight versus plyometrics.

Lifting into race season.

Athlete questions and comments.

Band work.

Upper body and core work; the benefit of keeping those strong for when you’re going hard on the bike!

The mental letting go of a gym session as race season approaches.

YAMES in the building: lifting on endurance day or hard day?

High rep low weight vs Low rep high weight…

Dynamic lifting…lift into box jumps!

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