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the season is almost over just as its begun and unless i can improve my 1-5 min power I'm not going to win anything.
You want to improve your 2 min power in the week before the National so you can win it?
dbr-
A couple of dumbbell curls, it’ll be fine...
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Ha ha no sorry absolutely not i just made a comment on this thread (I'll start something properly in the training section on here) as @Acliff was talking about strength training and his comment was relevant to me. I'm never going to win any sprint or a hill climb ever but I'd definitely do better in the races i do if i was a bit more punchy. I'm a real diesel now and when I get dropped its never on a steady state section its usually on an acceleration out of a slow corner or on a climb when i kicks up suddenly and i always get shelled in any sprint. My fatigue profiling in testing sub 5 minutes has always been terrible. I know a couple of dumbbell curls isn't going to suddenly make me any quicker i was just asking a general question on training as it seemed relevant to an area if training i definitely need to work on. Sorry for derailing the thread and good luck to all the proper racer boys at the nationals 💪
EDIT : I've tried to pick this back up on the training thread if anyone wants to make any suggestions or mock my numbers over there?
Acliff
Retro_Bastard
Its always amazed me how sprinters do those double days. Every time I've tried to focus on strength by doing 2x intense lifting workouts a week I'm just sore all the time and any riding or running above higher tempo intensity seems so difficult which maybe be OK ok when doing winter volume at lower intensities but hard to incorporate it when trying to do vo2 max intervals within the same training block . I'll ask about this in training so i don't pull this thread sideways. I'm just panic training really as the season is almost over just as its begun and unless i can improve my 1-5 min power I'm not going to win anything. (note to self panic training = over training so don't do that)