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@babydinotrackboy
Hey Ant
never met Hippy(that I know of) so no idea about his size! I ment big boy as in man enough...
As for total belife in my way of training, I dont have a way of training per say, I do however know when some one is saying some thing that is factualy incorrect. And to be fair to Hippy Wayfarer's post was worse as his ideas are decades out of date and he didnt actualy responed to the original posters request of help with training for track racing.
Of course there are many different ways of training and each rider I coach will have a different program even if they had the same overall objectives because they would each need to train in a different way to get there.
But poeple need to understand the fundimentals of training and what they are trying to achieve, to improve you need to stress your system more than you have before, in a way thats specific to your aims with the correct fuel(diet) and rest to allow your body to addapt to these new stresses. Then do it again and again to improve. This cycles through the year with different priorities at different times.
Now there are many ways to cause an addaption, be it more load(more training), overloading(bigger gears) or more intensity to name a few. A good coach will use these principles to continualy addapt their programs and gain improvements from their athletes.
However I am always open to new ideas which is why I work with local sports scientists, coaches and athletes from the GB squad. If the posters above I have disagreed with can tell me with proven science why their ideas are right I would be happy to learn from them.
As for anyone else that would like to ask me questions they are welcome to fire away. I am happy to help as much as I can, I certainly dont have all the answers, but I might be able to point people in the right direction and help stop them going down avenues that will waste their time or not benifit them.