Let’s have a thread to share any info on pro/elite training. I find this topic highly interesting and inspirational. I will make a start: Mathew Hayman [image] Mathew Hayman Career Analysis: Part One | TrainingPeaks Retired Pro Cyclist Mathew Hayman and his coach Kevin Poulton reflect…

Excerpt from an interview with Tim Wellens, where he briefly discusses the training at UAE and how it differs. Also his personal anecdote about Pog at the end. Wellens does start on his familiar Mallorca, but wants to be really good in March and April. Not put everything on the Ardennes classics li…

[image] IL.Grillo: That means I have to ride annoyingly the whole training I much more prefer his description of this style compared to the general ‘’happy hard’’ :stuck_out_tongue:

[image] IL.Grillo: They want your normalized power here to also be your average power, making training more like a time trial Sheesh!

[image] Egan Bernal is back with a vengeance. At least in terms of time in the saddle… 23h average last 7 weeks. Talk about base…some 5w/kg efforts from 10 to 30 mins here and there.

[image] Beneluxrider: [image] IL.Grillo: That means I have to ride annoyingly the whole training I much more prefer his description of this style compared to the general ‘’happy hard’’ :stuck_out_tongue: “making training more like a time trial” Sounds fun. :sob:

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Had a look at his training maybe a week ago, it was interesting to see the year to year consistency in approach. There were quit a few workouts this December that he did identically in December 2021, intervals duration, number, even wattage was identical. Just a lot of solid work.

Looks like quite a few tempo/sweetspot efforts actually. Quite surprising for a ISM athlete (though I’m not sure if he is actually trained by ISM as well).

Yes, ISM coached. Why should he not be doing tempo/SST? ISM style training is not just about riding around/at LT1/AeT all the time: The ideal training plan should include 3-4 days a week of zone 2 training in the first 2-3 months of pre-season training, followed by 2-3 days a week as the season g…

Thanks. I thought of ISM as more similar as Seiler, Z2 or Z4+. But 3-4 Z2 rides per weak leaves room for 3-2 higher intensity rides like tempo and threshold. Definitely hard stuff. Those 2×60’ sweetspot rides look hard af. Can’t imagine the amounts of food he needs to eat to fuel all this.

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