Strength Training information and resources: (We will update this lead post with appropriate info over time.) 5 Strength Training Exercises to Integrate Into Your Cycling Training Plan The Official TrainerRoad blog post with Coach Chad’s essential strength exercises.

Check out the strength program Nino Schurter follows. It’s for someone racing MTB, but it’s also a great total body workout that is relevant for anyone looking for overall strength for outdoor activities. As I’ve gotten older (ha, I’m 46, so that’s old to some and young for others :grin:), I’ve rea…

Cool. Fair bit of specific equipment though. Would be hard to find or make yourself.

One reason these programs are hard to come by is the ones that work are zealously protected as training differentiators by coaches. Generally, the type of weight training you’re going to need will be dictated by the sport specific requirements of your particular cycling discipline. You’ll want a mo…

It’s quite important to take this for what it is - an sampling of activities that may or may not be representative of the bulk of the programming volume. Basing your programming on this would be quite similar to looking at a pro’s diet on the gram and assuming that you know what they’re fueling wit…

My comment was less about the strength program to make you fast, more about a strength program for overall fitness/readiness for our door activities - like cycling, hiking, skiing, climbing, etc. Functional exercises with lots of compound movements and core work are great for this.

[image] Jonathan: We built a handy little tool to calculate your strength training requirements. Check it out in this post . Brilliant. Thank you. I am no sprinter, but the sprinter weights for my body weight are pretty stock standard weights and/or reps. I am surprised how little weight on …

Hey guys, which body weight strength exercises and what set/rep quantity would you recommend for somebody lacking weights? After watching Chad’s video, I currently do 5 sets of 10 pistol squats per leg, 10 spiderman push-ups and 20 Side planks per side. And I do this 2-3 times per week, after the …

[image] chad: As far as the hormonal cascade, what you’ve stated makes sense to me in some ways but the overlap of AMPK signaling vs. MTORc makes me wonder how well the opposed training benefits interact. Endurance work turns on AMPK but eating turns it off, but protein is crucially important to…

I think what he meant was that the vast, vast majority of people here should probably be focusing on the basics rather than following a program like Nino’s. Nino is undoubtedly very, very good at the basics of strength and conditioning and what you see him doing is the icing on the cake. But before…

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We built a handy little tool to calculate your strength training requirements. Check it out in this post.

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