Interesting study:
Participants were around 5W/kg at 20 minutes. Young and well trained.
- (Spanish) participants averages: 28-30 years old, 180cm, 70kg
- participants were well trained with a cycling license and mostly around 5W/kg at 20 minutes
- asked to not do strength training for 3 months before study
- study ran from October to December
- 12 hours/week of zone2 (pre-season training)
- one group just cycling
- one group cycling + core (demo of routing in video below)
- one group cycling + strength (Ronnestad protocol, demo of routing in video below)
- relatively small differences in performance improvements between cyclists
- the researcher - Sebastian Sitka - is also a cycling coach
Results:
