Hi all, I’m struggling to find the answer to this one. All the proponents of weight training seem to expect you can simply add it to your normal cycling schedule. I have started weight training this year, going to the gym twice a week. But to fit it in I have dropped a cycle session. I’m still do…

Have you listened to the TR podcasts about weight training? There was a very comprehensive one recently. The Dylan Johnson YT blog on weights was also interesting and Brendon H Evoq channel talks about how to integrate weights.

If you haven’t already seen it, this thread is kind of the master one with lots of discussions including scheduling. [image] Strength Training Training Strength Training information and resources: (We will update this lead post with appropriate info over time.) 5 Stre…

[image] Bigpikle: Johnson I have listened to them all, and seen the Dylan Johnson videos. As far as I can remember none of them cover the senario of, including weights meaning decreasing time on the bike and if that is a net positive. They all talk about how to schedule the weights around th…

The pay-off, or not, is going to be individual - what are your goals and what are your strengths & limiters in achieving those goals? I’m 51 and my goal is health and quality of life along with maximising fun on the bike, so the pay-off is there for me to include some time throwing heavy stuff arou…

I am in my mid thirties and my Goal is to win races :smiley: I’m a Cat3 in the UK and my limiter to winning races is definetly my sprint. I can get in the break, and I get can to the end of a race in the right place. Then always find myself going backwards from there. Which is what lead me to the w…

[image] hollandgdavid: I’m still doing 3 structured rides a week and a long ride at the weekend as well as my two lifting sessions a week, but I have dropped one session a week that would be about 2 hours of zone 2. It depends what part of the periodization scheme you are at the moment. If it…

I remember there was a study where they had same volume but gym group replaced a ride with weight session and the gym group ended up faster. I think it was one of Dylans video

Its the first time ive been in the gym. I started lifting in November, but DOMS and COVID made this very patchy. Ive been lifting twice a week since the begining of Jan. I did 4 weeks of adapting increasing weight and lowering Reps. Ive now done 2 weeks of 3-5 rep range, Squat and deadlift, with Ro…

The only way I could get some more time on the bike in is to stack an hour of Zone2 in before I lift weights (litrally on the way to the gym) on the two days I lift (currently the gym is a 20 min cycle away). But this goes against all the advice on keeping them separate because of the different sign…

[image] hollandgdavid: My goal being CRITS and ~100km rolling road races. So what I’m trying to figure out is as a cyclist would I be better off spending more time on the bike or are the gym sessions going to be more beneficial. Crits = weight training would prove beneficial; 100km RRs = not …

Weight training VS Zone2

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mcneese.chad February 20, 2022, 1:21pm 3

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Weight training VS Zone2

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