Does Barbell Strength Training Help cyclists and triathletes

[@edgarcabrera4055]

Appreciate the expert advice! Don’t bash social you will find your audience on any platform 👍🏽

[@HVTraining]

Thank you. It can be tough going!

[@MassimoSpazio]

The topic is very interesting and very debated recently among the athletes community. It’s very complex matter. Most of time I see the high weight low rep as most beneficial for performance. But recently I’m looking also for functional training with kettlebell and elastic band so to be able to execute at home. What It’s difficult to see is the same evidence of benefits. I’m just believing that apart performance I’d benefit on injury prevention and being a better not only athlete but having benefits for all the normal tasks in our life

[@HVTraining]

OK, so I get into this a little towards the end of the video- it's long, I know, but there is so much to cover... this video could have easily been a 90 minute webinar. The research is looking at high weight low reps as that's what's become popular, and also because it's the complete opposite of what had been popular for so long- low weight high reps. The research for this is simply proving what we know to be true- different rep ranges and with different % of 1 rep max (or in endurance athletes cases ESTIMATED 1 rep max) elicit different responses. Only functional training is not the answer, and just because you're using bands and Kettlebells doesn't automatically make it "functional". it's very much resistance training, just not int he way many of us in the west have been raised to think of strength training (insert Arnold Schwarzenegger photo here). NOT dived into here, are the tempos (speeds) for each segment of the movements, as well as the rest periods and total number of sets to be performed, which have significant impact on the end results as well. Currently we are still in the very early years of many endurance athletes and coaches understanding the deep complexities of strength training, and how to actually get the results you're looking for. The athlete I referred to (55 years old, best FTP of 283 EVER with 1.6% Pw:Hr) is NOT an outlier for those who follow a strength program built for cycling specific needs- bearing in mind these specific needs change based on your primary sport of cycling (gravel, MTB, road, TT, track, etc). If you'd like a deeper insight into this, grab a copy of my book, available on amazon, or if you're really after application and how to put something together yourself, the Strength Training for Cyclists Certification will open for enrollment here February 14-21, 2021. hope this helps!

[@MassimoSpazio]

@@HVTraining could be a good idea the webinar 😉