How do the Pros Warm Up for a Criterium?

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10 ай бұрын

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@nerdalert545 10 ай бұрын

The only way to warm up for a crit by showing up late, pinning your number on as everyone else is lining up.

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

this feels personal 😂

@adadinthelifeofacyclist 10 ай бұрын

My daughter's still trying to get this method to work... 😬 (Okay, we've got earlier in recent years 😅)

@FuriousFilipino 10 ай бұрын

The only way to warm up! Even better if you have to drive to the venue like it’s a rally special stage, get’s the heart rate up before getting the legs warm.

@adadinthelifeofacyclist 10 ай бұрын

@@FuriousFilipino I drive 🏎️, my daughter races. Could work better if she drives; if the rider is a nervous wreck on arrival, is that warmed up enough? 😁

@alanrogala1167 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Keep making these interview style videos.

@BigBrownMonke 10 ай бұрын

Tom Perkins seems like a chill and goodhearted person

@hagakuru 10 ай бұрын

This was insightful stuff. Kudos

@danny_59067 10 ай бұрын

Love this style of video- great questions to help us newbie riders with concrete tips!

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@richjones2263 10 ай бұрын

These last 2 on Nutrition and Warmup tips 🔥 👍🏾

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@Mattskis36 10 ай бұрын

Jeff - how about your warmup routine?

@boldcord7947 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

my pleasure!

@jbp4532 10 ай бұрын

By pushing P

@harryluns 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff

@PatrickLino 10 ай бұрын

5:44 mark - Winspace T1500 and Hyper wheel riders UNITE!

@MaLdocK 10 ай бұрын

What exactly are openers?

@29203811919 10 ай бұрын

Same question

@LekkerMan12 10 ай бұрын

I think its sprinting the day before to get the legs warm

@CyclingChefDiane 10 ай бұрын

Openers are efforts to prepare the body, generally done the day before event, and generally at different energy systems, with full recovery. They "open you up" and "prepare you for the intensity". Everyone responds to load differently, so everyone has a different opener routine, a big part is figuring out what works best for your body.

@MaLdocK 10 ай бұрын

@@CyclingChefDiane Massive thanks for this. I reckon it's more about firing up all the functional muscles including those at the top end huh

@geeeforce 10 ай бұрын

are these guys paid a salary?

@andrewrivera4029 10 ай бұрын

Seems like way too much before a race but they’re winning races so it seems to work for them.

@julcerin 10 ай бұрын

Not use to the terminology… I understand the zones but don’t know what opener means.. could someone tell me what is an opener ? Thanks for your videos!!! ❤

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

short but hard effort, generally like 20s to 1min at like 90%

@Northwindbreeze 10 ай бұрын

You see the type of cyclist I am: just by listening to them about their warm ups my legs are already toasted!

@stevocanuck 10 ай бұрын

what is "openers" suppose to mean?

@Northwindbreeze 10 ай бұрын

Are Warm up routines with efforts at certain intensities done usually a day before the race. But everyone does it slightly different.

@stevocanuck 10 ай бұрын

why not just call them intervals? @@Northwindbreeze

@Northwindbreeze 10 ай бұрын

the purpose of intervals is different from the Openers. When you do intervals, you are targeting zones and a specific energy system for a certain duration of time to produce adaptions when doing the Openers, you are stimulating those energy systems rather than attempting to improve them. The energy system has to have a stimulus in order to function better and finally, the openers are not training sessions: one shouldn't stimulate them like in an interval training session.@@stevocanuck

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

intervals are training workouts to target a specific type of effort usually until exhaustion. openers are short and hard efforts the day before a race generally 20s to 1min at like 90% capacity (not all out until exhaustion)

@timtaylor9590 9 ай бұрын

Warm up? Step one: clean the coke out the nose sniffer

@punkandprovocation 10 ай бұрын

Featured: no professional riders.

@NorCalCycling 10 ай бұрын

Luke is the national champ, just signed for quickstep. Legion is a UCI continental pro team.

@punkandprovocation 10 ай бұрын

@@NorCalCycling Legion is a UCI Continental team, yes, but not classified as a pro team. Conti teams have no minimum salary and most riders are not paid. Good try though.

@1971lemond 10 ай бұрын

Americans are fixed on Crit races which is good for spectators”, it’s cool for those type of riders flat, fast, short course, are fine” However Road races are where true athletic ability is at. Time trials , climbing mountain passes, sprinting, and having descending skills is essential in an all round road racer. Of course this is the opinion and thinking of World tour riders that race in Europe and including the opinion on what Greg Lemond said as well. I did my fair share of countless crits and I got bored of doing them, now road racing was much much harder than crits any day, but way better than crits. Road racing test you on all aspects mentally and physically because of the distance involved in a road race. Some of my races exceed 120 miles, a Crit race is typically 40/55 miles. Most people in decent shape can ride this distance if flat. I get that there’s a skill for Crit racing but it doesn’t show the full potential of a rider.

@ryanallen6443 10 ай бұрын

I'm guessing lots of these riders would choose to do more road racing if it was an option. Road races are much more expensive to hold and therefore most of them have been cancelled in America

@marvinothomas4098 10 ай бұрын

And yet here you are on this video writing a novel….. just appreciate the work by Jeff and enjoy the Crit culture…. because YOU did click and watch this instead of watching hundreds of other videos…. cheers!! 😊

@SethNeverEnds 10 ай бұрын

@@ryanallen6443 speaks volume of truth! In Dallas Texas There are crits 3 days a week and we can drive over to Austin for more. There are so few road races and we all wish there were more but Crits are closer, cheaper, fits in with work and family schedule.

@christopheroliver148 25 күн бұрын

@@ryanallen6443 Agree. The logistics of road closure in our car-centric society makes road races a very rare thing which is a big shame. I think part of this is that Europe has a very long history with bicycle road racing, and here it's been very fringe except for a brief spell during Greg and Lance's time in the spotlight.