i thought that haha #millionsubs

Also British :(

hahaha good call, Pawel! I chuckled at that too :D The video of him working with Si & Matt is really good, & he was on GCN for a Q&A recently that was excellent. Both worth the watch. Hope to see more of Louis!

He gets his money from the state, and GCN is in the free market. Haters gonna hate ;)

Haha, yes! I'm at 260 subs...THAT is a little blog. :)

Mechanical efficiency and skeletal health were completely disregarded. I would be comfortable saying the average person will see this and become a worse cyclist from focusing on quantitative training factors rather than qualitative health factors that they can train. You can systematically make every joint in your body healthy , and fix laterally displaced vertebrae. This explodes mechanical efficiency. The average person will focus on watts and times and not align their body, just as we align wheels and frames and forks.

@@sasquatchrosefarts 😂

So this is exactly what he spoke about - finding those with exceptional performance and using that data to look into those performers.

FIFY: "To be happy/rich/healthy, the one main thing you have to do is, choose your parents wisely." To be born into a dirt-poor, religiously fanatic third-world family versus that of two Phd professionals in Switzerland. Pure, stupid luck.

@@dudeonbike800 you need to travel a bit dude

screw all that. Just mix some epo into a blood bag and inject it into yourself. Epo shakes!!!

armstrong parents weren't rich

@@michaelscott5105 Armstrong is a Beast, that's why.

They dropped the ball.on that analysis. It may be that older riders win higher percentages of races. They're the ones who didn't break bones in crashes, or not as many bones.

On the slide there is a statement about normalising difference in duration of months

No he was talking about indurain power output at that moment 😂😂

I think more riders born in those months stayed in the sport as they didn't have the age class disadvantage.

more than 2m now

Look up the range of birthdates in the school systems in their respective countries :)

i dont think youd have to start very young since theres very little technical skills to learn and peak aerobic performance can be reached in a relatively short time.

@@scarred10 lol! Stupid comment of the year.

@@justtestingonce cycling and distance running arent technically demanding sports and mainly depend on high genetic aerobic capacity.Several elite cyclists came from other aerobic sports,Armstrong included,he was a triathlete.

@@justtestingonce any chance you can explain why it's stupid with evidence.

Train very smart, knowing when to put recovery into your workout regiment. Then be very disciplined in diet and weight. This point is where most fail.

Depends which weight loss drugs? Many have negative consequences on the aerobic system. Some steroidal ones do not, but they are hard to mask and easy to detect, and at microdosing levels basically useless.

I'd say no difference if they were new to testing. These studies neglect to show whether Vo2max peak/complete exhaustion was truly reached or not and to what degree from test to test. FTP can increase wildly in new cyclists due to better estimation of capacity, better ability to push to maximum and learnt tollerance if pain. I posit that half of the gains could be explained by familiarity or not with testing protocol and an ability to perform the test to within true maximum capacity.

Because it's bs. Your muscles adjust according to how you train them and this whole idea is long proven nonsense.

Yeah. Someone born in January can race a year longer in that class.Regardless of your birth day there are huge developmental differences between the age 13-20. Some people already are in puberty at age 13-14, some are in puberty with 17-18. But this all levels out at around 18-20 and ive seen in alot that kids that never won something because they still looked like kids at age 16 suddenly win everything because they hit puberty with 17.

@@hagenre8909 Yeah. This should be only matter for young people. Not people wh oare arre in their mid to late 20s and older.

It could be that athletes from unfavourable months are more likely to leave the sport...

@@hagenre8909, the key is for the younger than his/her competitors is not to quit , easier said than done ….time will even the playing field

David Watson F1 champions Louis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher also January👍

It's just one way of looking at it. The optimal way would be to put a big number of pro riders through a standardised test annually or even more frequently to find out what kind of effort they can sustain for how long and how mentally challenging the effort felt. Then you would need to collect data on the amount and type of training that went into their preparation and how long they have been into the sport to see their individual development. This would a) rule out a lot of outside factors that determine race result (team strategy, injuries, tactics, weather and the likes) and b) would show whether and how the results were influenced through training. The problem with this is that there will be plenty of teams collecting said data from their athletes and trying to figure out how to optimise their training strategy accordingly, but they would hurt their winning chances by publishing it. They would lose their edge in training regime.

at Hamburg Cyclassics strongest group was Masters I (30-40y). I think if everything goes right people peak roughly between 35 and 45. but befor that most of the time injurys come in the way, having famely etc. aslo most riders rode for almost 25y if they are 30. thats a very long time and passion may go away.

Don't come at us with problems, come with solutions.

I think it has to do a lot with mentality and adjusting to the environment. A person with the experience of 35 years of age is simply going to care less about winning.

Also race winning is about how fast you can bomb down hills like Peter Sagan treating his bicycle like a Moto GP bike. How much drafting you do and how aerodynamic you are, whether you get punctures etc. You can be technically fitter and still lose races unless it's all climbing.

'Training age' comes into it as well. Generally takes 5-10 years minimum to reach near-optimum potential in endurance-based sports. I'd expect you to peak in your mid-30s if you trained consistently over the next 10 years or so... it's just that your absolute optimum age for potential in ideal circumstances is more likely to have been around 27. Really key for later athletes like yourself to invest in the long game via diet/nutrition, yoga, core, mobility/stability, mental aspects, sleep etc - which can be challenging as older athletes tend to have more external commitments that take up time. Best of luck.

George Corbin it's funny you say that, to get the extreme aero position I've incorporated yoga into my regime and love the difference it makes, and as far as nutrition goes, I'm limited by budget but my partner helps as she's vegetarian so always got my vegies 😊

I did my first race at age 20 and have been training and racing ever since. At 36 I am currently putting in my best performances and I continue to get better. That chart is for professionals who devote themselves full time to cycling at a young age and are competing at the highest level.

Hey how's it going? :D

Daniel Ellis I'm 39 and I plan to prove them wrong. I heard mostly the reason why there isn't a lot of older riders is because there married or have children. With cycling your always traveling.

*whereupon

roids

well you can win races in your age category

Recreation Cyclist

Roughly 90% of the world's population lives in the northern hemisphere, so you'll get roughly the same result for northern hemisphere as for worldwide. But the effect is, surely, seasonal and based on when you are born relative to the season for the sport you're competing in and the cut-off dates used for age groups in junior sport. Prof Passfield mentions that, if you're the oldest child in your junior age-group, you have a significant developmental advantage over the youngest child in that cohort.

It is from the 12th stage of Tour de France at around the 40 to 35km remaining. Judging by the footage from it (can be found on KZfaq searching "Cycling Tour de France 2010 Part 5") At around 23:50, you can recognize at least Brett Lancaster, Ignatas Konovalovas or Volodymir Gustov, Andreas Klier and Carlos Sastre. Out of the three Lloydy boys that took rode in the 2010 Tour de France, it seems only Matthew Lloyd of AG2R could possibly be seen in this photo :P (pic is from Boston bigpicture) Another fact... 5 years later a Cervelo rider (Cummings) won from a breakaway on the same climb-finish to Mende So no.. probably not Dan from the CTT riders you can see :D

THE juice 🥤

Ystadcop what are hooters?

lol

and HornyGrandpa

Mentality plays a very important role here. If cyclists are being told all their lives that at their early 30's they will lose power or potential indeed that will happen. The body is responds to what's on your mind.

Take your vitamins buddy, that's the secret.

or EPO

You have no clue what you are talking about do you?

Hell yeah. If you mean percentage of exhaustion, I'm probably riding at around 70-80% lactate treshold for 3-5 hours if I'm going in for total exhaustion. Maybe ~65-70% if more than 5 hours. Leg should burn a bit most of the time. I've realised that even though I've become fitter, the burn is still there, but I don't loose power that fast. It has become more mental.

If you notice he didn't define what way that max value was obtained. 70% of basic ftp, yes this can be sustained for hours. But 70% of peak power output from an incremental test is a completely different ball game and physiologically near impossible to sustain for hours bar the small percentage of the athletic population.

No

6) Get a doctor to diagnose you as an asthmatic ... For the Tues

my rbcs are naturally very high and I used to have a crazy vo2 max but it's not so fun when you are over 40 and have to worry about clots

Pottinger's Human if you consistently train hard, it will keep your hematocrit down somewhat.

I’m on my way to that conclusion as well, 40 minutes in

Is he married to Chee Ting?

This is hilarious because pretty much all of the famous cheaters and dopers in cycling have been White males.

@@Jebusjoose yawn

@@Jebusjoose Famous, yes.. but do You think there is a chance there were any clean top 10 riders since exogenous testosterone was made available?

There’s a reason why they’re elite cyclist & the “average trained cyclist”. It takes years to develop the engine of what elite cyclists have. During peak training weeks they spend up the 30hrs (5-6hrs daily). Average trained cyclist probably spend between a quarter & half the time. You can’t compare an elite cyclist to averaged trained cyclist.

yes.