Professional Cycling

I am a strong advocate of resistance training as a means to increase strength during the off season. A useful resistance program should focus on the specific demands your particular racing discipline. This does away with the notion of a standardized resistance program that works best for all types of cyclists. As an endurance rider you depend more on muscular strength and aerobic endurance than on raw power. The Endurance Lifting Program was created to develop these critical elements of competitive performance for endurance road, track and mountain bike riders.

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Professionalcycling.info is a strong advocate of endurance strength training over the traditional heavy lifting programs used by most cyclists. An off-season plan that includes an endurance lifting program and circuit training produces dramatic results for many of our riders every season by building maximal aerobic capacity and muscular endurance.

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Muscle tissue adapts to endurance/aerobic level training in many unique and useful ways. On the physiological side, trained muscle tissue is able to extract more oxygen from the blood supply and, combined with changes in the control of energy metabolism, has increased capacity for work. Other endurance/aerobic training adaptations like increased cardiac output, tolerance to lactic acid and neurological adaptations combine with specific muscle adaptations to improve performance. As with all training adaptations, muscular adaptations are substantially influenced by the intensity, duration and frequency of training. In almost every case, within the population of healthy athletes, optimal muscle adaptations and enhanced performance will continue to occur with regular and appropriate training.

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