Study article on LA might interest nerdy types

skerry

Writing up my thesis at the moment (which is in no way related to cycling or sports fitness) and stumbled on this article in the Journal of Applied Physiology tracking Armstrong's muscular efficiency improvement over TDF winning years. May or may not be of interest to folks, I know there are some nerdy types here that are interested in all that technical stuff. Also know there are plenty of Lance haters, wouldn't say I'm one, more indifferent about him. Anyway link below if anyone gives a crap

http://www.jappl.org/content/98/6/2191.full

mcgratheoin

Responses....

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/09/coyle-and-armstrong-research-errors.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/sports/othersports/11cycling.html?_r=2&ref=othersports&oref=slogin

skerry

mcgratheoin wrote: »

Responses....

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2008/09/coyle-and-armstrong-research-errors.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/sports/othersports/11cycling.html?_r=2&ref=othersports&oref=slogin

Only scanned through it myself. Did see that the first reference cited was 'Its not about the bike', not sure that would stand up as a reliable reference in many publications.

letape

I have seen this "study" taken apart in many books about LA

nomdeboardie

Old news, maybe, but not having read books/articles on LA, the above was an interesting glimpse into the controversy for me