Stickybottle Training Article

harringtonp

More often than not I find these rambling and lacking bite and with all the good stuff out there wonder why they aren't more selective in what they publish.

However I found the one today quite good and I think it really hit the nail on the head:

So often we see many riders head into the season with good legs and improved fitness from the previous year only to see that form disappear by April.

The normal excuses we hear circulating in the cycling community are that the rider is ‘burnt out’ or ‘over trained’ from the winter period and simply unable to sustain the form.

But very often this is not the case, and this loss of form is often down to less obvious factors.

CramCycle

I have yet to see a good training article in stickybottle. Most of them are compiled by former riders who have no more business coaching than myself or they have taken one point and that is the be all and end all of coaching.

They have the potential to be good articles if fleshed out properly.

Also, much to the surprise of many, being a former good rider does not make you a good coach, in the same way that being a good coach does not make you a good rider.

lennymc

I agree with the op - I think it is the first training article I have seen on sb that talks about detraining even when racing. I also agree with cram in that some of the articles are not that great.