If you want to get better from where you are, increasing your hours is pretty much the only sustainable way. You can't simply make your hard workouts harder, but you can always go longer the rest of the time.
love the video 👍 It's been awesome to watch Jay's journey through the great videos Chris. And absolutely fantastic to see Jay remain so down to earth and still just a lover of the bike and sport like all of us. he is a fantastic ambassador for Australia. Hope he takes the National champs!
Keep in mind, the 400 for many Pro's is at or near their FTP. So while it sounds crazy, you could do this at your FTP, at 50 rpms as well. The first few are ok, it's about on #4 where they start to suck. I have my athletes do these but limit the rpms to 60-65. "Not Pro's" but effective nonetheless.
I'm in the Philippines and do not use a base layer. I sweat a lot here (I'm from the US). But I notice you wear the base layer, yet you ride around with your jersey unzipped frequently. Not getting the logic of this if the base layer is doing its job. I will admit that my jerseys feel very wet during rides, and a base layer may reduce the feeling of wetness, but the amount of sweat remains the same. Is the "feeling of being less wet" why you use the base layer? Topic for a video/blog???
Would love to know Jay's perspective now on doing interval workouts on an indoor trainer vs real world, having done a lot of specific intensity / intervals on the trainer prior to him going pro. I.e could the toruqe specific efforts he mentioned be dialled in even more efficiently (potentially) locking in erg mode at X Watts holding Y cadence?
Professionals are doing my workouts. I've been doing these workouts since the early 1990s. Nobody was doing it except me. Now you know why they call me the God of speed
I agree with your new training method of high torque low cadence. Its something that works really well with my body and muscles i can maintain more power for much longer at low cadence. Been testing different crank lengths and this style seems to fit with longer cranks.i guess i have more slow twitch fibers than fast twitch.
I am with you Chris on the base layer. Got a trainer for the first time and trained inside. Saw everyone training shirtless I was like that seems great. Sweated puddles. I decided to throw on a tight running shirt! No sweat in the ground at all. Shirt sucked it all up
There's wicking jerseys arent there? I mean...if that's what you want to buy into...? Otherwise wear a bloody super light jersey which are barely capable of being called 'material' anyway. two layers instead of one makes no sense to me.
Love the all blacked out C68 Jay Vine is riding. Wonder how he feels about it compared to the Canyon. Curious to see how his climbing will be on it in the coming year
Love the catchup with Jay. He is still wearing the old team kit (I suppose contracted to end of year?) But it seems it's the new colnago, but just blacked out? Is that UAE red on the forks?
normally they are allowed to ride "no name" new bikes - but the kit has to be worn until 31st of Dec. (funny to see on Dec. training camps, were some guys have to wear their old Team kit)
400 @ 50 rpm is doable for me, I only really notice in zones > 120%FTP that trying to do 105 cadence is going to give me better power or less effort for the same or greater power. Other than that it's torque for days always has been.
the tour in the 80s had 5, 6, and 7 hour stages. Much shorter now. big mile training is used to lose weight and stimulate RBC and mitochondria synthesis.
FINALLY!!!!! A rider talking in terms of torque and not watts. Torque is far more important than focusing on watts. If you don't know the torque (Nm load) the wattage/HP numbers are useless. I so miss my powertap from 2003 which gave me the Nm load in real time and thats what I based my training on. My coach at the time went on to coach a two time winner of the TDF. Most important I use my knowledge in engine tuning to make the most out of my power tap. It is a crying shame manufactures hide the torque data. The cyclist legs-pedal connection is similar to the piston and connecting rod in a engine. Engine tuners want to know the load on the piston which will help determine potential to generate X amount in power. You would never see a sensible engine tuner showing graph that left out torque. Torque and power are some what connected. The cycling community always try's to rewrite the laws of physic just to sell products or to satisfy a cycling myth (IE: Cranks longer than 175mm are bad...I use 210mm) The main thing a cyclist should be focused on is the force they are applying to the pedal. Load at the crankshaft goes too high, your legs blow up just like a piston would.
@@oscarmarroquin4751 I've been running 210mm cranks from Zinn Cycles for over ten yrs and I just love them (Road bike and MTB). The acceleration is great. BTW I ride at 105 rpm and do my sprints as high as 120rpm. Longer cranks also means I can ride a smaller bike.
This is not even close to the main thing they should be focusing on. Your power taps torque figures will also have been skewed by gearing, since that is what gearing does. Ultimately the speed at which a rider moves at (or even their acceleration) is a function of their power not torque. Rider A making 250w @ 100rpm and rider b making 250w @ 150rpm, will move at the same speed, (bar some differences in aerodynamic or drivetrain efficiency) despite drastically different torque figures..... And even if it did matter: 400w @ 45rpm = a set torque anyway.... the word chosen makes no difference
Nice prospective, but all pros think what they're doing is the way to go, and their fans will support whatever they say, but wonder how deep into monster tours does it work out.. But I do like the difference..
@@XavierHipolito what else? Improve mitochondrial growth? What about mct transporter? What about stimulation of slow twitch fibres or teaching the body to utilise fat so glycogen can be spared for the sprint right 😂
Your coach thinks that transfer of weight training to cycling performance may be minimal. Frans Bosch thinks it’s a waste of time for that reason (except maybe for track or sprint cyclists).
You do understand that I'm the first person that ever did structured training using intervals in cycling. My Strava is the proof.. No one was doing structured training and cycling only I was. For years they were making fun of me asking me. What are your base miles.. I never knew what to answer and felt embarrassed.. Years later pass by and people start doing my workouts and forget our arguments. I was humiliated many times in circle of cyclists. Making fun of me saying that I only do 30 minute rides. 20 minute rides. 10 minute rides. Yet these bozos couldn't take me in a race.. And we're blaming me for taking steroids. Years later pass by and these bozos have forgotten an our arguments. They make believe that I don't exist and that what we were arguing about never happened. That's how pathetic the cycling world is.. All I have to say is thank God for Strava. If it wasn't for this guy Vinny pushing me to start a Strava, I would never have the evidence. When I was doing structure training in the 1990 No one knew what I was doing. They were all confused asking me. What are you doing? I myself did not know what to say or how to explain my workouts because I myself did not know what I was doing. I was just trying to apply what I knew as an athlete coming off of track and other sports. I would push my fitness in other sports using intervals.. I am the first this is fact!
Everything that I've been saying about cycling racing and how they should be training. You guys are saying it now. I've been saying this since the early '90s. I am the one who proved that shorter. More intense workouts is the way to go. I'm the one who was screaming on all the training platforms that my training is the future.
