Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Although the science also says that bike riding won't to anything for one's bones. Plyometrics is good for that, as is low rep high load weight training. I worked out at a gym which had a regular who was an international level powerlifter. He was about 5'6" and could do a standing jump to the top of a 3' box. That's power which had taken him years to develop. He squatted at least 500 lbs. for reps. Five weeks ain't gonna do that. Studies are frequently designed to prove a point, which may be a totally valid point if one stays within the study's parameters, in fact the parameters may have been chosen to do exactly that.
Of course sprinters do both strength and sprint training, which tells us that sprint training without strength training is not optimal. Here's a strength training study which shows how it's supposed to be done. Note the long period of strength maintenance which allows the cyclists to improve their ability to use their added strength to increase power at the pedals:
https://www.academia.edu/14473993/St...elite_cyclists
And here's a study which shows how complicated this sprint training thing is:
https://www.academia.edu/83840880/Ma...sprint_cycling