lose weight - race great?
 

Weight obviously is an important factor but I'm sure there has to be a trade-off somewhere. This was prompted by a picture of Bradley Wiggins at P-R, he states he has been losing (sorry, this is teh internet, I mean loosing)weight to help him concentrate on road racing.

But, I mean, blimey!

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/galle.../WIGGINS+5.jpg

Anyone out there felt that they have lost too much weight and it has hindered them?

Damn, he looks like an AIDS case.

When I got down to 150 or a few clicks below I didn't feel as strong and thought my sprint really suffered.

I think there is a trade off for us mere mortals.

I had a teammate last year with a bit of an eating problem, and he ended up being completely useless all season. He was a former u23 national team guy, so for him to go from super fast to completely useless was pretty huge.

inneresting, indeed.

That is pretty disgusting looking......

Hes still too fat for this sport

yuck.

what, no Rasmussen picture?

http://www.professionalcycling.info/.../rasmussen.jpg

The chicken almost looks healthy in comparison.

robert millar, the man who would ride 200km to eat a salad.

btw - wiggins on the road.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...to/wiggins.jpg

I went from 190 to 180 and noticed a significant improvement in my climbing. Of course, my method for dropping the weight was lots of miles so that might've helped too.

Then I got really sick with an intestinal bug and got down to 164. I lost all kinds of strength / fitness, but noticed I can still climb with the leaders. Odd, huh?

I bet one of those kids on the left is saying to the other something like "Look at that bony arsed skeleton in the argyle!"

Yup.

I went from 180 last year to the 165 range and can climb much better but still suck at it. My FTP went up as well.

I went from 182 last year to 170 in January back up to 178. Yay me.

Too much beer I guess.

Down 10 pounds from last year (hovering @ 165lbs). What has it done? Well, er ... let me think on it.

I started cycling at 140 and I'm now 160-163. I'm doing it wrong :D

I bet you increased your power output...

When I first got serious about cycling I didn't understand that I needed to eat more and better to support it.
I'd been a runner before that, and my training had been limited by injury. The difference between 45 minutes a day and three hours a day is a lot of calories.

I'm 6' tall and got as low as 127 lbs before I figured out something was wrong. I don't know what it did to my performance as I was still learning what I was doing on a bike. Eventually I figured out that my healthy race weight was around 138 lbs. That was when I was 29, now at 48 it's more like 141- I can't get quite as lean and I am trying to carry a bit more muscle.

just a smidge :)

If all goes as planned, I will look close to this come Monday (dirt, face o' pain, and all).
I've scheduled 9 hours, 5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday with three of the fastest guys around here. One is an X pro who was on Lemonds Worlds team. I heard Saturday we're doing 1200' of climbing.

Dear Lord have mercy.

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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senio...rge/lemons.jpg

btw - if you mean LeMond's world's team, ask him why he was so useless. :innocent:

Easy.... Easy