Originally Posted by
Duke of Kent
How does gaining muscle mass do anything besides increase your MAXIMUM (sprint) potential power output?
Anything else lower than that is based on your aerobic and anaerobic systems. To think anything other than that is ignoring basic and proven physiology.
Seriously: how does gaining mass help improve your power (non-max) if you don't improve the aerobic/anaerobic system to actually produce the power?
Think about that, then get back to me.
And this would be a bad thing how? Last time I checked most crits and road races end in a sprint. Why is everything around here have to be mutually exclusive. upgrades without fitness, weight lifting without riding. Maybe just maybe some of us crazy folks actually do both. Of the riders I've talked with around here(ranging from cat5's to a UCI pro) many of them do the gym AND I found this out while riding with them. Aerobic base and increased muscle mass for sprinting, I'm waiting for the black hole to open and suck me right off the road.
