Your training in squats, deadlifts and leg extensions will be very helpful in the off season (if you take one). When I'm on the last portion of a good ride there is something that weight training gives you that other training does not.....discipline to reach way down inside and keep going. Squatting moderate to light-heavy weights will help with this. Do you recall Eric Heiden of the winter olympic speed skating team (usa) a few years back? His legs were huuuuuge. Biking and squatting.

When you go into a steep incline you'll have what it takes to keep going because you dug down into the pain zone with those leg extensions.

Weight training has it's place for the ordinary individual that likes to do something in the winter that will carry over into summer biking fun.

(As a 181 in powerlifting, age 39 I could squat 525-535lbs in competition, do triples with 475....these are "real" squats that go below parallel)

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