Originally Posted by
gregf83
For those shorter efforts to be meaningful you’ve got to be in the right position at the right time at the end of the race and if the training you did to improve the shorter efforts impacted your ability for the far more common longer efforts the extra strength you gained is moot.
Would increased strength help Mark Cavendish get to the right position with 200m to go? Strength is not his problem.
That's moving the goal posts somewhat since we weren't necessarily talking about a road race. But yes, it probably would help.
But, I'll point out from the linked article in the other thread, Sagan squats throughout the year.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pet...with-gym-work/
"During the season the squat is one of the preferred efforts. We do four sets of four efforts with an 80 or 90 per cent load, carefully controlling the speed is high."
Apparently the
Bora-Hansgrohe people think it helps.