Takes way too long to get warmed up
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Perhaps decades ago but not lately. Here's a short blurb on Sky's 20 min warmup procedure:
from: Team SKY Warm-up - BritishCycleSport
from: Team SKY Warm-up - BritishCycleSport
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Perhaps decades ago but not lately. Here's a short blurb on Sky's 20 min warmup procedure:
from: Team SKY Warm-up - BritishCycleSport
from: Team SKY Warm-up - BritishCycleSport
Also, as with all things Sky, what they tell the public is so complex and so goofy it is doubtful anyone ever did that. That they warmup a minimum of twenty minutes is quite believable, all the rest is tosh.
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Since GCN is bible for some forumites:
How long is the warm up?
"Around 20 minutes"
"Pretty short one, like 20 minutes probably'
One rider even talks about no warm up at all. Haaaa.
How long is the warm up?
"Around 20 minutes"
"Pretty short one, like 20 minutes probably'
One rider even talks about no warm up at all. Haaaa.
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From the 3x world champion and multiple TdF and Giro stage winner:
"There is no need to spend more than 25 minutes warming up. In fact, I’m quite certain I have left many of my best performances on the ergometer before some time trials even started by warming up too hard and much too long."
The second part of that is interesting. Makes physiological sense, right?
https://cyclingtips.com/2017/05/prep...warm-recovery/
So there we have it.
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Feel free to provide some links to the 3 hr warmups you speak of.
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It makes complete sense that at start of an important TT racers would want to be fully primed. For guys who race long distances every day and know the feeling of race end after a long day of work 2-1/2 hours is not a big deal. In days of yore it was different. Back when racing was seen as mostly hard physical labor and racers were working stiffs the time trial was an easy day, a short day. A few (Merckx) always did a significant warmup. Anquetil was known for longish warmups. Current fashion was mostly set by Indurain. Everyone saw how well it worked for him and followed suit. Plenty of coaches had always wanted this, advocated for this, it didn’t become standard until Big Mig gave the demonstration.
Why do you think I am or would need to make this up? This is real normal stuff and very well known.
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Why warmup for a training ride? Shall I also explain why the sun rises in the east?
I can can tell you why club rides mostly abandoned warmups. They used to be all open rides. And every ride started with a warmup. When riding bike had periods of popularity large numbers of goofballs would show up at the start and cause all sorts of mischief. The response was to start the ride at 30mph and slough off the deadwood. It has been so long since organized rides had a warmup it now seems odd. Plenty of the fast guys on those rides do a ride before the ride to be ready for the initial burst of speed.
Apparently no one here has ever raced, ever been around racing. Doesn’t prevent omniscience.
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So that's why I think you're making it up. That and the fact it makes zero sense.
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I am not providing a link to something you just invented. Rubiksoval came up with three hour warmups. I never suggested any such thing.
Why warmup for a training ride? Shall I also explain why the sun rises in the east?
I can can tell you why club rides mostly abandoned warmups. They used to be all open rides. And every ride started with a warmup. When riding bike had periods of popularity large numbers of goofballs would show up at the start and cause all sorts of mischief. The response was to start the ride at 30mph and slough off the deadwood. It has been so long since organized rides had a warmup it now seems odd. Plenty of the fast guys on those rides do a ride before the ride to be ready for the initial burst of speed.
Apparently no one here has ever raced, ever been around racing. Doesn’t prevent omniscience.
Why warmup for a training ride? Shall I also explain why the sun rises in the east?
I can can tell you why club rides mostly abandoned warmups. They used to be all open rides. And every ride started with a warmup. When riding bike had periods of popularity large numbers of goofballs would show up at the start and cause all sorts of mischief. The response was to start the ride at 30mph and slough off the deadwood. It has been so long since organized rides had a warmup it now seems odd. Plenty of the fast guys on those rides do a ride before the ride to be ready for the initial burst of speed.
Apparently no one here has ever raced, ever been around racing. Doesn’t prevent omniscience.
Riders and physiologists have progressed from the days when riders would smoke cigarettes to 'open up the lungs'.
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had a 25 mile ride to get to work every morning, punching a clock, over 3 minutes late and they mark it down,
multiple late punch-ins could result in getting fired, so it was a TT race every day,
no time to warm up in the morning,
so a really warm bath, soaking for 10 minutes, resulted in legs that were pretty much ready to go right out of the gate.
maybe a 5 minute spin on the way to the main highway, same speed everyday, avg 19 mph with traffic lights,
multiple late punch-ins could result in getting fired, so it was a TT race every day,
no time to warm up in the morning,
so a really warm bath, soaking for 10 minutes, resulted in legs that were pretty much ready to go right out of the gate.
maybe a 5 minute spin on the way to the main highway, same speed everyday, avg 19 mph with traffic lights,
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Back when I did TTs, I warmed up by JRA and doing maybe 3 full-on 25" hill sprints, the last one just before getting in line for my start. Worked well. There was a convenient hill for this 10 mile early season TT.
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