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Old 03-27-19, 05:01 PM
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Chris, don't be discouraged by the lack of responses.

Training programs often come up here and are difficult comment on being that they are very personal and cover such a long period of time weekly programs for an entire year. An individual program may (should) change almost weekly based on the day of the week, the week within the block of weeks, the month within the year, and how close one is to minor and major events.

For example: It's March now. Folks in Atlanta are getting ready to start racing on this coming Tuesday as the season starts (DLV races a full 6 months). So, a typical DLV sprinter type will be lifting heavy (squatting) 3x/week during the winter and drop down to 2x/week when racing starts in April. The idea being that racing 1x/week is a great replacement for the dropped lifting day. Thus adding in needed functional strength training with the added bonus of aerobic work, bike handling at speed, pack racing skills, etc...

BUT...a guy like me (sprinter type) who didn't care much about early season racing, would continue to lift heavy 3x/week and only race maybe once every 2 weeks for the other benefits but not on-bik strength training.

Also, high-cadence work isn't really useful the further you are away from racing. Legspeed comes on quickly and dissipates quickly. Strength comes on slowly but dissipates slowly. So, it really depends on where you are in your annual program. Some only focus on legspeed a few weeks out from their big race of the year (Nationals, Worlds, whatever).
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