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Old 01-28-19, 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by carleton
You ever hear stories about roadies who retire for years then train for a month and can win competitive crits? The saying is that it's because he/she "has thousands of miles in their legs".

Here's the proof that the phenomona is real.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_relea...-mmd011719.php

More details: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles...018.01887/full



That last part is interesting, too. Basically, the benefits of steroid use don't go away after atrophy. The muscles continue to be conditioned and can easily return to that form without the use of steroids in the future.
It's always interesting when science finds an explanation for things that people always kind of "knew" or at least "felt" was true.

I certainly feel like it comes back to me a lot faster than when I first started riding, and I was never that fast to begin with.
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