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Cyclists mustn't push themselves that hard if they never cramp up in a race. And to be honest cycling up all them hills without a beer belly is just cheating, they are just taking the easy option, the big girls blouses.
But the schedule that cyclists seem to undergo seems particularly punishing. Witness the interview with Wiggo on the signing on sheet at the start of the Tour of Britain - he said he'd arrived last night at midnight having been at a dinner party engagement and hadn't the faintest idea who was here or what the plan was!
Not many professional sports where a competitor wouldn't get a good rollicking from his manager/boss/team mates, for being out late the night before competition.
When have you ever seen a baseball playing in a world of pain...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schilling_Tendon_Procedure
Just because it's not a cardiovascular sport doesn't mean they're not pushing the limits of human ability. The number of baseball players on the DL at any one time is enormous.
Here's a question (kind of in context) - would you consider F1 drivers to be sportsmen/athletes? Given the physical strength and endurance training they go through, I certainly would..
F1 drivers to be sportsmen/athletes
Don't a lot cycle as a form of cross training? In fact is cycling not used as a form of cross training for a whole heap of sports? However isn't the only cross training cyclist do cyclocross?
In the biography book Sky say they raced 250-odd days/365 in 2009/10. That's mental. Remember that's just racing, so training fits round that...
Funny how most of you here are raving about the hardness of professional cyclism. Builders work more than 300 days a year, through all sorts of weather, 8 hours a day of physical labour and yet none of you seems to think it's hard.
But in fairness if you were to break down the hours per day working then look at it you would probably be more like 25 days of the year working (this is not my real opinion).
Not many professional sports where a competitor wouldn't get a good rollicking from his manager/boss/team mates, for being out late the night before competition.
I got the impression it was a promotional/professional engagement.
To the OP, the big difference for say pro cycling and tennis and many other Olympic sports is that the Olympics is the be all and end all so once it's over there's nothing else to train for that season. That's not the case for pro cycling.
To the OP, the big difference for say pro cycling and tennis and many other Olympic sports is that the Olympics is the be all and end all so once it's over there's nothing else to train for that season. That's not the case for pro cycling.
Is that why team GB men's football team forgot to actually turn up to the Olympics?
LOL@ this thread.
Pathetic replies too. Sorry but I wouldn't be suprised by pro's shaking their heads at this thread and some of the replies without logic or experience of racing/training/critical thought and comparing like for like.
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