Nice report about altitude training camps

[poupou1975]

Aritz Arberas, coach at Lidl-Trek, explains how training camps develop. Really nice post, although a part of it is under a paywall

https://cyclingreport.substack.com/p/secrets-altitude-training-cycling

 

[fossyant]

Like they work. Yes, we've known this since I started riding a bike many many years ago. I don't have the budget, or the job ..

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Like they work. Yes, we've known this since I started riding a bike many many years ago. I don't have the budget, or the job ..

It's less that we know that they work, more that they're now being used by everyone, and that there's a lot more knowledge of how they work and how to best use them.

Aritz Arberas, coach at Lidl-Trek, explains how training camps develop. Really nice post, although a part of it is under a paywall

https://cyclingreport.substack.com/p/secrets-altitude-training-cycling

The Mads P part is interesting. I've heard him talk a little about it before - basically swearing he was never setting foot in an altitude camp again, he hated it and didn't think he got anything out of it. He's famous for training ridiculously hard, and also for pushing to find improvements, so it's always felt strange that he hasn't given it another go (especially seeing his close-but-no-cigar monument efforts the last few years). It sounded here like maybe he thought the lower intensity training was counteracting any acclimatisation gains, and that potentially having to miss some races for a camp was too much of a risk.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Interesting, ta.

I remember watching a doc about Boardman when he was preparing for the hour, sleeping in a rather home-made looking hypoxic tent.