Andre Greipel's legs

Harry B
Harry B Posts: 1,239
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-o ... tos/140348

So how does one get legs like that :?
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Are his the ones on the left? I like the ones on the left.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    By winning stages in "sh*t small races" :wink:
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    I could have legs like that. The second I start doing leg exercises in the gym my legs start getting massive. Its doesn't help my cycling though - maybe I was on the track, but for road riding I find the extra bul slows me down and I don'treally benefit from the sprint power it might give me. Greipel obviously has other less obvious attributes to enable him to drag those legs to the finish, must have a decent engine I reckon.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Genes, steriods, lots of riding or a mixture of the three.
    "A cyclist has nothing to lose but his chain"

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  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    MatHammond wrote:
    I could have legs like that. The second I start doing leg exercises in the gym my legs start getting massive. Its doesn't help my cycling though - maybe I was on the track, but for road riding I find the extra bul slows me down and I don'treally benefit from the sprint power it might give me. Greipel obviously has other less obvious attributes to enable him to drag those legs to the finish, must have a decent engine I reckon.

    Doesn't it help with climbing?
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  • father_jack
    father_jack Posts: 3,509
    He eats his weetabix.
    Say... That's a nice bike..
    Trax T700 with Lew Racing Pro VT-1 ;-)
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    Harry B wrote:
    MatHammond wrote:
    I could have legs like that. The second I start doing leg exercises in the gym my legs start getting massive. Its doesn't help my cycling though - maybe I was on the track, but for road riding I find the extra bul slows me down and I don'treally benefit from the sprint power it might give me. Greipel obviously has other less obvious attributes to enable him to drag those legs to the finish, must have a decent engine I reckon.

    Doesn't it help with climbing?


    Seriously?

    No - it hurts climbing. It helps with sprinting and that's about it.
  • brucebanner
    brucebanner Posts: 256
    what gayness is this.

    I used to body build; here's how you'd legs like those. 1. lift heavy weight, e.g., 3 sets, 6-8 reps. 2. Eat a lot! This is probably the most important thing.
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    brucebanner wrote:
    what gayness is this.

    I used to body build; here's how you'd legs like those. 1. lift heavy weight, e.g., 3 sets, 6-8 reps. 2. Eat a lot! This is probably the most important thing.

    This is exactly what Andre does. Downing was talking about it last week.He does lots of power lifting and bench pressing during the winter and barely rides. Focusses mostly on fast twitch muscle training, the guy is a monster - tall and with big arms as well.

    He's left HTC now iirc, so he will be sprinting against Cav next year in the TdF. Should be interesting if he has a good team to go to.He was supposedly denied the chance to race in France for the past couple of years as HTC wanted to focus on Cav.

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