Nice article on climbing

Zoomer37

This probably years old, but well worth a read if your new to all this and need some good advice on getting up those bloody hills

http://www.cptips.com/climb.htm

flanners1

A good article, cheers.

peejay78

in terms of advice offered by this article, it seems to suggest that extreme weight loss is the key to future mountain-goat status. that and less hill avoidance. get the weight down to 65kg then ride everyone off the wheel.

overgeared

there is much to be said for weight minimisation when the road goes up. i recall reading an interview with shaun yates in which he said that to be a truly competive cyclist the first thing one has to do above and before anything else is get down to 6% body fat...otherwise all other efforts are made struggling against that disadvantage.

Noclue

6% :shock: cycling will for me only ever be a hobby!

1_reaper

only another 20% to lose then :oops:

rolf_f

overgeared wrote:

there is much to be said for weight minimisation when the road goes up. i recall reading an interview with shaun yates in which he said that to be a truly competive cyclist the first thing one has to do above and before anything else is get down to 6% body fat...otherwise all other efforts are made struggling against that disadvantage.

That's me sorted then 8) (where else can I justify a cool smiley for being a stick!)

Nice article too.

Zoomer37

overgeared wrote:

there is much to be said for weight minimisation when the road goes up. i recall reading an interview with shaun yates in which he said that to be a truly competive cyclist the first thing one has to do above and before anything else is get down to 6% body fat...otherwise all other efforts are made struggling against that disadvantage.

Crikey. It would be one thing getting down to 6%, but maintaining that would be very difficult. If your a naturally big person anyway this may not help. If your 16st ripped you still have to push 16st up the hill.