Mathilde Gros - 3x Junior World Champion / 11x France Champion
Olympichopeful
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I recently did an interview with Mathilde Gros, and was amazed at what she told me..
"I was a basketball player training in youth training centre in the south of France. Our strength coach was the BMX strength coach as well. One day, we did our warm up on a wattbike. After 2 sprints I hit 1200 watts. The coach couldn’t believe it so I tried on a different one. Same result. The next September, I moved to the national track cycling centre in Paris."
She has only been cycling for 3 years! She never even mentioned that she has won so many France National championships and is very humble. It was only after someone sent me a message saying she has done more that I looked into her history.. I'm very impressed!
If you want to read my interview: http://olympichopeful.com/mathilde-gros-fra/
Has anyone else started the sport so late and been so successful this quick before?
"I was a basketball player training in youth training centre in the south of France. Our strength coach was the BMX strength coach as well. One day, we did our warm up on a wattbike. After 2 sprints I hit 1200 watts. The coach couldn’t believe it so I tried on a different one. Same result. The next September, I moved to the national track cycling centre in Paris."
She has only been cycling for 3 years! She never even mentioned that she has won so many France National championships and is very humble. It was only after someone sent me a message saying she has done more that I looked into her history.. I'm very impressed!
If you want to read my interview: http://olympichopeful.com/mathilde-gros-fra/
Has anyone else started the sport so late and been so successful this quick before?
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Good for her! Much luck!
Strength training or ability bridging sport shouldn't be too uncommon, maybe?
I'd assume you could get a lot of American football players that are RB's and such to lose a little weight and keep up the weights and throw them on a bike and pretty quickly be breaking the pedals off the bike in a sprint. I mean, that's how they're built already. Repeated sprints from a standstill getting a lot of mass moving then churning it out for 15 to 20 seconds running up the field............yeah. That could translate really well if you converted over.
Basketball seems a little bit off, but lots of sports involve explosive moves in the legs I guess.0 -
1200 watts for an untrained female seems incredible.[Castle Donington Ladies FC - going up in '22]0
