Wiggins ala Rasmussen

teagar
teagar Posts: 2,100
edited April 2009 in Pro race
Saw these pictures of Mr Wiggins.

I know he said he was going to lose some weight now that he's focussing properly on the road (like any good cyclist should...), but, well... He's looking a bit like Rasmussen to me here!

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/gallery/ ... 5.jpg.html

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/gallery/ ... m.jpg.html

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/gallery/ ... 4.jpg.html

Doesn't seem to have lost too much off the upper body though. It looks a bit odd to me.
Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.

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  • gregssmirkingrevenge
    gregssmirkingrevenge Posts: 64
    Yea he looks incredibly skinny- especially in the first photo- Imagine how he'll look at the end of the season! His legs look wafer thin in the first picture.

    I thought he was a time trialist anyway- why does he care if he's a few sausage sandwiches heavier than the pure climbers?
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    He's focussing on the road so he can afford to lose a bit of bulk in order to improve his ability to climb and generally to carry less weight around.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Wow, maybe he'd be better off in the Ardennes. :shock:
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Don't forget he's just gone through one of the toughest events going, no wonder he looks weedy. But look at his legs in Paris-Nice here.
  • monkey71
    monkey71 Posts: 24
    It's just the way he is built....... I swapped off turns for 80k's with him and a few others in a race in Australia a few years ago, trust me, his legs were skinny then and he could still drive it!!!!! I've seen guys with huge ripped legs who couldn't pull the skin off a rice custard after 10k's!!!
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    He's done pretty well at Paris-Roubaix, possibly even better if he hadn't gone end over that crashing Italian!
    Compare pictures of a young Ekimov to the latter version too.
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  • Unsheath
    Unsheath Posts: 49
    He wouldn't want a sudden gust of wind to appear. I wonder where the power comes from.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Cycling is an aerobic sport, it's not about weight lifting. His thin legs act like levers and don't take up much space into a headwind. But he does have a very-stick like build these days.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Maybe he's in secret training for the knobbly knees competition at Butlins ?

    I'm not sure he can take the Tour prologue - but I'd bet on him at the holiday camp.

    Great ride at Roubaix - I'd never have thought of him as a contender !
  • Unsheath
    Unsheath Posts: 49
    Sure, but prologue and track specialists typically have very different body shapes, more accustomed to sprinters than climbers. Wiggins is clearly going the opposite.direction
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Skinny Power!

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  • monkey71
    monkey71 Posts: 24
    Kléber wrote:
    Cycling is an aerobic sport, it's not about weight lifting. His thin legs act like levers and don't take up much space into a headwind. But he does have a very-stick like build these days.

    Guess Ullrich's, Cancellara's etc legs aren't aerobic then eh....

    Cycling is predominantly aerobic if we are talking road cycling, but during any exercise all energy systems get used to varying degrees. Just because someone is a large build, yet lean doesn't mean they're not as aerobic as a skinny legged freak!!!! In fact one effect of endurance training can be that some fast twitch mucle fibres will convert to slow twitch mucle fibres, doesn't mean they magically get incredibly much more smaller, naturally they will change shape to a certain degree....

    Guess Ivan's legs aren't aerobic for the 199.7kilometres before the 300metre sprint

    http://www.teamcolavita.com/photos/TOG/ ... s-legs.jpg
  • a_n_t
    a_n_t Posts: 2,011
    Suddenly I feel quite buff! :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Anorexicgirl.jpg
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,170
    WIGGINS+5.jpg

    Just as well he shaves his legs or you wouldn't get to see his full muscle definition.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Pfft. Fat cow, he wants to go on a diet

    :lol:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • stueyh
    stueyh Posts: 14
    WIGGINS-5.jpg
  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    I guess the Vaughters/Lim scientific approach to diet at Garmin is 'paying off' - certainly read a few articles on this.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,712
    Is that this zonal diet thing?
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  • Flandrianfield
    Flandrianfield Posts: 15
    I can't help but think that the mud/dust on his legs in the photo posted by the OP coupled with the fact that he is holding his legs up at an angle accentuates the look of emaciation.

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