Faster
by Michael Hutchinson · first published 2014
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For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster - training, nutri
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The Specialized video[1] is worth watching - it's pretty funny how astonished they were over how much power it saved. If you are interested in this, then the book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists by Michael Hutchinson is really good (and very well written). He notes that human intuition about aerodynamics just isn't very good…
on “The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs” ↗https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faster-Obsession-Science-Fastest-Cy... is an interesting read related to this. (Cycling obviously, but the genetics behind VO2max apply across different types of physical activity.)
on “Modeling optimal marathon performance on the basis of physiological factors” ↗As I understand it, based on books such as Faster[1] by Michael Hutchinson, it depends on the intensity of what you do. At low intensity exercise you can just burn just fat. The body can only get so much energy from fat in a given time, so at higher…
on “Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)” ↗Riders like Pidcock, Van Aert and Van der Pole will be racing all year round swapping between Road, MTB and Cyclocross. In "Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists" Michael Hutchinson talks about how much effort Team Sky/Inneos into planing diets. They copied the way doctors help cancer and terminally…
on “How a Carbohydrate Revolution Is Speeding Up Pro Cycling” ↗