Train at high intensity or race to your absolute peak of ability and it’s going to be seriously hard work. You may not be a Chris Froome or a Julien Absalon, who will be experts at discomfort management, but you can still learn some tricks of the trade in order to get the best warm-up to help you cope with your top-end tribulations.
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If you get your warm-up wrong — and remember, it’s the last event in a host of sessions, miles and actions — you can put a spanner in the works when it was all going to plan.
Ever watched footage of the pro road riders warming up prior to a prologue or time trial? Okay, their wattages for warming up are probably above most people’s max efforts, but that smoothness, lack of grimace and focus on the job gives us some clues as to how the right warm-up should be done.
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Unsurprisingly, sports science has been keen to discover the ideal scenario, too.
Warm up or blow up
You probably know someone keen to be seen as a ‘tough nut’, who never warms up prior to races or top-end group efforts. Well, it’s not big and it's definitely not clever.
We know that warming up makes subsequent hard riding easier and research suggests that it will also make your performance much improved. But did you know that you could improve your performance by as much as 10 percent? Thought that would get your attention.
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