poggio wrote:
Deliberately put on weight
Train hard while fat
Cut weight
Race skinny
Get tremendous physical and mental performance boost in comparison to fat training
Bekele taking it to the next level. The question is why hasn't this been done before? Cyclists have been doing it for decades. Get fat over winter then cut it down in time for the Tour.
The joints can't handle high volume and high quality with extra weight. Running stress is different from cycling.