Dear Jamie and others,

I do believe in practical experience and scientific evidences.

From practical experience, I supervised strength training exercises for one
triathletes who also used to run Eco Motion and similar kind of runs there
in Brazil. His results improved after beginning a strength training
associated with stretching exercises. I know that for most of you it is just
a single case which does not allow us to conclude on the benefits of
strength training for endurance athletes.

I know that we still do not have enough scientific evidences, but for the
interested, see Minahan et al. (2008) in the Euro J Appl Physiol.

In my opinion this is a great topic for research and we need people
interested on this topic to improve the scientific knowledge about cycling.

Regards,

Rodrigo Rico Bini, PhD Student
Institute of Sport and Recreation Research, Room AH221D
Auckland University of Technology - New Zealand
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