Tadej Pogačar, the youngest Tour De France winner shares his training drills to help him to climb faster. Climbing drills help build strength, endurance and the explosive reaction needed to attack on climbs, we can’t promise it will make you a Grand Tour champion but they certainly help Tadej!
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26 Comments
“When I was younger, yes” … that explains his talent then. He must’ve been riding 60rpm drills in his mother’s womb
Pogacar 1 of a kind. Kudos to this young man
Sorry guys , but you already lost me 1 min in. Not trying to nit-pick, but you interpreted Zone 4 wrong. Even your graph highlights Zone 4 is 106-120% FT Power. This isn't "Sweet Spot" as you describe, which is 86-95% FT Power.
Important to note he uses a five zone system, not the typical seven zone system.
Use rim brakes?
I bike to have fun, so the only zone I care is the place I'm riding in. I look for beautiful view and nature, nothing else matters.
Don’t forget the hgh injections the day before
The hair coming out of the helmet, classic!
I found my “training” coincidentally seems to align very well to Pogacar’s… 😂 My usual route consists of about 1 hr zone2 ride just to get out of town (with the traffic it forced the effort to be z2) then a 15 minutes climb which I usually did it as kind of FTP test so it’s an all-out effort, and then rest, catch my breath, drink, refuel, then cruise down the hill and either goes back the same way or go to another longer route to get home. Seems I’m doing it right. These rides bring me some very positive fitness and power gain albeit I never recognize myself as “trained”. Maybe in the future I’ll go down hill the other way, climb it back again then go home, so it will be more similar to the champs.😅 Glad to know the effective training doesn’t have to be like rocket science, and it should not be. I’m always very skeptical about all the “magical structure workout” out there because that doesn’t make sense. Even those scientific literature doesn’t incorporate those “complex” intervals in their studies, and we don’t hear pros talk about them either. Glad you guys made such a honest video. That should help so many people to just stay simple and ride/train more consistently with what they have.
You have to remember that he has one of the top coaches in the world and they set his zones up based on metabolic and lactate testing in a lab, not on a trainer doing a 20 minute test. So his threshold number isn’t a guess, they actually see on the graph where it shifts. I’d say most of us overestimate our threshold number, so him doing 15 minutes just over threshold will be hard, but not VO2 like some are saying.
I love their simple approach to training with lots of Z2. They focus on building the engine and let everything else rise with it. We all can learn a lot from this simple video. KISS
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@Tadej Pogačar how can i get one of your bicycles?? Omg i would love to have one!! You are my Hero!! Thank you for being down to earth legit and natural!!! Race on instinct!! Beast cyclist! No one beating you!!! 2x champ!! And soon 3x! I love you brother!!
cant decide between trenta and manta. i have a good vented helmet already
He should have listened to his own advice today
So…super simple stuff. Consistency and steady Z2, avoiding overdoing interval training, but use them judiciously. Man, us weekend warriors have doing it wrong; as usual.
3 ways to climb like tadej pogacar:
A: Be tadej Pogacar
B: A
C: B
We love Teddy
Jonas is laughing while packing fish to this video
Z2 works well if you are a pro and have lots of time. It doesn't work so well for people training 10-12 hours
For anyone who is not a pro and doesn't race the most important thing is to practice "progressive overload" and proper recovery. You don't need to know anything about "zones" to do that. Progressive overload is a term mainly used for resistance training but the principal works the same for cardiovascular/endurance training.
Dejar de hacer el estúpido y molestar a los profesionales cuando entrenan,
It's amazing how his training is so simple, yet when you see training plans people come up with insanely convoluted session where you're left wondering "what kind of physiological adaptation am I really developing". Thumbs up for this video, I'm definitely going to train this way for my main event this year
When he speaks about 40/20 intervals, does he say 40 seconds of sitting effort or sprinting out of the saddle?
2:20 "The most important thing is that you feel yourself that you did good training."
That's a nice takeaway that to win, you need a winning mentality.
Sounds like hes puffing lol
He’s an amazing athlete