Power Vs Weight: The Tour de France Pro Who GAINED 20kg And Started Winning
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Published 2024-06-29
00:00 Can gaining weight improve cycling performance?
01:02 Aspirations as a young cyclist
05:26 Gaining weight to become a better cyclist
09:40 Did the training change?
14:27 A win-win situation with a longer career as well?
15:36 Do you get sick often?
16:11 A new perspective to pro-cycling
17:08 Do you ever compare yourself to other riders?
19:15 What is your caloric intake for the Tour de France?
21:09 Thank you Jonas!
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All Comments (21)
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What is your take on Jonas Abrahamsen's perspective of the 'new hill climber'? Let us know in the comments belowđź’¬
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As I'm writing this, he's just finished his interview in the polka dot jersey. Congratulations, young man!
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I like this new GCN journey- more on health and fitness and not just FTP and shaving off seconds. We need more of that, inspiring examples of people getting healthier through cycling, diet and exercise
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BREAKING: Man stops starving himself, sees improvement in health and performance, community shocked! ;)
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Apparently it worked since he now has the KoM jersey at the Tour.
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bro was starving himself to the point it was making him not develop fully which is a huge concern. I am glad he found normality. His english very good and grateful for him to give this interview in english.
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By this rationale, I'm about to clean sweep my season.
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I'm impressed by Jonas' willingness to tell his story in English.
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Maybe this is a lesson for all cyclists. The guy looks normal, this is great to see!
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Great to see Dan doing stuff with the riders as it’s here that he really understands them!
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This is so important because under eating (intentionally or unintentionally) and even eating disorders are surprisingly common in sports
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I’m so glad you’re covering this, as someone who suffers from an eating disorder (and have done for 2 decades), more people need to be talking about sports and eating disorders and it’s great to see a visible platform like GCN covering this. My ED team are actually using my love for cycling to help me recover and learn to feed myself. Still have a long way to go though, particularly with learning to rest!
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Incredibly thought provaking interview and love this content. So he 'lost' 0.5 w/k on his ftp BUT gained so much more. One major point was when he said that when he approached climbs as a lighter rider he was out of position and couldnt change that because of the lack of sprint + more fatigued from trying to keep up so the slightly better w/k ratio didnt help anyway!
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Jakob Fuglsang admitted in 2019 that he wasted eight years of his career eating too little. He felt much healthier once he accepted that he should weight eight kilos more than his former racing weight. And Geraint Thomas has said that he's only able to hold his competitive 'grand tour' weight of 68kg for his one targeted race, as it is just too difficult to maintain that weight for any length of time without getting ill.
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Jonas Abrahamsen 1,83m 58kg gained 20kg to 78kg and started winning. Me starting at 83kg on 173 confidently think if i gain another 20kg ill do better lol
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As a Norwegian, I find it super funny how he just uses the norwegian version of words, like "resultats" (results) and "muskels" (muscles). Watching him yesterday was great fun tho, first Norwegian to ever wear the polka dot jersey after earning it (Thor Hushovd wore it because Philippe Gilbert was in yellow), I hope he can keep it for another day.
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Great video. And so nice to see Jonas getting the green jersey on stage 1 of the TDF today!:_KOM:
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This is awesome. It was genuinely hard to look at some of the riders in the Tour de France documentary, they look emaciated.
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And today he’s wearing the polka dot jersey 🤩
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I think Ben King is another good example of a cyclist that started to win after gaining some kilos. And he won on a very hard climb like La Covatilla in the Vuelta 2018
