Rob3rt
Man or Moose!
- Location
- Manchester
Where does Froomes Power come from?!
- Thread starter Zofo
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
araapatlio
Active Member
- Location
- Scouser living in Thurrock, Essex.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
What I want to know is where he is hiding the extra stone or so! According to everything I can find on t'interweb, he supposedly weighs about 11 stone, but he looks to me like he weighs 9.5-10 stone at most.
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
I thought that.
araapatlio
Active Member
- Location
- Scouser living in Thurrock, Essex.
He does look very slight, particularly his upper body, but I guess that he is mostly lean muscle which weighs heavier than fat and he is quite tall too.
T.M.H.N.E.T
Rainbows aren't just for world champions
- Location
- Northern Ireland
**which has a higher density than fat and thus takes up less space
snailracer
Über Member
^^^ physics Nazi 
Noodley
Guest
How heavy do I look to you?
araapatlio
Active Member
- Location
- Scouser living in Thurrock, Essex.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
He is exactly the same height as me and I am a bigger build. When I finished university I weighed only 10 st 10 lbs but was not as skinny-looking as him!
Show us a recent photograph, remind us how tall you are and we can have a guess!
NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
The muscle that matters most in aerobic activities is the heart. His makes ours look small, and contracts with considerably more force than ours can muster. The resultant high stroke volume gives him a correspondingly high cardiac output per unit time - his heart, on demand, can pump an awful lot of blood. This allows him to transport more oxygen to the working muscle and transport more waste products of metabolism away from it, maintaining muscle pH in the range which permits optimally forceful fibre contraction. His muscle fibre make-up is biased towards aerobic rather than anaerobic (sprint) activity.
And he has trained optimally to exploit this genetically-endowed potential.
And he has trained optimally to exploit this genetically-endowed potential.
You sound like you have inside info NickM?--Sky are very guarded about releasing supporting data.
jarlrmai
Veteran
Not really, there's nothing secret about this, this is basically how all elite endurance athletes body's work, rowers, cyclists etc basically anyone putting out high watts for an extended period of time (aerobic) is relying on an CV (cardiovascular) system that is far beyond the average person.
Olympic sprinters to give the opposite example are using pure anaerobic for a short time.
Olympic sprinters to give the opposite example are using pure anaerobic for a short time.
