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Gaining weight to become faster
I’m 24 years old, 72kg and around 360-370ftp. I train 17-20hours a week and have started riding just shy of 2 years ago after having quit when I was 14. I am really focussed on my weight and always try to weigh less but since 90% of my goals in a year are pan flat parcours I feel like putting on weight might help me. The absolute power I might gain outweighs the w/kg improvement I’ll get from losing 2 kg for example. My favourite type of training and riding is endless sweetspot blocks like 5x20’ @ 310w so I would say I’m kind of a rouleur I think. How would someone go about this? Is it just eating in a surplus, or do I need to combine it with gym work. Becoming fat again (I was 85kg before I started riding) is my biggest (irrational) fear. My current north star goal is a 400w ftp. There’s more than a few guys pushing 400w+ for an hour in my local amateur kermesse races and I would love to be able to be in the breakaway for example and shape the race myself instead of just following the bunch. Thanks!
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@Charlie Meredith very helpful thanks!! I had been eating in a deficit on top of training very hard for 6 months with regular binge eating days on rest days. Since august 10 I really started focussing on eating to maintenance and so far so good. I have been flying on the bike, sleeping better and I have set new pr’s for longer duration intervals weekly. I finally feel powerful and regularly have the feeling I can keep on trucking while I hadn’t had that for a long time before eating more. I’m pretty sure a lack of food really has limited my progress in the past. I will definitely look into hitting the gym this winter. Thank you once again, and speedy recovery!!
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