Men's Fitness Guide

HOW WEIGHT TRAINING CAN HELP YOUR CYCLING

THE COACH

With seven medals, six of them gold, Chris Hoy is the most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time – and he’s also an 11-time world champion. As he explains, weight training isn’t just for mammoth-thighed super-sprinters like him.

Road cyclists tend to think weight training

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