Ajax Bay wrote:
mathematics wrote:
ntl_tri wrote:
Furthermore, eating healthy and letting it take care of itself is perfectly good for a normal person, or someone trying to finish an IM, or most AG's. I can't imagine any professional endurance athlete not weighing themself on a regular basis. Not just to lose weight but to confirm all sorts of fueling and hydration questions. Losing/gaining 5lbs in a week is a red flag worth investigating and making a training/fueling intervention. Again, substitute the word weight with power, speed, heart rate, and this whole thread looks kinda silly. "If you're cycling a lot you don't need to look at power, it will take care of itself".
And addressing your last sentence: power and HR are useful for adhering to effort levels for training.
Does this look "silly":
"If you're swimming, cycling and running a lot / a decent amount you don't need to look at weight, it will take care of itself".
If you're coach (maybe you are) I'm sure you'd ask an athlete to share the sessions they actually executed.
Would you ask them to share daily (or even weekly) weight measurements? Really?
A sensible serious athlete will keep an eye on their weight, but "every day"? Not recommended.
I'm with @Sub17: "If you're eating healthy and active you don't need these [all these] data points. It will take care of itself . . . doesn't require an eating disorder with daily weigh ins to get you there."
To double down, I've seen Blu and other high level pros load up on pastas and pizza.
One thing I've never seen Blu or Gustav do with all their testing is a daily or multi day weigh in. In fact I've never heard a high level pro talk about weight.
The only one that did was Lionel in SL as he was trying to max watts per kilo. It really wasn't sound doing a crash diet going into it, but Lionel tries everything at least once or twice.
None of the top level pros talk about weight that I've seen.
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Sub17Project: Dec 15, 23 13:50