You can get a pretty good figure based on the info gleaned from his team profile. You may find this interesting.

http://www.acefitness.org/...s-to-measure-it-and/

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Shouldn't burn more or less than the average person based on their lean body mass. Efficiency or economy would be very mode specific.

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+1 From what I've read and heard, as mentioned, lean body mass, when not repairing/building muscle tissues form training, determines base metabolic rate. Many elite athletes, usually have more muscle mass than the average person that's the same height.... but dramatically more than the average person the same weight, because they are so lean. Cavendish is what, 150lbs? So most average Amercans..... wait, there are hardly any 150lb average American Males. However, you can compare him to someone with about similar lean muscle mass. I forget the ratios of water, fat, organs, but I think he probably has 100lbs of lean muscle. So a average "modern" american that's 5'9" and 175lbs, would be similar. They could even be 5'9" and a fat 200lbs and still have the same metabolic rate.

His specialty is his explosive power to weight ratio and flexibility to get very very low and aero while making that power. He doesn't necessarily have an unusually large amount of muscle mass and to have good power to weight ratio, means you don't want much upper body mass.

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Not sure if I'm elite, just a roadie cat 2, and I eat 3000+ cals per day to maintain my weight (167-170) when not riding.

When I'm riding, which is obviously most of the time, I eat about 2800 + # of calories I burned (determined by kj count on Powertap).

-Physiojoe

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