Didn’t want to start a new thread or side track the training thread.
Bulk and Cut! Standard fare for strength athletes. Surely the same applies to Triathletes. The best way to ensure maximum muscle growth and adaption from training is to overeat / bulk. It would then follow that you would reduce your weight leading up to a race, giving you a maximum strength to weigh ratio?
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Putting on muscle by endurance training takes some doing though. Adding bulk/muscle via stength training would be adding muscle that doesn’t especially help you move foward aerobically.
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But the idea is to put muscle on by strength and then adapt to endurance no?
Just to clarify, I’m not just talking weights here.
Pushing max watts on a turbo for example!
Ive got the bulk part right, whats the cut protocol?
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I get that but if you’re building your fast twitch fibres, that isn’t as effective as making you aerobically faster than focusing on improving that. Pushing max Watts on the bike isn’t great at hypertrophy although it does obviously happen. Even when doing hard work on the bike is hypertrophy your goal?
Bulking and cutting is much more about aesthetics rather than performance
Plus it’s less than healthy
Isnt bulk and cut a bodybuilding thing? Im not sure Id see the value for a powerlifter, and body builders are maximising hyoertrophy not strength per se.
However, broadly Id agree that triathletes dont need to worry about being at racing weight in offseason and base, but rather than a drastic cut protocol which would reduce endurance they get to racing weight progressively as a result of the training plan (exercise and nutrition)
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Not quite S&C but does anyone have a standing desk at home? I’m thinking of getting an electric one, as I’m sat down most of the day and despite promising myself I’ll do more core, I just don’t.
I had one at the office years ago and liked it. I need to use different muscles during the day and thought this may help? I’m starting to get into regular aching back territory and that’s not helped by my increasing weight.
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I’ve brought mine home from the office as sitting all day was giving me major grief.
I love it, can really tell the difference if I’ve sat for too long.
Mine is a Vari Desk pro that sits on top of the desk. Manual, not electric. I think it cost around £300, but work paid for it so not 100% sure.
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Not at home but I got one at work about this time last year and really like it. Was pretty much standing a lot of the day by March then had to go back to sitting at home and got the usual aches and pains back after a while.
Back onsite 3 days a week and building back up to being used to it again. Can be hard work in the calf’s if you are also training.
I did think of getting one at home but they’re like gold dust, or were at the time.
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Yep, I’ve got one of the IKEA ones. I bought the frame and a piece of kitchen surface separately, so I could make it the size I wanted.
I try to use it when I’m in meetings, as somehow when I’m doing more complex things I’m more productive sitting, but when I’m in a meeting standing helps me not get distracted.
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Thanks all. I will head down this route i think. a few on Amazon are frame only but seem to available fro about £300. (plus the top of course)
I thought Id get into this in Lockdown 1 and found myself extremely uncomfortable pretty quickly. If youre daft like me and think you can stand up for hours of video conferences…dont do it! Otherwise…
go audio only and walk around for it!
As I said, I’m used to it at the office in previous roles. That’s why the electric ones are good, put 'em up for 30mins, put 'em down again.
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Rarely permissable.
Out of curiosity… was your job heavily remote before COVID? The company I work for has been remote since its inception, and one of the things that was brought up in the new hire was the expectation that cameras be on more than off. But folk I know who have gone remote post COVID are heavily camera off, and think it’s a bit weird that I almost always have mine on for meetings.
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Yes and/or for me its a US culture to have the cams on. In Europe much less so, more of a friendly thing for colleagues.
Mostly I think its to make working from home more painful, because some people think suffering is what work is about. 
I have an SLT meeting every morning, cams are on then. Any meeting where I have not met a person before has cams on and our team meetings have them on.
Everything else seems to be personal choice. I mostly have mine on but if I need to stretch my back or stand up, I switch it off.
My perception was routine video calling between friends was much more a US thing too pre-covid.