[BRIEF] Durability Is Broken: Cycling's Most Misused Metric

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of durability in cycling performance, highlighting a recent study that challenges the oversimplification of this metric.

We build durable cyclists. New performance videos every week on YouTube: 👉 https://go.semiprocycling.com/go/a9v6yc --- A new Journal of Sports Sciences paper on durability and cycling performance exposes how the sport's hottest concept is being oversimplified. We break down why durability isn't one number but three — and what Pogačar's Monument spring reveals about the dimension that actually matters.Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING.

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Host: SEMIPRO CYCLING

Topics covered

• durability
• cycling performance
• sports science
• Pogačar
• metrics
• training

Keywords

• durability
• cycling
• performance
• metrics
• Pogačar
• sports science
• training

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Organizations: Journal of Sports Sciences

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