Why do pro cyclists all look like they have eating disorders?

muh grams extends to their bodies.
They only develop what helps them cycle.

Still not as bad as marathon runners.

>>1004195
That's just GC riders.

They're acually pretty unhealthy with snapstick bones.

>>1004195

All their muscle training is in the legs, leaving their upper bodies sad and undeveloped.

>>1004201
They look disgusting

>>1004210
Thanks

>>1004196
>>1004201
>>1004206
>>1004210
They also all have lovers, families, successful careers and self fulfillment which cannot be said about you autistic leglets who have nothing better to do than shitpost here.

Besides, if you actually knew anything about cycling youd know plenty have proportional bodies

>>1004226
>They also all have lovers, families, successful careers and self fulfillment which cannot be said about you autistic leglets who have nothing better to do than shitpost here.
We didn't say otherwise, sweetheart, calm down.

>Besides, if you actually knew anything about cycling youd know plenty have proportional bodies
Mmmmmm hhmmmm
Btw, proportional =/= not looking like you have an eating disorder.

>>1004195
They don't, you're just used to looking in the mirror and seeing an obese, weak faggot.

Fuck the fuck off.

>>1004196
Truth. When you train for a specific sport, you train for THAT SPORT, not for 'aesthetics' or any other stupid shit that doesn't help you WIN.

>>1004197
>>1004201
>>1004206
>>1004210
What part of 'when you compete in a sport, you train for the SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS of that sport' don't you understand? Big upper body 'aesthetics' is just useless mass that slows you down on the climbs, so you don't train for that. Of course you weak slow faggots wouldn't understand that, you don't even ride.

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>>1004230
Bruh, please, untwist your panties.
No one is saying they should sacrifice their sport in the name of more a 'good looking' build, it's just funny that they look like Holocaust Jews sometimes.

>>1004230
To be fair though, upper body strength helps on sprints and sprinters are generally have decently built upper bodies to help them generate more power.

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It is called T-Rex -bodytype

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>>1004248
how well would a sprinter do in a road race? Im a fit user and go to the gym and want to be at the very least ottermode while still being a proficient cyclist. do you have to go full skelly to be the very best?

>>1004275

You can only win road races as a "sprinter" if you want it more than the skinny guys.

>>1004226
>They also all have lovers,

You people are so sad and pathetic.

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while we're on the subject, scotty cranmer's freakishly out of proportion forearms from 2011

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cipo had a pretty decent physique for somebody actually competitive.

Albeit not in climbs.

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>>1004239
>He was known for peeling off unnecessary stickers from his bike, not wearing the Livestrong wristband which was common among many Tour de France riders, due to the additional grams. He used to count each grain of rice before eating and had water with his breakfast cereal, instead of milk. He only carried one water bottle holder and his Colnago Extreme-C bike weighed 6.81 kg,[citation needed] only 10 g more than the minimum limit.


> At a press conference on 31 January 2013, Rasmussen admitted that he had used performance-enhancing drugs and methods, including EPO, growth hormones, insulin, testosterone, DHEA, IGF-1, cortisone and blood doping, for most of his professional career

pro cycling is a joke

>>1004291
All sports have doping on the highest level. Literally every single one. It's just that some sports don't even care about it at all.

>>1004275
A track sprinter would be terrible in a road race, due to the difference in work load.
One has to maximize their power output in a short amount of time, the other has to maximize their power output for a longer duration.
Don't get me wrong, Sir Chris Hoy would probably be faster than 99% of people around here on a 60-120 km ride.

>>1004291
Why is it a joke? Everyone is/was on juice, fact of the matter is that Rasmussen was the only one able to beat a Contador in his prime, and the only reason why he was removed was because of Johan Bruyneel and his gangster methods.

>>1004326
Couldn't they go for broke on the flats and the descents?

>>1004339
To go down one has to go up, track sprinters are far too heavy for being a competitive road cyclist.
Usain Bolt wouldn't excactly 'do great' in a 10k or a marathon.

>>1004340
What about if you had a track sprinter on your team who pulled you and your team mates ahead at the start really quickly could you get a long enough lead?

Competitive sports will obviously select body types most adapted to the sports.

Pic related, competitive jockeys. They are all manlets because manlets perform best as jockeys..

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>>1004350

Saga/n/ is pretty handsome and well looking.

>>1004345
lol

>>1004345
To gain that kind of lead he should be able to pedal at 60-70 km/h during 2,5hours because peloton usually rides at least at 45km/h, 50-55 at flats.

>>1004375
What if the whole team was track cyclists pulling Chris Froome to the base of a climb?

>>1004381
Assuming that the route to climb is perfectly flat then everyone would just be on the wheel of that team, there would be no breakaways and once on the climb Froome would have to chase down everyone trying to get away or ride a TT where everyone els is just on his wheel and then they demolish him in the "sprint". that's sort of what indurain did anyways.

its basically only riders who excel in climbing that are completely skelly

sprinters, leadout guys, some domestiques, guys who target classics/one day races, and puncheurs are usually very normal looking

>>1004275
They would literally get 5km in or to the first climb and would pop right off the back never to be seen again.

>>1004195
Ayy lmao

His proportions look off

>>1004382
Can track cyclists even ride very far?

>>1005963
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record
Sure. I don't know if there's anything longer (probably not with a time goal, but perhaps a distance goal like 100k) but I'd consider this to be rather far.

>>1004382
What if you had 7 track sprinters carrying Froom to the first climb and one stunt cyclist falling down to slow the peleton?
Surely the judges would be on this after a few such stints, but with enough lead Froomy would win the tour, no?

>>1006034
Dunno, people have been doping for over a hundred years in the tour I reckon you could get away with it for a while.

>>1004333
>muh counting the rice grains and peeling off stickers
>still doing EPO and all other shit
I reckon a few extra rice grains and/or stickers would not make a difference here, innit.

>>1006036
Well, you don't pull out an EPO needle in the buffet zone on a tour and inject yourself live on cameras, right?
The stunt cyclist would be falling down right in front of other cyclist, cameras, fans and judges.

>>1004326
100%

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>>1004226
Is that why they are almost always the angriest of assholes?

>>1004275
scooby does triathlons, you can be a proficient cyclist and still look jacked; you'll just never be as fast, especially over hills/long distance, as you could be looking like a skelly

>>1004195
>Why do pro cyclists all look like they have eating disorders?
Because they are endurance athletes, and endurance training tends to shed muscle mass except where it's necessary.

The reason that track (velodrome) sprinters have enormous thighs & much more muscles overall is because they mostly lift weights, and because they never ever ride more than single-digit miles. Many track riders NEVER train on distances longer than 2X their longest race distance.

>>1004291
they dope way more in things like NBA, NFL, MLB, football, tennis, than cycling.

cycling is the only sport where its athletes union is pushing for broader PED testing

PEDs are far more accepted by every level of person actually intimately involved in big money sports

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Tell me you guys pedal at 110rpm no matter what, right?

>>1010318
I try to keep it above 120, but that's because I have a knee injury.

>>1010327

What kind of injury?

>>1010368
Knee

>>1010327
>>>reddit
>>>/v/

>>1004291
That's pretty hardcore descending on a mountain with a light as fuck bike like that, especially at the top level with the speeds they push.

>>1004196
Pretty much this.
It's like any other sport, they condition themselves to have the greatest advantage.
Swimming and basketball both have a certain body type that athletes will have for example.
I'm not understanding all the butt-hurt posts defending them though, nor the confusion as to why they look that way.
This feels like a skelly VS Fatso thread.
Haters gonna hate either way, just ride your damn bikes and enjoy it.

>>1004287
My hero

>>1010327
Took an arrow to it /b/ro??
BAM KAPOW RITE IN THE KISSER xDDDDDD

>>1005979
the hour record is done by road time trialists though, not track cyclists at all

>>1011865

>Bradley Wiggins

>>1011865
They did the hour record (Obree also did other track events, not sure who else did) which took place on a track, that makes them a track cyclist. Do you need to partake in multiple events to be called a track cyclist?

>>1004275
Theo Bos holds the answer to that; not that badly.

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>>1010376

They look that way because they're unhealthy. There's no way someone that skinny can be considered a healthy human being. Their bones are demineralized as well which makes them slightly light supposedly, but also leads to broken bones.

These walking skellingtons then need to get doped up to overcome their crippled bodied. Froome, Wiggins, Rasmussen, Contador, Schleck. All are dirty doping skellies with a propensity for attacking the fans. The pro peloton is literally a joke.

>>1006034

Froome is a cheat. There is no way that the top cyclist in the world is an asthmatic with tiny faggotlegs. Froome has shown he will do anything to win, that time when he bonked and sent his domestique back to the car to get him a coke within the 20km limit. He took the fine and went on to win the tour, but he would have lost for certain if he didn't cheat then. But what if his competitors also did that too would he have won?

Unfair advantage.

>>1011913
The funny thing is I'm 4cm taller than Rasmussen and I used to weigh the same as him last year without being as ridiculously skinny. The lowest I've ever been at my current height is like 4kg less and even then still not as skinny.

>>1011874
Wiggins did it when he was road specced
>>1011875
Yes they do it on a track but the people who are able to break the record specialise in road time trials and often are not track cyclist at all. The hour record is not really a discipline, its just a thing that top time trialists use to do a penis measurement. The only reason its on a track is because track creates a level playing field.

>>1011913
>The pro peloton is literally a joke
I would like to see you do, what they are doing, the only joke is the constant mantra "we are all riding clean" sure it makes the roles of climbing, sprinting and time trialing stand more out, but even if they didn't dope the average joe would still be amazed by their feats.
>>1011926
>used to weigh the same as him
what weight are you referring to? also I don't believe you weighed as little as he did, he was sub 2% body fat.

>>1011926
That's because you're skinnyfat without any muscles.

>>1012041
I agree with this guy. I was a skinnyfattish 1.77m guy at 60kg, now after cycling a fuckton the past year or so I am now very skinny and athletic and 65kg. Muscle is heavy.

>>1012041
>>1012047
maybe he just has big bones?

>>1012029
>what weight are you referring to?
59kg, that's the weight given on Wikipedia and a few other sites. I only found one site with a different number and that was 61kg.

>also I don't believe you weighed as little as he did, he was sub 2% body fat.
Not much I can do to prove it. I'm 178cm and 66kg currently, at the end of last year I was right around 58kg. I would guess I'm around 18% and was maybe 15%, if I went down to 2% that'd put me close to 55kg and whilst I'm not a big guy I'd still have a lot more muscle than Rasmussen.

All I can think of is cyclist weights are done in full gear.

>>1012041
No, I was just skinny. I still am skinny just with a bit more muscle, a lot more muscle than Rasmussen. Just take a look at some photos of the guy, he has the muscular development of an Ethiopian child. His arms are straight sticks, he has no chest, and he has the legs of a female model.

>>1012060
You do realize that being on single digit fat% makes you look like a holocaust victim if you aren't jacked?

>I would guess
Yeah no. You're probably higher than you think. Get your fat% properly measured before you embarrass yourself any more. If you dropped down to 2% right now there would be nothing left.

>>1012060
are you a bird?

>>1011913
t. Fatty "sprinter" who gets consistently beaten by skinny fit cyclists

>>1012105
I'm almost certain I'm no more than 20% and most likely lower, but above 15% so 18% is a good guess. If we call it 20% then I'd be even lighter at 2%. At the same weight as Rasmussen I'd be 8-10%, 4cm taller and still bigger.

If he really is considered to be a normal weight for his size then perhaps there's something strange about me that makes me so light. As far as I'm aware I'm not missing any organs and I've never broke a bone except for my little finger.

>>1012111
The flying kind, or the m'lady kind? No to either.

>>1012179
the flying kind of course, mr hollowbones

>>1012158

>racing

>>1004230
>They don't, you're just used to looking in the mirror and seeing an obese, weak faggot.
>Fuck the fuck off.

all this food deprivation has made you a hostile negative nancy, anon

>>1004254
>It is called T-Rex -bodytype
by the by, all those advertisements were photoshoops

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>>1012565

but this body type is common among even amateur riders and lifters

I dont mind it desu, been playing rugby since a yout so ive always been bottom heavy

grills on the other hand... :(

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>>1004275

Road sprinters do win road races, as long as they're relatively flat

Pic related, Andre Greipel, he's one of the best sprinters on the road (along with Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel, sometimes Peter Sagan, etc). As you can see he's more muscular than someone like Chris Froome who specialises in climbing mountains.

>>1004345

Nigger, road cycling is completely different, it's all about keeping up a sustained effort over a period of time

Track cyclists who do things like the team pursuit are therefore pretty well suited for the road because again, it's all about keeping up an effort over a period of time. But sprinters are just about unleashing as much power as possible in a short space of time. They're not trained for keeping up an effort over a long space of time at all.

>>1013636
This guy is a fucking beast

>>1013650
he IS called the gorilla. He's badass too. besides just sprinting he'll do domestique work for his team and can climb decently. This is unlike Kittel who as soon as the grade is over 1% RIP
>>1013638
A lot of olympic pursuit teams have road riders on them. Geraint Thomas, Wiggo races track, Elia Viviani, Cav even, etc (Viv and Cav don't do pursuit but there are other track events)

i keep trying to tell the fatties on another board that exercise is more important than diet for losing weight but they refuse to listen because lazy people just don't want to move their body

>>1013650

He isis an absolute beast but whenever I see him racing in the final I always want someone else to beat him. I don't know why...interestingly that goes for Kittel as well. Maybe its because they look like 80s action film bad guys.