THE SHORT ANSWER
Vasilis Anastopoulos, worldtour performance coach, formerly astana and quick-step, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Anastopoulos lands on aerodynamics. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS VASILIS ANASTOPOULOS?
Vasilis Anastopoulos is one of the more underrated performance coaches working in the WorldTour. He has held senior coaching roles at Astana Pro Team and Soudal Quick-Step and has consulted with multiple Grand Tour-winning teams on aerobic-base development, threshold work, and altitude camps. His public conversations on the differences between Grand Tour and one-day Classics preparation, and his frameworks for periodising a 9-month racing season, are some of the more practical pro-tour insights in the cycling podcast world. For amateurs trying to understand how a Grand Tour team really structures a year, his work is a primary reference.
ANASTOPOULOS ON AERODYNAMICS
Anastopoulos’s key positions on aerodynamics.
- Grand Tour preparation is built on multi-week aerobic-base blocks, not on threshold intervals.
IN ANASTOPOULOS’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Vasilis Anastopoulos’s appearances on the podcast.
“if you put him in a lab she get the shittiest data you can have she's not good at all yeah really really she's not good at all in the lab I don't think has ever finished the lap to be honest he just f it uh on the other hand he's super super efficient”
“I could even uh compare some data of Mark back on 2012 2013 when it was really good with this year's data on the climes and there's was no way that he could be he could have made it back then finish on the time limit”
“I want to make him stronger first and then faster so how long can you hold on to those altitude gains so you're saying what was that like six seven weeks out from the start of the thr front yeah you uh you know based on our uh on our research you can keep it for two months”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Vasilis Anastopoulos covers aerodynamics and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Vasilis Anastopoulos say about aerodynamics?
Vasilis Anastopoulos, worldtour performance coach, formerly astana and quick-step, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 2 times. Here's where Anastopoulos lands on aerodynamics. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Anastopoulos's main point on aerodynamics?
Grand Tour preparation is built on multi-week aerobic-base blocks, not on threshold intervals.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Vasilis Anastopoulos on aerodynamics?
Anastopoulos discusses aerodynamics in this episode: "Did Cavendish's Coach Reveal The Secret To Winning? | Vasilis Anastopoulos".
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