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 periodisation. 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 PERIODISATION
Anastopoulos’s key positions on periodisation.
- Periodised season planning works backwards from one or two A-races, with everything else as build or recovery.
IN ANASTOPOULOS’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Vasilis Anastopoulos’s appearances on the podcast.
“In zone 2 in reality, the zone 2 concept came after Dr. Inig Milan. And uh for the riders that are using uh the zones, the Kogan zones because almost everybody is familiar with that. It's the high end of zone two and the lower end of zone three. So it's close to your tempo zone. Uh but in order to be able to per to do some long sessions in this zone, you have to to build your zone one first.”
“If you skip this step, the first step, uh, one thing is for sure that probably can see a rise in your performance. But then you are going to see immediately a decline. So after 2 three months, you will start watching what happened. The first month I was flying, I was going really well and now I cannot turn the pedals.”
“We know that for example you need to do uh 5 minutes in X bars per kilo after 4,500 kilogjles in order to to win a uh a war to race. So this is something that we can stimulate on training nowadays uh that it wasn't possible to do it uh previously because we didn't have all this uh as I said all these softwares.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Vasilis Anastopoulos covers periodisation and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Vasilis Anastopoulos say about periodisation?
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 periodisation. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Anastopoulos's main point on periodisation?
Periodised season planning works backwards from one or two A-races, with everything else as build or recovery.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Vasilis Anastopoulos on periodisation?
Anastopoulos discusses periodisation in this episode: "Astana Coach on Zone 1 Training | Roadman Cycling Podcast".
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