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 threshold training. 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 THRESHOLD TRAINING
Anastopoulos’s key positions on threshold training.
- 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.
“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.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Vasilis Anastopoulos covers threshold training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Vasilis Anastopoulos say about threshold training?
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 threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Anastopoulos's main point on threshold training?
Grand Tour preparation is built on multi-week aerobic-base blocks, not on threshold intervals.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Vasilis Anastopoulos on threshold training?
Anastopoulos discusses threshold training in this episode: "Astana Coach on Zone 1 Training | Roadman Cycling Podcast".
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