Every day counts
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Getting your fuelling right, pre-ride and post-ride, is vital (pic: HOY Vulpine)
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Sir Chris Hoy shares his training tips with RoadCyclingUK (Credit: Rick Robson)
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Getting your position right, according to Hoy, is the most important part of helping your training (pic: HOY Vulpine)
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Train for what you want to improve (pic: HOY Vulpine)
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Write down your training plan, and you are more likely to fulfil it (Pic: Media24)
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Riding with a friend can boost your motivation to get out whatever the weather (pic: HOY Vulpine)
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Getting your fuelling right, pre-ride and post-ride, is vital (pic: HOY Vulpine)
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Sir Chris Hoy shares his training tips with RoadCyclingUK (Credit: Rick Robson)
Every day counts
There is no man in the history of British cycling who knows how to eek every last watt out of his legs better than Sir Chris Hoy.
Hoy won 84 international medals, not least six Olympic golds, in a career which spanned three decades. The training advice of Britain’s most decorated Olympian is advice worth listening to.
While Hoy routinely triumphed on the biggest stage, those medals were won behind closed doors, away from the public eye and instead at the Manchester velodrome, on the road or in the gym.
“You knew that every day counted and that the medals were won not on the night, but in the years beforehand,” Hoy told RoadCyclingUK, when we asked the 37-year-old to reveal his top five training tips at a track day organised by Science in Sport.
Want to train like Britain’s most decorated Olympian? Scroll through for Hoy’s top tips on bike position, training drills, motivation, nutrition and more.
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