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Armstrong is an incredible endurance athlete. His vital statistics include a resting heart rate of 32 to 34 bpm, a VO2max (the standard measure of aerobic fitness based on the body’s ability to take up oxygen) of 83.8ml/kg/min, and a lactate threshold heart-rate of 178 bpm (beyond the lactate threshold, lactic acid begins to flood the muscles and induce rapid fatigue). A handful of athletes in history have comparable fitness levels, including the marathon runner Matt Carpenter and cyclists Greg LeMond and Miguel Indurain. Among male endurance athletes you might expect to see average VO2max values of 70ml/kg/min.
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Armstrong is no stranger to the doping controversy surrounding cycling. Though he never tested positive and has vigorously denied all allegations, the Texan has come under fire in several books that allege he took performance enhancers.
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Armstrong had a strong year in 1993, winning cycling’s “Triple Crown”—the Thrift Drug Classic, the Kmart West Virginia Classic, and the CoreStates Race (the U.S. Professional Championship). That same year, he came in second at the Tour DuPont. He started off well in his first-ever Tour de France, a 21-stage race that is widely considered cycling’s most prestigious event. Though he won the eighth stage of the race, he later fell to 62nd place and eventually pulled out.
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Armstrong has faced numerous doping allegations against him, including a modern test performed upon an older urine sample that had been unavailable at the time of Armstrong’s first Tour victory in 1999. He retired after winning his seventh Tour in 2005. Armstrong has always insisted that each of those victories had been achieved without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Armstrong does not, of course, rely on good genes alone. Revolutionary training techniques and the application of sports science seem to have to played a key role in his comeback and domination. The goal of any endurance training programme is more work, less fatigue and shorter recovery times. The Armstrong team, led by his coach Chris Carmichael, moved well away from the conventional race-training approach, which is crudely based on ‘no pain, no gain’. Post-cancer, Armstrong began training at much higher cadence levels (faster pedal revolutions per minute). Higher cadence at low resistance causes much less muscle fatigue, allowing him to maximise his riding time and minimise his need for rest and recovery, giving him greater base training aerobic adaptations.
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