{"id":189111,"date":"2022-04-25T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=189111"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T11:38:56","slug":"nils-van-der-poel-from-skates-to-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/04\/25\/nils-van-der-poel-from-skates-to-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nils van der Poel: From Skates to Bikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The name van der Poel is well known among cycling aficionados because of the freakishly talented Alpecin-Fenix rider, first name Mathieu, who has won prestigious races in road racing, MTB and cyclo-cross and most recently out-thought and out-pedalled none other than two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Poga\u010dar\u00a0to win the Tour of Flanders for the second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But if Jumbo-Visma or EF Education-EasyPost have their way, another van der Poel, first name Nils, could join Mathieu in the peloton. The two are not related. For those who have never heard of Nils van der Poel, he won two gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics \u2013 in speed skating, winning at both the 5,000 m and 10,000 m distances. He has also won the 2022 World Allround Speed Skating Championship and the 2021 World Single Distance Championships at 5,000 m and 10,000 m. And in March of this year, he came first at 5,000 m at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021%E2%80%9322_ISU_Speed_Skating_World_Cup\">Speed Skating World Cup<\/a>\u00a0finals and as a result won the total <a href=\"https:\/\/live.isuresults.eu\/worldcup\/WC_2022_M_5000\/standings\">Men&#8217;s Long Distances World Cup<\/a> for 2021\u201322.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Might be late to the party on this, but I highly recommend reading this paper from Nils van der Poel about his training leading into the Beijing Olympic games. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Scienceofsport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Scienceofsport<\/a> for pointing this out on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsscipod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sportsscipod<\/a> podcast.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/teRs7etxvW\">https:\/\/t.co\/teRs7etxvW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Daerr (@justindaerr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justindaerr\/status\/1518371295766884352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>So Nils \u2013 who is 25 years old and Swedish \u2013 obviously has the legs and the stamina to be a successful cyclist. And no wonder, for his training program involves a lot of cycling as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtoskate.se\/_files\/ugd\/e11bfe_b783631375f543248e271f440bcd45c5.pdf\">he describes in detail<\/a> in a paper he wrote, called <em>How to skate a 10K.<\/em> For example, in the first part of his training program to prepare for the Winter Olympics, which was devoted to building up aerobic power, his target was to cycle 33 hours a week, the week consisting of five days, for he rested on weekends. A typical aerobic training week looked like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Monday:<\/strong> 7h biking at 260W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong> 6h biking 250W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong> 2h x-country skiing + 4h biking at 250W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday:<\/strong> 7h biking at 265W<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Friday:<\/strong> 6h biking at 240W<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What van der Poel (Nils) calls the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/04\/19\/the-benefits-of-polarized-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threshold training<\/a> season followed aerobic training and lasted for 10 weeks. Again, it included a monstrous amount of cycling:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Monday:<\/strong> 5h biking (5min 200W, 6min 260W, 4x30min 401W with 5min rest, 2,5h 220W)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong> 5h biking (5min 200W, 6min 260W, 5x20min 405W with 4min rest, 3h 220W)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong> 5h biking (5min 200W, 6min 260W, 6x15min 408W with 4min rest, 3h 220W)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday:<\/strong> 5h biking (5min 200W, 6min 260W, 4x20min 405W with 4min rest, 3h 220W)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday:<\/strong> 5h biking (5min 200W, 6min 260W, 9x10min 406W with 3min rest, 2,5h 220W)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the third part of his training program, which he called the specific season, van der Poel used cycling to warm up and to accompany his intense speed skating training (the 10k sessions below refer to skating):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Monday:<\/strong> 10k session + 2,5h biking at 210W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong> 10k session + 2,5h biking at 210W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong> 10k session + 2,5h biking at 210W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday<\/strong>: 10k session + 3h biking at 210W<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friday:<\/strong> 10k session + 3h biking at 210W<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No wonder the WorldTour teams are excited by the prospect of having Nils \u00a0\u2013 who has retired from competitive ice skating \u2013 riding for them. According to the Dutch newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wielerflits.nl\/nieuws\/jumbo-visma-wil-nils-van-der-poel-testen\/\">Wielerflits<\/a>, both Jumbo-Visma and EF Education-EasyPost have asked van der Poel if they could test him but he has not yet responded. Both teams have refused to confirm the reports.<\/p>\n<p>If Nils van der Poel did join Jumbo-Visma, he would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velonews.com\/news\/report-worldtour-teams-interested-in-olympic-gold-speed-skater-nils-van-der-poel\/\">the third rider<\/a> they recruited from other sports. Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d came to cycling after a career as a ski jumper, and Amber Kraak came to the Jumbo-Visma women\u2019s team from the Dutch national rowing team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name van der Poel is well known among cycling aficionados because of the freakishly talented Alpecin-Fenix rider, first name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":189113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[3621,6298,2718,6296,6297],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-189111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-cycling-training-plan","tag-ef-education-easypost","tag-jumbo-visma","tag-nils-van-der-poel","tag-threshold-training","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nils van der Poel: From Skates to Bikes? 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