Sir Chris Hoy’s golden training rules

Britain’s most decorated Olympian tells Cycling Weekly about his approach to training and how to make it work for you

Ignore the hearsay

“In 1996 when I rode for the team [Team GB] for the first time, there were just two full-time members of staff. We didn’t have a coaching support network or sports science back-up or much nutritional knowledge… a lot of it was based on guesswork.

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