Bodybuilders weight train for size, weightlifters for strength without bulk to stay in their weight class. You can damage muscle fibre with high reps to failure and a bit of recovery between sets and they'll look big cos they are filled with fluid. Or you can make the muscle fibres you have already work smarter and harder with lower reps of higher weight with loads of recovery between sets.
If you want to go faster on a bike you want smart muscles not big. Myofibrillar hypertrophy FTW!
That's interesting. I don't know anything much about weight training, and not really intending to get into it, but... where does stamina come into this? From experience I have a decent sprint (comparatively) when I'm fit, but to get fit I work for endurance. I was always under the impression that more reps of lower weight would be more beneficial than fewer reps of higher weight.
Is what you said more true for power than endurance?
@JC
That's interesting. I don't know anything much about weight training, and not really intending to get into it, but... where does stamina come into this? From experience I have a decent sprint (comparatively) when I'm fit, but to get fit I work for endurance. I was always under the impression that more reps of lower weight would be more beneficial than fewer reps of higher weight.
Is what you said more true for power than endurance?