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Ah makes sense! I bow to your superior experience and completely agree.

I might have never entered a trials comp but I have read a lot on sports science from strength and conditioning coaches for successful professional athletes. If you are going to the gym and enjoying lifting weights anyway you might as well do it in a way beneficial to your sport. Also there's nothing wrong with healthy eating whoever you are.

Oh yeah rings are a whole new world of pain! I agree that weightlifting is much better at producing good results fast, was just saying don't totally discount bw, some top NFL teams and MMA athletes (can't remember any names) have started using it more recently Actually from Bracknell too mate, just looking to get into trials. Some of those random brick sculpture things in Great Hollands look good for it!

Nice one mate, great help having defined goals. From a sports science point of view I'd do a power and strength split and keep up the jogging. Strength is usually 4-6 reps in a set and power 1-3. Pure strength could be 5 sets of 5 reps with heavy weight of the big lifts: deadlift, squat, overhead press or bench press and also weighted chin ups for low reps. For leg power: box jumps, sprints, sled push/pulls and explosive squats etc and power cleans seem to transfer well over to trials. Jogging everyday is pretty safe if you keep the intensity down and do it a good while after lifting on gym days (6+ hours). Hill repeats and longer sprints will be a beast for leg power endurance but that might be time better spent actually riding trials. Second what everyone else says about diet, neck as much protein as possible, and just riding. Best way to get good and something is to do it. Also bodyweight exercises can get good results and can be pretty fun if you have the time to put in learning skills. Most top gymnasts haven't seriously touched a barbell and are pretty jacked, check out Yuri van Gelder Hope that helps mate and good luck on the comps! Sam