The revolutionary coach Olav Bu arrives in professional cycling

The coach who wanted to lead triathlon star Kristian Blummenfelt to win the Tour de France is not resigned to applying his methods in road cycling and has just announced that he will be part of the Uno-X performance team seeking to raise the team's level and, who knows, achieve the coveted spot in the World Tour throughout 2025 perfectly within reach of the team.

Bu, Blummenfelt's coach, will make the leap to road cycling with Uno-X

New airs for the Norwegian team Uno-X Mobility with the aim of taking that small quality leap that allows them to be in the fight to achieve a World Tour spot throughout 2025, the year in which it will be decided which teams obtain a license for the highest category for the next triennium 2026-2028.

Despite his revolutionary methods that have led Kristian Blummenfelt to be the best long-distance triathlete in the world, Olav Bu arrives at Uno-X with the intention of providing a fresh perspective and seeing that things can be done differently since, in the words of Thor Hushovd, director of the Norwegian squad, cycling tends to lock itself in its own bubble.

In any case, Bu will continue to train both Blummenfelt and Gutav Iden, the other triathlon star who follows the methods of the Norwegian coach who has revolutionized the preparation of endurance sports with such assertive statements as that training in zone two is a waste of time or his double threshold technique, a pillar of the so-called "Norwegian method" based on double sessions in the same day of meticulously guided medium-intensity training with lactate tests.

However, the preparation of a cyclist is very different from that of a triathlete and Olav Bu and this double threshold method is just one of the tools that the coach has, which obviously will have to coexist with the necessary long sessions for cyclists or the high-intensity workouts that ultimately allow them to be in the race at the decisive moments.

Of course, Olav Bu's incorporation into Uno-X Mobility has been accompanied by rumors that could indicate that Blummenfelt's move to the road that seemed already parked could finally become a reality. However, it is a topic that they have rushed to deny. Simply, a Pro-Tour category team like Uno-X does not have the economic potential to afford a cache like that of Kristian Blummenfelt.