I've never been so unfit - and 厳密に's to 非難する: Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton on why dancing is no 代用品,人 for cycling


  • The cycling 星/主役にする has lost nearly a 石/投石する since she began dancing
  • Says 負わせる loss 予定 to muscles 弱めるing and she can't wait till it's all over

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Back on the bike: Victoria Pendleton flies in on a BMX to perform the paso doble

支援する on the bike: Victoria Pendleton 飛行機で行くs in on a BMX to 成し遂げる the paso doble

For most 厳密に Come Dancing contestants, training for up to eight hours a day is a chance to shed some 負わせる and 改善する fitness.

But for Olympic cycling 支持する/優勝者 Victoria Pendleton, it seems daily practice 開会/開廷/会期s with professional dance partner Brendan Cole just aren’t gruelling enough.

The 星/主役にする, who 成し遂げるd a みごたえのある paso doble on the BBC show last night that opened with her ‘飛行機で行くing’ in on a BMX bike, has lost nearly a 石/投石する since she began dancing in September.

But Ms Pendleton, who won a gold and silver メダル at the London Olympics before retiring from professional cycling, says her 負わせる loss is 負かす/撃墜する to her muscle s 弱めるing and that she can’t wait until the 競争 is over so she can 再開する her fitness 政権.

In an interview ahead of last night’s live 厳密に special, the 32-year-old, who had been cycling competitively since the age of nine, said: ‘My 団体/死体 has changed. I’m a lot はしけ, I’ve lost 11lb of muscle 集まり and I am a little bit fatter ? I’m not as lean as I was.

‘I am not happy with it to be honest. I have never been more unfit in my entire life than I am now.?

'It’s not a different type of fitness. I was an Olympic 競技者 at the 最高の,を越す of my game, I can’t 持続する my fitness.

'I don’t have the 技術s to dance hard enough or for that duration or remember enough to 発揮する myself.

‘To be honest, I am really looking 今後 to getting 支援する in the gym and getting 支援する into a 正規の/正選手 決まりきった仕事 of cycling to keep fit because I love it.

In a dream world I would love to be able to 持続する my Olympic 団体/死体 composition without training, but it doesn’t work like that.’

Cycling star Victoria Pendleton, whose dance opened with her flying in on a BMX bike, as lost nearly a stone since she began dancing in September

Cycling 星/主役にする Victoria Pendleton, whose dance opened with her 飛行機で行くing in on a BMX bike, as lost nearly a 石/投石する since she began dancing in September

Not gruelling enough: Victoria Pendleton has said she can't wait to get back to a fitness regime. She said she has 'never been more unfit in my entire life than I am now'

Not gruelling enough: Victoria Pendleton has said she can't wait to get 支援する to a fitness 政権. She said she has 'never been more unfit in my entire life than I am now'

Top of her game: Victoria Pendleton (seen here racing against Anna Meares) labels her dancing a 'different type of fitness' to the one she had at the Olympic Games

最高の,を越す of her game: Victoria Pendleton (seen here racing against Anna Meares) labels her dancing a 'different type of fitness' to the one she had at the オリンピック

Last night the 競技者 and her partner were の中で nine remaining couples competing on 厳密に’s ‘Dancing Through the 10年間s’ program me. The results show tonight will feature live 業績/成果s from Kylie Minogue and Girls Aloud.

But Ms Pendleton was not fazed by 成し遂げるing in 前線 of an audience of 6,000 at Wembley 円形競技場, 説: ‘I don’t see 厳密に as 特に high 圧力 or stressful. I am hard on myself because? I want to remember the 決まりきった仕事, but the 結果 is irrelevant.’


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