|   Weight training help with DH and Riding Technical Trails? | dk
Jan 11, 2004 9:33 AM | | Was hoping for some more fact/ammunition to email to my friend in SoCal who doesn't think weight training is beneficial for cycling based on this thread:
HIM
I'll see if I can find the information some time. Body strength may be beneficial to bike handling, but assumptions are not necessarily grounded in reality when it comes to performance and power generation. Instantaneous power development is an anaerobic activity and mostly muscularly defined, but beyond that and recovery from it is an aerobic activity and governed by oxygen uptake and delivery. The amount of force applied per pedal stroke isn't a real substantial factor and isn't great, it's well below what you expect it to be and much less than your body weight.
I'd bet that muscle to muscle you're stronger than me when I'm in shape and you're out of it and yet I can pull you apart wing by wing once we get on bikes :)
Many great cyclists are great not necessarily because of what they do, but despite it.
ME
It's good for technical mountain biking, and downhill
drive over to Lope's house in Laguna and ask him he'll tell ya |
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