Originally Posted by *****3nin.vend3t

Your going to do the same intervals, the same workloads... Just at a higher increase in resistance. Its a small 1 lb progression increments until your body adapts it. But the increase can't come from shifting, the slower cranking will inturn result in lower brain activity (Ullrich) so the shifts aren't going to be your resistance. I guess you could say, cadence has to always remain in the same power spot<<< Because anything that differentiates, up or down from that will result in less activity in the brain as Ullrich quite rightly points out. Another example being Lemond (heavy cranking) in training. He can have the higher VO2. Doesn't really matter. Armstrongs brain wins (as did Eddie Merckx's) higher RPM's in training. Higher developed systems. I can never shift higher for resistance (the variable is too high), just like Bruce Lee couldn't overly increase the weight of an exercise because if speed dropped due to that heavy resistance performing that exercise he could never achieve his pinnacle speed, his power output. So because 1 shift is so high in resistance, I would have to cycle many miles for my body to develop that new quality; 1 shift (at the expense of my power & result in less brain stimulation while my body trys to adapt to the new gear over many miles). I don't want that. I want to increase resistance (thus strength) but not at the expense of higher shift, lower power.

Your training harder.