Originally Posted by
gregf83
Yes, I've seen them. I've also seen major league batters spend 5 minutes in the box twitching and adjusting their sweatbands and helmet just so. Does that increase their batspeed?
If you still think swinging a heavy bat is the way to faster bat speed read this:
Warming up with a weighted bat does not increase swing speed.
There's no question you can train on a fixed gear. You can also train equally well if not better on a regular bike. For example, if you want to do muscle tension intervals you want to find someplace where you can ride at 90-100% of FTP at 50-60RPM. You could do this on hills of a certain gradient with a fixed gear bike, but there are many more locations and conditions (i.e. headwind) that you can achieve this with a geared bike.
Your example doesn't apply here. It describes a warmup procedure. My application for a weighted bat is as a weight training procedure. As in any weight training the object is building muscle mass and therefore power which translates to bat speed. Donuts are used by professionals as a stretching exercise before they get to bat and not for bat speed.
I'm simply making the analogy that riding a steel framed FG/SS daily as a training exercise is akin to swinging a lead bat in that it will build muscle mass and make your pedal stroke more powerful. It's not being used as a warm up exercise.