Originally Posted by
SpeshulEd
Forgive me if this has been addressed, I kinda lost track of this tread.
Do you think you'd burn more calories spinning or mashing? I was thinking about this the other day as I was riding into a head wind. I was putting more force into pedaling a higher gear, but turning the cranks a lot more in a lower gear? A power meter would probably tell me this in a couple of minutes.
Hi,
Whichever way you can go faster will burn more calories, for a given distance.
Into a headwind go as fast as you can, that may involve a lower gear than you think.
Generally most people on a long haul can put out more power and go faster, spinning.
rgds, sreten.