[QUOTE=sreten;15673300]
Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
Hi,
Disagree all you like, but don't imply I'm saying things I'm not. For sprinters in all sports
being bigger helps, (as does a high twitch muscle ratio), as power relates to body weight,
and the higher the body weight the less the drag to power ratio.
Maintainable power output to weight ratio is endurance, (a low twitch muscle ratio helps),
and for serious climbing at relatively low speeds there is little advantage in being big.
Being big is an advantage going downhill, your terminal
velocity freewheeling will be higher than a smaller person.
Endurance is the leveller, and you can't disagree with that,
though you state you do and then contradict yourself.
rgds, sreten.
If you don't know the mathematics a calculator is using,
you have no idea what the numbers it puts out mean.
Was the medical study in there somewhere and I missed it?
The Harvard Study said there is a difference in energy expended because of power to weight. It takes less energy to move less weight up a hill than it does more weight. Cycling and Racing have proven this for years. Colin Chapman was famous for saying as a engineer, "Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere".
The Mayo Clinic Posted this about calories and weight.
Your body size and composition.
"The bodies of people who are larger or have more muscle burn more calories, even at rest."
That is from an engineering and Medical point of view.