Could I ask a favor as it pertains to climbing. I too have difficulty climbing. I am not sure I understand the 'footwork'. When I look at pros climb, they seem to dance on the pedals. I use to think that it was all stomping down and when your leg bottomed out, merely shifted your weight to the other leg and pressed on the high pedal. Clearly this wasn't working and it was causing pain in odd places too.

To better understand the footwork, I decided to use this to visualize the effort differently. When the foot would reach bottom and it was time for the other foot to press down, I would visualize that I had to continue the stroke by lifting the low foot while I was pressing down with the higher one. Of course I also was thinking of the sliding front and back aspect of the stroke. Now, by doing this, it seems I have less pedal effort and the pain before is no longer there. I also feel a little more even effort through the pedals during a climb where as before it realy felt choppy in efort and thrust.

Granted, this is more so for standing but is the visualization the same for sitting?

Is this the right thing to do?

Frank