Originally Posted by
lkngro
I get the point that the loads and forces experienced in cycling doesn't get you "real" strength and no "Resistance Training 101" book will tell you to do 1000 reps of anything, but if you do 1000 reps of 5 pounds vs 1000 reps of 10 pounds, you will gain more strength in the second case. You won't get rippling, massive quads and squat 600 pounds, but if you intentionally train by doing hill repeats on your highest gear, you will be stronger than if you did them at a lower gear. That's the point I was trying to make with resistance training. I think we disagree on the magnitude of the strength developed, but fundamentally, I think we agree. More beneficial than "strength" training for cycling is threshold training and anaerobic training. THAT impacts your ability to output more power for longer periods of time significantly. Runners have known that forever.
Nope, you still don't get it. If you do 1000 reps with either weight, you will not get stronger. You throw out words like threshold and anaerobic training, but you clearly don't understand what they mean, and you don't actually do any real training. If you think that you are getting stronger, and by stronger I mean faster, by using your biggest gear to mash on hill repeats, then you are always going to be slow. The thing that matters in cycling training is POWER, which is a combination of cadence and gearing. If it takes you longer to do hill repeats using a 53x11 because you can only pedal 50rpm compared to 90 rpm with 39x13 then you aren't training as hard. Take your meathead mindset out of here, it has no application to actual cycling training.