Originally Posted by HazeT

I'm trying to learn how to stand up and pedal keeping the pace I had when I was seating. The way I'm doing is I shift a few gears higher when I stand up so I drop the cadence from ~95 to ~65 and have some resistance.
My problem is that I either keep accelerating and thus increasing cadence, having to shift higher again to a point it's just not sustainable... too much lactate
or my pedaling feels completely awkward where I have to hold back on each pedal stroke in order to try to maintain the pace, it seems like a big effort as I'm using my energy to reduce the momentum on my legs.

Any tips on how am I supposed to do stand up riding on flats without increasing my pace?