Originally Posted by PenguinDeD
Do you really have to be that flexible though? After all, your legs aren't out in front of you like that when you're riding.
I'm not saying flexibility doesn't matter as it definatly does, but I don't think you have to be as flexible as the guy in the picture.
This is from memory, so it might be crap, and the source might have been crap in the first place, but I read that a well-stretched muscle is about 10% more effective than a tight one. The reasoning being that a well-stretched muscle has to go through a smaller % of its available range in a pedalling motion, and the greatest strength is in the middle of the total range of muscle movement.
Does this make sense? I've already started on the Christmas port ...
Shouldn't this be in "training" though?