Originally Posted by Iride01

The idea that those videos give you of having little weight on your hands is having you move your saddle to a position that isn't realistic for the other more important aspects of your fit to the bike. Maybe like a lot of other popularized methods that single out just one of the many considerations for fit, it works for some but not all.

In my case, if I had my saddle far enough back to relieve weight on my hands, then the cranks would be too far in front of me and I'd have poor power transfer into the cranks. That'd result in me being slow or I'd have sore quads from having to exert too much muscle power to get enough into the cranks to keep up with everyone else or my own idea of what me speed should be when solo.

Set your saddle position to the correct height first and then it's for and aft to where your body feels balanced over the crank when you pedal with some effort. You'll probably still have quite a bit of weight on your hands, but you mitigate that by the adjusting the reach to the bars via stem length or new bars with a different reach. And learning to hold on to the hoods or drops without putting weight on the back half of your palm.

For me, I keep a saddle height that is 109% of my inseam when measured from the top of the pedal furthest away from where I sit on the saddle. It also tends to match the quick method of finding saddle height by putting your heal on the pedal and straightening your leg all the way. But maybe that is also something that works for some but not all.

As mentioned by another, saddle height is one of the primary if not the most important thing to get right. Particularly on a road bike that will be used to ride at anything more than a leisurely pace.

And again, for me, for and aft of saddle is more about balancing your pedaling power over the crank. Not reducing weight off the hands and wrists. With your saddle level, if you slide forward or the other way when you are putting out some power, then your pedaling power is not balanced over the crank. And it's trying to tell you where it wants your butt to be.

You do move forward on the saddle when you pedal harder. But that is in conjunction with getting into that more aero position than you previously were and rolling your hips forward that gets you on the narrower part of the saddle. Not so much that you slide to that position.