Originally Posted by
fuhrermatt
according to more recent research... they have found you actually do develop more power pulling up than you do pushing down, it just doesnt' feel like it...
***according to pg. 103 of bicycling magazine for October 2007, in reference to the American College of Sports Medicine.***
Seeing as the glutes and quadriceps are the two most powerful groups of muscles in your body, both of which contribute to the downstroke, I am disinclined to believe anything published in Bicycling Magazine on the matter.
That, and multiple studies that show that professional cyclists produce FAR, FAR more power down than up. In the order of 90-10 or more.