Originally Posted by
DrPete
Your legs don't care why the resistance is increasing. All they know is that it's harder to pedal. The only caveat to that is that your position is slightly different when climbing, so the muscle groups used are different.
At the end of the day, though, watts are watts.
Beat me to it, I was going to say virtually the same thing.
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