Riding style benefits
10-02-06, 09:14 PM
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Riding style benefits
I was watching some cycling videos and I saw this one of Lance on the Alpe D'Huez and I noticed that the other riders were seated, some standing occassionally, even a teamate he was drafting off of was seated, but he never sat down. Every rider has their own style obviously but with his accomplishments he must be doing something right. Would there be benefits from standing and mashing the entire climb? I'm not trying to be like LA just wondering if there could be benefit from always climbing out of the saddle.
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Yep, that video makes my blood boil.
One more time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpblb1FNmqY
Difference betwenn seated and standing:
One more time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpblb1FNmqY
Difference betwenn seated and standing:
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Originally Posted by DIGITAL39
I was watching some cycling videos and I saw this one of Lance on the Alpe D'Huez and I noticed that the other riders were seated, some standing occassionally, even a teamate he was drafting off of was seated, but he never sat down. Every rider has their own style obviously but with his accomplishments he must be doing something right. Would there be benefits from standing and mashing the entire climb? I'm not trying to be like LA just wondering if there could be benefit from always climbing out of the saddle.
The riders that you are seeing standing up now and then are doing it to stretch their legs and use a slightly different set of muscles. If you want to do that, you should shift up a gear or two, but don't try to climb faster as you will totally blow out of your aerobic zone.
Armstrong - especially in 2001 - had a surplus of aerobic capacity. He was less efficient when he was standing, but he was more powerful, and he had enough extra aerobic capacity to be able to keep it up.
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Are there any specific methods of increasing your aerobic capacity? or would you just climb standing over and over until you it becomes easier and easier
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I actually asked the wrong questions in my last post, the question I was wondering is how was he able to create such a higher aerobic capacity over the other riders? Did he train harder or was it just how his body worked.
