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08-11-16, 09:24 AM
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The fitter who works in the shop I ride with usually asks people to try to ride in the drops, and then let go with their hands but still hold the same body position while pedaling for ~10 seconds or so.
If they can't do it, they're too low or their core needs a lot of work.
Obviously not a one-size-fits-all approach, but it's an interesting rule of thumb.
If they can't do it, they're too low or their core needs a lot of work.
Obviously not a one-size-fits-all approach, but it's an interesting rule of thumb.
08-11-16, 09:27 AM
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08-11-16, 09:30 AM
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There's an easy on the eyes female hurdler named Michelle Jenneke who does a little shake out/dance thing before her races, you can look it up, I'm sure there are youtube videos with 5 million views of it.
EDIT: More like 28 million views. Stay classy, youtube.
08-11-16, 09:32 AM
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On a trainer, yes. On the road you can test that too, just keep fingertip pressure on the bar ends to continue in a straight line but take all weight off the wrists and try to hold yourself level with core strength.
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I just completed the 3 meter hospital room steeplechase as I dashed from the recliner to the commode by way of around the bad and carrying my chest tube pump in left hand and and pushing my iv with right. No medal, but no mess to clean up, either. I consider that a remarkable achievement.
Similar maneuver about 4 am resulted in an iv explosion/ejection/removal.
Similar maneuver about 4 am resulted in an iv explosion/ejection/removal.
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I just completed the 3 meter hospital room steeplechase as I dashed from the recliner to the commode by way of around the bad and carrying my chest tube pump in left hand and and pushing my iv with right. No medal, but no mess to clean up, either. I consider that a remarkable achievement.
Similar maneuver about 4 am resulted in an iv explosion/ejection/removal.
Similar maneuver about 4 am resulted in an iv explosion/ejection/removal.
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A lot of them do, actually.
There's an easy on the eyes female hurdler named Michelle Jenneke who does a little shake out/dance thing before her races, you can look it up, I'm sure there are youtube videos with 5 million views of it.
EDIT: More like 28 million views. Stay classy, youtube.
There's an easy on the eyes female hurdler named Michelle Jenneke who does a little shake out/dance thing before her races, you can look it up, I'm sure there are youtube videos with 5 million views of it.
EDIT: More like 28 million views. Stay classy, youtube.
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08-11-16, 09:44 AM
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08-11-16, 09:47 AM
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@PepeM is the best! He doesn't make us click links for snarky searches - he gives us looping gifs! Be a Pepe, not a Dan.
08-11-16, 09:49 AM
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@PepeM is the best! He doesn't make us click links for snarky searches - he gives us looping gifs! Be a Pepe, not a Dan.
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08-11-16, 10:03 AM
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In regards to gymnastics, I was not aware of the scoring change, but have noticed how the coverage of the U.S. Women's team has focused on their ability to put more total elements into their routines.
And the Phelps thing: I don't see how someone could say that. I'm not a swimmer so I don't really know (Perhaps our resident officiator can comment) but it seems to me like it would be just the opposite. You have to be a very complete athlete to compete in multiple events. Phelps getting multiple medals for multiple events is the same as a track and field star getting multiple medals for multiple events and would also be similar to someone like Wiggins who has excelled at road, TT, and track events through the course of his career. The fact that Phelps can medal in multiple events would appear to lend him more credibility as a dominate swimmer, period.
And the Phelps thing: I don't see how someone could say that. I'm not a swimmer so I don't really know (Perhaps our resident officiator can comment) but it seems to me like it would be just the opposite. You have to be a very complete athlete to compete in multiple events. Phelps getting multiple medals for multiple events is the same as a track and field star getting multiple medals for multiple events and would also be similar to someone like Wiggins who has excelled at road, TT, and track events through the course of his career. The fact that Phelps can medal in multiple events would appear to lend him more credibility as a dominate swimmer, period.
08-11-16, 10:14 AM
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08-11-16, 10:24 AM
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Oh yes, I remember the days when YouTube was filled with the best and brightest the world had to offer, and the comments were routinely filled with discussions on engineering, science, and civil political discourse.
08-11-16, 10:26 AM
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Zwift intervals are cool enough to try it out, even if you've got TrainerRoad.
08-11-16, 10:28 AM
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He's a dominant swimmer. There are still a lot more swimming events available, total (and at relatively similar distances), than exist in other disciplines. There's one TT, not a stack from 10k -> 100k. You can do multiple track running events, but there's nothing like the number of total swimming medals available. That doesn't mean Phelps isn't awesome, but it's about more than medal counts, period.
And like I said, I'm not a swimmer, so I don't have a knowledgeable comparison of how much the individual events vary. Like you said, there is one cycling TT event, not several in stacked distances. But even there, you would have to be a very complete cyclist to do something like an hour long TT effort and also dominate in much shorter distances. A sprinter would naturally do better in a half hour flat TT where a cyclist who can pace himself really well would do better over an hour or more on a hilly course.
For example, there was the case of Ledecky swimming the 200m which was apparently not her strong suit because she does better on the 400 and 800. But even there she won the gold, so that lends more weight to the argument that I'm talking out of my ass.
I don't know. I just feel like in swimming alone, it's not a hard argument to say he's the greatest. But to look only at the medal count and say he's the greatest olympian? Yeah, that's silly.
08-11-16, 10:34 AM
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Ah, hell - let's just say that Jim Thorpe is the best and leave it at that.