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Originally Posted by seypat
(Post 13434521)
A simple vertical jump test will tell you what you need to know.
If you are a high riser, then you are fast twitch dominate. But if you can barely see daylight between the floor and your soles, then you are slow twitch dominate. I think now 20 inches of vertical seems to be the cut line. Above that, you are an "elevator man." Below that, grounded. |
Originally Posted by seypat
(Post 13434787)
As a follow up post, on another thread I used this example about the added muscle. Go out, do yourself a nice 30-40 mile varied terrain route and note your results. Now clone yourself and get a tandem. You and your clone mount the tandem then do the same route. The tandem version will have totally different results than yourself. Despite being twice as heavy, the tandem version will be significantly faster in the flats. But on the hills and climbs(because of the weight) will struggle and be searching for more gears.
The reason the tandem will do better on the flats isn't just the extra power -- the stoker effectively drafts the captain, making the total air resistance much less than the total from 2 separate riders. IE, the two riders have to produce less power to generate the same speed on the tandem as they would if they were on separate bikes. |
Originally Posted by asgelle
(Post 13434770)
And why do you think the power you produce depends on the direction of gravity? Don't you think it might have more to do with W/CdA vs. W/kg?
You can do a simple test yourself with a back pack and something for ballast. Go out with 20-30lbs in the backpack and do some hills and note your results over your ride without the ballast. |
OP,
You are lazy! Type in fast twitch muscle fibers into any search engine and educate yourself. |
Originally Posted by ColinL
(Post 13434635)
Then he wrote that myth himself in his autobiography It's not about the Bike. I just re-read it last month during some work travel.
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Back to sprinting:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post12962597 It's easy to tell if you're a sprinter - if you do a group ride and wonder why no one else sprinted for the sprint at the end of the group ride, you're a sprinter. Or if you think you sprinted to the wrong sign because everyone is so far back and going really slow. Or you sprinted on the wrong lap because no one is sprinting behind you, at least not that you can tell. Or you sit up well before the actual sign/line/whatever because you're already 50 feet ahead of the next guy. Or you're about to jump and you're wondering why everyone is going so slow 100 meters from the line. Seriously, that'll be your experience if you're a sprinter and you don't know it yet. If those scenarios seem foreign to you then you need to figure out a different way to try and win races. |
Originally Posted by carpediemracing
(Post 13435003)
Back to sprinting:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post12962597 It's easy to tell if you're a sprinter - if you do a group ride and wonder why no one else sprinted for the sprint at the end of the group ride, you're a sprinter. Or if you think you sprinted to the wrong sign because everyone is so far back and going really slow. Or you sprinted on the wrong lap because no one is sprinting behind you, at least not that you can tell. Or you sit up well before the actual sign/line/whatever because you're already 50 feet ahead of the next guy. Or you're about to jump and you're wondering why everyone is going so slow 100 meters from the line. Seriously, that'll be your experience if you're a sprinter and you don't know it yet. If those scenarios seem foreign to you then you need to figure out a different way to try and win races. That's a good thread. I've raced against guys who held world records at sprint distances, and a 2 time Olympian on the track. They can spend a month on the beach, step out of a bar after a six pack and a Philly Cheesteak and win. They just don't win as often if they don't train. Most of the people that pass as "sprinters" are called "pack fodder" once you get up the food chain. You don't see a lot of them in the lower ranks because they tend to blow through in a hurry. |
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