You seem to be missing the point: the question I wanted to address is,
just how much force do you actually have to produce when pedaling at a
relatively high (for me, anyway) power but a very low cadence, and is
it high enough to expect 1) an increase in muscular size, strength,
and/or power, and/or 2) an increased recruitment of type II (fast
twitch) motor units? I actually could have addressed this question
without doing a single workout AT ALL - the only reason that I actually
went ahead and did a couple of SE sessions was to have some data to
illustrate my points (since a picture is often worth a thousand words).
As for the notion that because elite athletes use such intervals, they
must work, I think you (and anyone else who thinks the same way) need
to read (and reread, if necessary) reference #1 in the article I
posted.