bmhosey said:
Do you have a specific suggestion/regiment for this or do you just go out and ride one leg at a time?
i.e. alternate for 5 minutes each... etc
Isolated leg drills are a great way to balance out the power between your legs. These are better performed indoors on rollers or a trainer, as your bike control is limited.
You'll find these are fairly difficult; start with low resistance and work on making your stroke as smooth as possible; later, increase the resistance and try to increase the power at which your weak leg can work.
One of the drawbacks to these drills is that it is hard to maintain a similar cadence that you would use while pedaling with both legs; that's ok, for both scenarios, do the best you can to keep the cadence above 70rpm (the main point of the first, lower resistance drills).
Remember, the overall goal is to become more balanced, so if you are going to focus on that, you need to keep your overall training load very modest for your strong leg. If your overall training load is already high (ie: at a level that challenges your strong leg), and then you beat up on the weaker leg as well, you'll just burn that sucker out.
Start with 1min efforts on your weak leg mixed into normal pedalling; very low resistance; 4-6 efforts, 3x/week.
Over 4-6 weeks, work up to a specific set of challenging efforts - eg: 3min IL x 3min normal pedaling, 4 times, at a very challenging effort (don't use HR, just hold that core still and work hard).
It takes time to balance out a weakness that have been with us for a long time. Be patient and consistent, you'll see results!
