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DaveB
Guest
In the past I had a feeling my HR dropped when I moved onto the tri bars
but assumed because of the aerodynamics, that the lower heart rate was
because of less effort to remain at the same speed. But for the past few
months I've had the tri bars on my wind trainer bike. I've noticed that
dropping onto them, but maintaining the same cadence, almost immediately
drops the HR by 2-3 bpm. Coming back off them then increases HR by that
2-3 bpm.
I was discussing this with Gags this morning (if you can call it a
discussion when my contribution was something like - puff, pant, ...yep
...puff, gasp, ... ahuhh ...gasp puff). He was thinking it may be a more
relaxed position so less stress on the body. I was thinking it may be
lowering the body requiring less effort for the heart to pump blood
above itself. Anyone else got a theory? Has anyone else seen this? Come
on Tam/Carl I'm sure you've got info on this.
DaveB
but assumed because of the aerodynamics, that the lower heart rate was
because of less effort to remain at the same speed. But for the past few
months I've had the tri bars on my wind trainer bike. I've noticed that
dropping onto them, but maintaining the same cadence, almost immediately
drops the HR by 2-3 bpm. Coming back off them then increases HR by that
2-3 bpm.
I was discussing this with Gags this morning (if you can call it a
discussion when my contribution was something like - puff, pant, ...yep
...puff, gasp, ... ahuhh ...gasp puff). He was thinking it may be a more
relaxed position so less stress on the body. I was thinking it may be
lowering the body requiring less effort for the heart to pump blood
above itself. Anyone else got a theory? Has anyone else seen this? Come
on Tam/Carl I'm sure you've got info on this.
DaveB