Speaking of detrimental and I wouldn't normally bring this up, but since we are on the topic.
I trained legs last Monday with leg press and squats and ruined my cycling training for just about the entire week. Here I am just starting to build some CTL and
BAM I was hit with DOMS. Now that caught me off guard because I am very well adapted to training my legs with weights, but it happens from time to time.
Based on a post a couple weeks back about the former Aussie sprinters using weights I find it baffling. I have a pretty good amount of explosive leg strength in the gym, but it doesn't transfer to the bike for me. As Alex and others have said I find the two events to be in opposition to each other, but since I am recreational on the bike it doesn't matter. If I were competing in cycling I would be taking a trip on the "
specificity bus."
I am primarily a lifter first, but I would agree with Alex, ric and others that I have found no benefit to cycling performance and most of the time it is detrimental cycling. Beneficial to overall fitness, which is my goal, but not so good for cycling by my observation.