why not if my power increases by 10% and my mass increases by <10% my watts/kilo increasesacoggan said:In a word, no.
why not if my power increases by 10% and my mass increases by <10% my watts/kilo increasesacoggan said:In a word, no.
why then do most of the guys i race against have bigger legs and faster sprints?Fday said:Possibly, but only if you trained those muscles to have cycling endurance. In general, increasing muscle mass will not help your cycling. The muscles you already have are likely more than adequate for most types of racing, if you train them properly and use them better.
Why don't we define cycling strength as the maximum force that can be applied through a distance of 14 inches 90 times a minute for an hour. Is that specific enough? To say that strength doesn't matter is the same as saying weakness doesn't matter. Doesn't matter how weak you are you can become an elite cyclist. Maximum one time repetition strength doesn't matter. Endurance strength (perhaps as defined above) matters.acoggan said:The precise communication of precise concepts requires the precise use of precise terminology. Anything else just results in unnecessary confusion.
That's because performance in a kilometer or 500 m is heavily influenced by the time required to accelerate up to speed, an act which must be accomplished from an initial cadence of zero. In contrast, strength is not an important determinant of performance in something like a flying 200 m TT (although somebody who can do a really fast flying 200 m is likely to be stronger than average).
jamesstout said:why not if my power increases by 10% and my mass increases by <10% my watts/kilo increases
Fday said:Why don't we define cycling strength as the maximum force that can be applied through a distance of 14 inches 90 times a minute for an hour.
Perhaps they are better trained. Perhaps they have better technique. Perhaps they have better endurance so they come to the sprint fresher. It is unlikely that it is just because they have bigger legs. Want big legs, put an NFL lineman on a bike and see how he does in those sprints.jamesstout said:why then do most of the guys i race against have bigger legs and faster sprints?
jamesstout said:why then do most of the guys i race against have bigger legs and faster sprints?
Cool. I don't deny that is a definition. I just deny that is the only definition or the only definition relevant to cycling. Maximum strength that can be sustained for a certain number of repetitions is another equally valid definition. Maybe strength should always have a number after it referring to the number of repetitions. You are referring to strength (1). I am referring to strength (5400). I agree strength (1) has little to do with cycling. I believe strength (5400) has a lot to do with cycling.ric_stern/RST said:Just because you think the definition isn't correct, doesn't alter it. The definition of strength is the maximal force generating capacity of a muscle or group of muscles. End of. Silly, or not.
Ric
naah iget there fresh i just cant burn it up when the big boys kick. If its not strength what do in eed to work on to have more explosiveness?Fday said:Perhaps they are better trained. Perhaps they have better technique. Perhaps they have better endurance so they come to the sprint fresher. It is unlikely that it is just because they have bigger legs. Want big legs, put an NFL lineman on a bike and see how he does in those sprints.
Maybe you need more fast twitch fibers. You could try lifting weights and report back to us and let us know how it goes.jamesstout said:naah iget there fresh i just cant burn it up when the big boys kick. If its not strength what do in eed to work on to have more explosiveness?
Fday said:Cool. I don't deny that is a definition. I just deny that is the only definition or the only definition relevant to cycling. Maximum strength that can be sustained for a certain number of repetitions is another equally valid definition. Maybe strength should always have a number after it referring to the number of repetitions. You are referring to strength (1). I am referring to strength (5400). I agree strength (1) has little to do with cycling. I believe strength (5400) has a lot to do with cycling.
Cheers.
Frank
Are you confusing/comingling force, work, and power?Fday said:Cool. I don't deny that is a definition. I just deny that is the only definition or the only definition relevant to cycling. Maximum strength that can be sustained for a certain number of repetitions is another equally valid definition. Maybe strength should always have a number after it referring to the number of repetitions. You are referring to strength (1). I am referring to strength (5400). I agree strength (1) has little to do with cycling. I believe strength (5400) has a lot to do with cycling.
Cheers.
Frank
vadiver said:Are you confusing/comingling force, work, and power?
Not for the purposes of the definition. However, if one wants to analyze cycling performance it is necessary to comingle them along with endurance and efficiency.vadiver said:Are you confusing/comingling force, work, and power?
I suspect your 200 m cyclists would look best with looking at something like strength (100) and the 500 meter people if tested using strength (250). A 40k specialist may test best at strength (2000) while an Ironman or TDF specialist may do best at strength (10,000) and the best at one is unlikely to be the best at another. If one wants to look at a physiological parameter that might effect performance it seems to me that the parameter should have something to do with the activity. I agree that measuring strength (1) has nothing to do with cycling. But to say strength per se has nothing to do with cycling performance is pure fantasy unless the whole world is so rigid that they cannot think outside the box and accept that there might be other, equally valid, definitions of strength. Just because you cannot accept this does not make you right and me wrong. I suspect we will find a strong correlation between performance in any cycling discipline and strength, as I have defined, it if we choose the number of repetitions well and someone took the time to do the testing.ric_stern/RST said:That IS the definition. You can deny it all you want, but it just makes you look very silly. Your **** about face 'definition' would throw up a huge problem as the most likely (actual) strongest cyclists (i.e., 200-metre and 500m/1000m cyclists) would end up being the weakest.
It's a bit like learning another language and saying you don't like the word "chair" and referring to it as a "table" (in whatever language you're learning). It would be rather pompous of you to tell the native speakers that they have the word wrong. Likewise, suck it up, you're wrong here.
By the way, you're essentially defining functional threshold power/~1-hr TT power.
Ric
Fday said:I suspect your 200 m cyclists would look best with looking at something like strength (100) and the 500 meter people if tested using strength (250). A 40k specialist may test best at strength (2000) while an Ironman or TDF specialist may do best at strength (10,000) and the best at one is unlikely to be the best at another. If one wants to look at a physiological parameter that might effect performance it seems to me that the parameter should have something to do with the activity. I agree that measuring strength (1) has nothing to do with cycling. But to say strength per se has nothing to do with cycling performance is pure fantasy unless the whole world is so rigid that they cannot think outside the box and accept that there might be other, equally valid, definitions of strength. Just because you cannot accept this does not make you right and me wrong. I suspect we will find a strong correlation between performance in any cycling discipline and strength, as I have defined, it if we choose the number of repetitions well and someone took the time to do the testing.
jamesstout said:which weights?squats dead lifts leg press/ when in the week?
I wish there was an icon for confused, it would be used here.Fday said:Not for the purposes of the definition. However, if one wants to analyze cycling performance it is necessary to comingle them along with endurance and efficiency.
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