Single leg cycling

jgsi

Over in Beginners, I came down against the act of single leg pedalling routine... damn it.. then I was reading around the constitution of leg muscle fibres in cyclists and came across this...


damn

Tom Dean

I took part in a similar study a couple of years back.

The benefit here is nothing to do with pedalling technique - the other pedal is weighted (I used 10kg I think) so that the motion is as close as possible to normal riding.

Alex_Simmons/RST

Tom Dean wrote:

I took part in a similar study a couple of years back.

The benefit here is nothing to do with pedalling technique - the other pedal is weighted (I used 10kg I think) so that the motion is as close as possible to normal riding.

As I have said before, if you do need to do it*, then do it with an inertial weighted non-drive pedal. About 11kg is about right. I have special pedals that enable you to mount gym weight plates to the non-drive pedal. I mostly use them to perform power meter calibrations though.

* for instance if one foot/leg is incapacitated for some reason for a while and you want to at least try to maintain some level of fitness

cougie

I've no access to loading weights on pedals, but if I just left my leg clipped in, then that's not a million miles away from your 11kg weight ?

McBain_v1

I do isolated leg training as part of my turbo-training regime. It is really good at sorting out a smooth pedalling technique and building strength, particularly if you up the gears (e.g. 52/15 @ 50rpm). I haven't done anything like this as part of a supervised experiment though :shock: Where are you guys going to get experimented upon?

pauldavid

I have a very long penis and relatively short legs, does anyone know where i can get hold of a three armed crank and a cleat to attach to said penis.

Pedalling with three appendages as got to be better than 2 surely????

ut_och_cykla

Only if it does weight trianing at the gym first