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For me I find by dropping the cadence I can produce higher watts at a lower heart rate.
Lower cadence reduces your heart rate? The opposite happens with me (when the speed is the same).
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For me I find by dropping the cadence I can produce higher watts at a lower heart rate.
Yes for the FTP test. A heavier gear and a lower cadence is more efficient. But that's just me. It's worth experimenting with and easy to test. Do a lap average power in different gears (lap average speed would work on a trainer too). Afterwards look at the cadence and HR data to compare.
However, this is only a means to get a good test score or hit a certain power in an interval. For longer rides/races, the optimal cadence will be different, in my case higher.
Andy
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Efficient in what way? Maybe for an engine that doesn't experience 'fatigue'. For humans, we are dealing with standard physiques with the added 'feature' of fatigue. Lower cadence and a heavier gear needs more muscular power to push than a higher cadence, right? This leads to fatigue faster. Does with me anyway.
No, higher cadence at the same speed, on the same terrain requires an easier gear, which requires less torque to spin. Heavier gears need more torque to turn (with everything else being equal).
My point is that everything is NOT equal with higher cadence. The brain have a harder time to tell your legs to turn those pedals the same way at 100rpm as you do at 80 rpm. At 120rpm most people end up bouncing up and down on the saddle instead of pedalling in an efficient way.
This is one reason people have different "optimum" rpm.
My point is that everything is NOT equal with higher cadence. The brain have a harder time to tell your legs to turn those pedals the same way at 100rpm as you do at 80 rpm. At 120rpm most people end up bouncing up and down on the saddle instead of pedalling in an efficient way.
This is one reason people have different "optimum" rpm.
TTing.
Some famous climbs in that lot. You'll be in 7th heaven! @Musashi13In July I will be tackling three long climbs