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The stronger guys from my club are doing low cadence sessions as part of their winter turbo training.
Proper low. 50rpm low.
I think the idea is to build leg strength. Seems a bit extreme.
I'm doing variations more like yours. I need to work on cadence, and hopefully the seated low stuff will help me stay seated longer when climing. Mostly I just get bored.
Smallfurry-
It's not going to build any strength. Think about it logically.
You will get used to producing power at a higher torque. Which there are benefits too. I do think there are benefits to low cadence work. But not specifically in directly producing more power.
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I can't push big gears really. It starts to hurt my knees any lower than about 60rpm. I'm happy spinning. My TT's tend to run at an average of between 100-105rpm.
I too am trying to lift my cadence though as you need lots of leg speed on the track.
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BeaconJon
Has anyone tried varying their cadence whilst interval training?
I've been breaking up the monotony of my intervals by working my way up down the block, a minute or two in each gear so my cadence might start at say 115rpm then over a 6 minute interval might end up at 70rpm for the same power.
Just wondered if there's any benefits/implications?
Going from slow rpm's to high at FTP really hurts.