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I’d have thought perceived exertion would be higher with a higher cadence as you are recruit more aerobically no?
Or did you mean in your legs?
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In my legs. The effort of keeping a cadence of 80+ seemed far more difficult than just grinding out the watts out the saddle.
I’ll happy be out the saddle for 20-30m plus, without much upper body fatigue.I’ve not been on the turbo for over a month, so it might just be my legs forgetting how to drum out intervals.
Note the puny efforts of trying to hold a higher cadence in the attached. Power targets hit, but clearly not in the most efficient way!
Acliff
Yeah, I just did a 40m sweetspot session 96% FTP, 88% FTP 5m x 4 at 55 rpm out the saddle because my legs refused to spin faster today.
Bit of a grind....
Tried to increase cadence, but on the higher FTP, legs just would not get past 75rpm and perceived extertion was way higher than lower cadence.