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I'm sure there are people here that would love to rip this apart and give it the big 'un... "she's not doing it right", "what does that achieve" etc., but in essence, performing isometric abdominal exercise whilst moving peripheral limbs is really beneficial for cyclists. The core muscles need to adapt and get stonger whilst recieving neurological feedback from the extremeties, whilst moving.
If you train to be strong whilst static - you are strongest - static. And so on. This is what babydinotrackboy was stating earlier (i think!). Squats and deadlifts etc etc etc are good for certain things like injury prevention and whatnot - but provide a very different neural mechanism to cycling, and unless you spend that time in the saddle, developing that synapse firing cadence - your time in the gym is wasted.