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@DFP - my bike fit's okay really. I have congenital dysplasia of the vastus medialis, so my posterior chain has an unfair advantage. I'm risking weird shit with patellar displacement if I continue to heavily rely on my glutes and hams for force production.
The percentages were based on this: I have a barbell with 55kg of weight to play with. I'm happy for that to be the ceiling for deadlifts, and for my front squat ceiling to be 10kg lower. These weights cause noticeable positive, but admittedly subtle improvements to my core well-being and on-the-bike stability, without undue risk to my skeleto-muscular well-being (based on history of pelvic injury, ankle injury, knee injury, and aforementioned dysplasia). It also avoids piling on lean mass, which just makes me slower on the road and renders half my wardrobe useless; and avoids heavily taxing the CNS, and fucking up what little on-the-bike training time I have available.
I don't doubt that I could quicky progress to a 1RM of 2xBW for deads, and 1.5BW for back squats in the appropriate setting, but holisitically speaking, I'm not interested in doing so.
There is research out there which supports the idea that the sort of percentages of BW I'm working with are enough to help core stability, joint health, and smooth out particular sport-specific anatomical imbalances. I don't have time to dig through the e-journals right now.