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Ill never live that homeopathy episode down. It began because I knew people who had seen homeopathic doctors in south asia, who received treatments of medications in special bottles a lot of which is imported from Germany. They all differentiated it to herbal or ayurvedic, claiming it worked loads better. In the end I managed to inspect some of these such medications. And it turned out they were Herbal medicine after all. Just very good quality herbal medicine. It gets dispensed by Homeopathic practioners, and everyone in places like Bangladesh and India knows it as homeopathic medicine. When in fact it isnt.
Well that is the explanation of that episode.
In regards to specific 'core' training. Me and Colm have so far been assuming that RPM means abdominal work, most specifically anterior abdominal work. Now, this stuff really is covered multiple fold by any of the traditional compound exercises. Anything from push ups to squats. For someone specifically looking to increase their standing press, they may look into isolation exercises for their triceps, abs and such to help boost their press. But even they would have to fit them in very carefully, as any additional ab fatigue only removes opportunity to do more valuable exercises, like the press itself, bench press, deadlifts etc.
Now for someone using an exercise like the standing press to help their cycling, they should focus on riding their bike and use their high value strength exercise (the press) when they have time. The riding gets priority, the high value compound strength exercises come after.
Isolation comes so far behind/low on the priority list that it isnt even worth thinking about. They are useful in the event of injury or to address specific problems of the individual, like imbalances etc. Which are very unsual, unlikely and most often corrected by the compound exercises anyway. And even with isolation work, for a cyclist it would be sooner appropriate for them to do these for things below the waist. Glutes, quads, calves etc. Not abs, because abs are worked so immensely hard with pressing, squatting and deadlifting anyway plus as already mentioned, ab isolation work removes opportunity to do more valuable things.