MilesJS

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• Pedals for track

  in Track Cycling and Velodromes • 12 years, 10 months

  

  If you do a lot of standing starts...

  I used to have look pedals and tried all of them... Sprint, Keo Carbon, Blades.

  But I had too many problems with all of them like the bearings failing, the axle coming off, the springs losing tension etc.

  So I tried SPD-SL 105s for £30 and couldn't be happier.

  They really do hold me in now.

• Rollapaluza

  in General • 12 years, 11 months

  

  Heres my tips:

  • Practice rev-outs on a staionary bike to raise your max cadence threshold, try beating the number.
    
  • Focus on accelerating as hard as possible at the start.
    
  • Once upto speed "relax" but still mentally try to accelerate.
    
  • Spin the legs when you get home from racing. I didnt once and saw my breakfast lunch and dinner again at 3am!
    
• Squats and deadlift numbers, corelationship with max watt output

  in Track Cycling and Velodromes • 12 years, 11 months

  

  There was a study by some Scottish institute on Hoys 1RM Squat and his kilo time.

  There was a clear correlation between the two.

  However, obviously Hoy just didn't squat in his training programme so it could of been the other things he did improved the kilo time as well.