Muscle Tension?
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Muscle Tension?
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:51 pm
What is muscle tension and why do you improve it by doing drills pushing the biggest gear you can at slow rpm's?....why do you want to improve it?.
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Re: Muscle Tension?
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:43 pm
Let me know when you find out.toolonglegs wrote:What is muscle tension and why do you improve it by doing drills pushing the biggest gear you can at slow rpm's?....why do you want to improve it?.
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:30 pm
That would make me slower...sogood wrote:Why not just go to a gym and do leg presses?
I was just wondering what the point of these drills was...and what they are meant to improve.
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Postby sogood » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:34 am
Not if you keep up a "cadence" of 90/min with 45kg.toolonglegs wrote:That would make me slower...sogood wrote:Why not just go to a gym and do leg presses?
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