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December 30, 2005
Powercranks
I've got this problem with unbalanced right/left legs. Then I heard about Powercranks.
Interesting concept. Each crank rotates independently. So you are forced to rotate each leg independently to keep them in sync with each other, ie. 180 degrees apart from each other. Normally, a fixed crank does this for you. But you need to exert muscular strength for that to happen here.
What does that do? It supposedly trains muscles that support bicycling motion throughout the whole cycle instead of mostly on the downward stroke. It also has been shown to improve running as well.
I hope to get on these as soon as possible. They are being mounted on my old P2K and I'm going to train on them asap. My hope is that not only will they improve my cycling, but also help my right quad cramping problem which has been plaguing me for 2 years now...
More info at Powercranks's website.
Posted by dshen at December 30, 2005 03:04 PM
