{"id":195,"date":"2007-02-15T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T08:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2007\/02\/15\/new_pedaling_hitting_the_glutes\/"},"modified":"2007-02-15T08:50:07","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T08:50:07","slug":"new_pedaling_hitting_the_glutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/new_pedaling_hitting_the_glutes.html","title":{"rendered":"New Pedaling: Hitting the Glutes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started cycling for racing, I never could have imagined how complex cycling really was.  Cycling technique has so many little nuances it&#8217;s hard to keep track of all of them when you are cycling. Only through extensive training and practice to reinforce technique can you unconsciously perform optimal cycling technique&#8230;and prevent injury.<br \/>\nA great article on pedaling was published in Bicycling magazine, March 2007 Issue.  I scanned it in:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dshen.com\/training\/pedalstroke.pdf\">The Perfect Pedal Stroke, Bicycling Magazine, March 2007, pg. 108<\/a><br \/>\nAfter looking at the fantastic illustration, I noted that I wasn&#8217;t letting my heel drop on the downstroke but instead I was pointing my toe downward.  By letting the heel drop, I could engage my large glute muscles and hamstrings which I probably was not in the past.  I set out to try this.<br \/>\nDefinitely a difference.  My glutes are more sore in my Computrainer workouts, and I can definitely feel my hamstrings getting hit more as well.  Overall, I think my power output has gone up another 5-10 watts on workouts that I did last year.  Very cool.  Definitely more to work on here because I still get messy and revert to old habits when I get tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started cycling for racing, I never could have imagined how complex cycling really was. Cycling technique has so many little nuances it&#8217;s hard to keep track of all of them when you are cycling. Only through extensive training and practice to reinforce technique can you unconsciously perform optimal cycling technique&#8230;and prevent injury. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}