{"id":196,"date":"2007-02-17T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/2007\/02\/17\/bike_positioning_on_the_seat\/"},"modified":"2007-02-17T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T12:53:01","slug":"bike_positioning_on_the_seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/archives\/bike_positioning_on_the_seat.html","title":{"rendered":"Bike Positioning on the Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They make such a big deal about bike fit.  You sit for hours with someone at a bike store, or you pay big bucks to go to a professional to make sure you&#8217;re maximizing power output with the most efficiency and minimal energy waste.<br \/>\nBut little is known about about shifting your bike positioning during cycling.  And I don&#8217;t mean actually sliding the seat.  I mean that you can actually engage different muscles for different terrain based on where you put your butt!<br \/>\nThis article in Triathlete magazine talks about this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dshen.com\/training\/bikepositioning.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dshen.com\/training\/bikepositioning.pdf (7 MB!)<\/a><br \/>\nSorry for the huge file size.  I wanted the images and text to come out nicely.<br \/>\nI tried this today in my long ride outdoors, which today consisted of hill repeats.  I found myself naturally sliding back and forth and experimented with best positioning on the hill repeats.  By sliding my butt all the way back on the seat, I could really engage my glutes and got some real nice power while on my seat going up the hill.<br \/>\nDown on the flats, I found myself sliding forward more to engage a wider range of muscles for making lots of revolutions while on the aerobars.<br \/>\nAlong with the article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dshen.com\/training\/pedalstroke.pdf\">pedaling from Bicycling magazine<\/a>, working on both pedalling and bike body position, I&#8217;ve been able to boost power output this year by another 5-10 watts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They make such a big deal about bike fit. You sit for hours with someone at a bike store, or you pay big bucks to go to a professional to make sure you&#8217;re maximizing power output with the most efficiency and minimal energy waste. But little is known about about shifting your bike positioning during [&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-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}