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Muscle Tension?

Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:51 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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Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:43 pm

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?.
Let me know when you find out.
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:56 pm

OK :lol:
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Postby sogood » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:00 pm

Why not just go to a gym and do leg presses?
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Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:30 pm

sogood wrote:Why not just go to a gym and do leg presses?


That would make me slower...
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 6:34 am

toolonglegs wrote:
sogood wrote:Why not just go to a gym and do leg presses?

That would make me slower...

Not if you keep up a "cadence" of 90/min with 45kg. :lol:
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