Building Cadence.....

[Trek420]

A lot depends on your goal. In training there may be advantages at times to pushing a big gear. Think of it as weight lifting on a bike. Whether you're normally a sit and spin gal or you just tend to use a big gear sometimes it's good to climb a harder hill in a lower gear or accelerate in a lower gear .... you get my drift. I've heard this called and "under speed drill"?

OTOH if you just tend to use lower RPM and/or bigger gears that is fine but learning to spin a bit has advantages from range of motion, acceleration, just using different muscles, bike handling and so on.

A lot has been made of spinning always especially in recent years with Lance's style of high RPM in all kinds of racing. It may feel like it's the law you must be high RPM always.

I'm sure if you're a marathon runner you'd work on sprinting, if you're a sprinter you'd work on endurance. But you'd still tend to be either a distance or sprint runner. I think of it like that.