Muscle fiber composition and riding strengths

[Bike Chick]

Zen, you crack me up!!!

[Owlie]

Didn't we do the ogling last month?

I cannot remember if there's a difference in bulking between fiber types. The thing with cycling is that it's primarily endurance, but I imagine sprinting, climbing and pure distance utilize different muscle fibers to different extents.


I ask (not about the ogling!) because I'm quite sure that my muscle fiber makeup is overwhelmingly slow-twitch. I have no idea what my cadence is (comfortable? ), but I'm the type that walks a mile faster than they run one, but I'm okay at short distance dead sprints. I'm not a climber. (Okay, so conditioning plays a role there.) I can do short-distance sprinting (getting around stuff or out of a situation I don't want to be in).
I'm more distance than speed, and I feel like my type IIa fibers are permanently out to lunch.

[redrhodie]

I can't make a judgment until I see both with less pants

Don't get me started.

[redrhodie]

Didn't we do the ogling last month?

I cannot remember if there's a difference in bulking between fiber types. The thing with cycling is that it's primarily endurance, but I imagine sprinting, climbing and pure distance utilize different muscle fibers to different extents.


I ask (not about the ogling!) because I'm quite sure that my muscle fiber makeup is overwhelmingly slow-twitch. I have no idea what my cadence is (comfortable? ), but I'm the type that walks a mile faster than they run one, but I'm okay at short distance dead sprints. I'm not a climber. (Okay, so conditioning plays a role there.) I can do short-distance sprinting (getting around stuff or out of a situation I don't want to be in).
I'm more distance than speed, and I feel like my type IIa fibers are permanently out to lunch.

I always wonder what my real cycling "gift" is. Am I a natural climber, which I suspect , or a sprinter? Too bad there's not some way of knowing that didn't involve climbing or sprinting.

[snowroo]

http://www.cyclingtipsblog.com/2010/...ss-those-legs/

Going on a tangent...On cyclists legs

[Dogmama]

I'll bet that muscle fiber type is only part of it. Some sprinters can probably exist on ATP longer than other sprinters or pure climbers (ATP=type of energy used for sprints that dissipates quickly.)

[Catrin]

hmmmmm THAT can be my excuse...

"sorry, I have the kind of muscle fiber good for endurance, not speed"...

What? Everyone uses that excuse?

Darn, well, I tried

[miamibiker]

I can't make a judgment until I see both with less pants

I need to see them naked and I will judge. But please keep the helmets on, it usually ruins it for me when I have to see their face. One exception, Fabian