Rate, or frequency of pedaling

First define the concept: "The call cadence of pedaling, are the laps that gave the crank per time unit, measuring from one point to a return to the same point on the crank of a single leg." Typically measured in revolutions per minute. What cycles per minute gives us always result frequency. ".

This is a very extensive chapter and who can write and have written many books, and it is not my intention to go in depth on this topic. But if you give a basic understanding on the cadence ideal and its relationship with the triathlon.

Unlike the cycling track or on the road, where the cyclist finishes his evidence and rests until the next meeting or until the next competition. A triathlete when low-cycling has to be to run. This differentiation is very important to take into account the written about cadence and development of the cyclist.

For this we need to know a little the effect of "lactic acid" that we can accumulate in the test bike and pay hard in the race.

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A triathlete can not afford to accumulate too much lactic acid during / segment of the bicycle. The best way to not acomular acid is lactic with a high frequency, using the aerobic system and consumes the muscle glycogen by the via aerobic and anaerobic not through. Below you will find some links on the lactic acid and its effect on the sport. But summing will tell you that the lactic acid after their accumulation reaches a point because you can not rid of him throughout the trial. And if you do ten kilometers or more running with a good accumulation lactic your legs, the stage race will be a torture and possibly suffer from muscle pulls. Any professional cyclist will tell you that a high frequency of pedaling between 80 and 100 per minute is ideal, but at the moment of truth this frequency is usually lower. But in the triathlon can not allow to use more force to the resistance, have to train to keep a high frequency. Many triathletes walk in these ranges between 70 and 90 or between 80 and 100 depending on their morphology.

If you have any competition costs or small port (not usually the norm), then it is when you have to work the high frequency and not force. If you upload a repecho with a low cadence are using force and this produces more lactic acid and faster than when using the aerobic system with a proper development and maintaining high frequency. Although at any given time can climb faster and gain some positions, this accumulation in the pay the remainder of the race in cycling as later in the segment of race walking or hiking.

In your training practices lot riding high frequency switch developments and try to keep above the 100 for a long time, exceed 150 or 160, that is when you start to give small boats in the saddle.

The high frequencies are also a quirk very important and reducing injuries of the knees, so common in cycling, and more particularly in the triathlon. The human knee is not built for cycling and if the forces of the account will have more problems.

Frecuencia de pedaleo