Hello All:
I thought some of you might be interested in a paper we just published in Journal of Experimental Biology. Its not totally relevant (yet) to Tri because its about sprint power. We asked the questions: What if each muscle that can produce cycling power was stimulated in such a way as to produce the maximum power it possibly could? What would that look like overall and at each joint? How would it compare with what cyclists actually do when they sprint?
Future work will involve using the same stimulation paradigm but with reduced intensity. Will that look like submaximal cycling?
Maybe the coolest parts are the figures showing how bi-articular muscles produce power at the two joints they span.
If you choose to read the whole paper, I recommend printing out Figure 1 on paper and having it available for constant reference. Otherwise its easy to get lost.
Cheers,
Jim
http://jeb.biologists.org/.../jeb.180109.full.pdf
I thought some of you might be interested in a paper we just published in Journal of Experimental Biology. Its not totally relevant (yet) to Tri because its about sprint power. We asked the questions: What if each muscle that can produce cycling power was stimulated in such a way as to produce the maximum power it possibly could? What would that look like overall and at each joint? How would it compare with what cyclists actually do when they sprint?
Future work will involve using the same stimulation paradigm but with reduced intensity. Will that look like submaximal cycling?
Maybe the coolest parts are the figures showing how bi-articular muscles produce power at the two joints they span.
If you choose to read the whole paper, I recommend printing out Figure 1 on paper and having it available for constant reference. Otherwise its easy to get lost.
Cheers,
Jim
http://jeb.biologists.org/.../jeb.180109.full.pdf