High cadence cycling offers no benefit to amateurs, finds new study

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 10:20 in Health & Medicine

A new study published today in the International Journal of Sports Medicine has found that exercise efficiency decreases in recreational cyclists when they pedal very hard, incorporating more revolutions per minute. Elite professional cyclists pedal at a very high cadence, often above 100 revolutions per minute, and they can sustain a very high exercise intensity […]

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