Low cadence intervals

[morris]

Does anyone have any experience doing these?  Interesting article and research: http://www.nwconditioning.com/2009/09/research-overview-1/

[Tim]

Haven't done these in particular. Coggan had wrote about seated starts and stomps to improve short term (5-15 sec, maybe) power (in a "hard" gear, low cad stuff). Guess it could be similar to the single legged jumps. I think he may have limited his time to about 10 sec on stomps. He saw an increase as well. I think it's part of his arguement to do that vs. weight training to improve power.

[morris]

Have you ever done any low cadence work with hill repeats trying to simulate something like Ft Davis?  Is it worth doing some longer threshold work at a lower cadence to get ready for this?  I'm thinking about adding some of these into my workouts.

[Tim]

other than hitting vp or ten  tops, i haven't done any low cad work to simulate ft davis. may try and do ft davis, but not really focusing on.  been looking at fayetteville race demands. i did start doing some seated accelerations  -mainly short bursts though, not longer intervals. never really focused on accelerations or stomps, we'll see if there are any improvements.....