psychling
Well-Known Member
Many years ago, when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I had a heart-throb girlfriend who owned a banged up beetle (Volkswagen). Trying to impress her with my strength I picked up the beetle's back end so the wheel was off the ground.
Thus was born the Robin Hershberger Memorial Muscle. Or, in otherwords, I severely tore a muscle or ligament on the left side of the small of my back.
I was crawling on my hands and knees for a week. And every decade or so for about 30 years I'd reinjure that muscle and experience debilitation and ga-nashing of teeth.
About eight years ago I used the Carmichael system of training (Carmichael must now be ga-nashing his own teeth bc of his coaching and endorsement by Lance Armstrong). It was 18 months of email coaching. It helped quite a bit.
One of the tasks assigned me by my coach was one-legged pedalling. Albeit, I was riding the DF at the time. But, very quickly I noted that the pedalling generated an imbalance in recruitment of my lower back muscles. I let it go on for a short while before I concluded that one legged pedalling is not for me.
Subsequently, many, many times over the past several years on the recumbent I'd be well into an ultra event and I'd get the dreaded `hot foot syndrome.' To take some of the pressure off the complaining foot I'd remove it from the pedal and just pedal with the other foot. For miles at a time. No back problem. None. And I'd be pushing decent watts, too!
Though I'm reluctant to unload some of my better memories of Robin Herschberger I'm pleased to report that the recumbent platform has once again demonstrated it's superiority over the DF / upright platform.
Thus was born the Robin Hershberger Memorial Muscle. Or, in otherwords, I severely tore a muscle or ligament on the left side of the small of my back.
I was crawling on my hands and knees for a week. And every decade or so for about 30 years I'd reinjure that muscle and experience debilitation and ga-nashing of teeth.
About eight years ago I used the Carmichael system of training (Carmichael must now be ga-nashing his own teeth bc of his coaching and endorsement by Lance Armstrong). It was 18 months of email coaching. It helped quite a bit.
One of the tasks assigned me by my coach was one-legged pedalling. Albeit, I was riding the DF at the time. But, very quickly I noted that the pedalling generated an imbalance in recruitment of my lower back muscles. I let it go on for a short while before I concluded that one legged pedalling is not for me.
Subsequently, many, many times over the past several years on the recumbent I'd be well into an ultra event and I'd get the dreaded `hot foot syndrome.' To take some of the pressure off the complaining foot I'd remove it from the pedal and just pedal with the other foot. For miles at a time. No back problem. None. And I'd be pushing decent watts, too!
Though I'm reluctant to unload some of my better memories of Robin Herschberger I'm pleased to report that the recumbent platform has once again demonstrated it's superiority over the DF / upright platform.
