injury

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by leanman
right below my left hip bone. .. dont know what i did. 3 weeks sore now. still riding, but it hurts.. gonna take time off. tolerable, but it isnt like the right side of my body...cant think of what i did. cycling 25 years+ never injured.. only thing is i rode a ton of 1/4 mile hills very steep for 3 hours 3 weeks ago..sat on some stood on some.. thats the only thing i can think of thats a bit different.. maybe different muscles were used on these hills. probably did 30 of these on this route we took..aqny suggestions? thanks alot

You probably just over did it. Ride easy, stretch gently after rides.

Plus getting old(er) doesn't help.

Do you still believe in PC pedalling advantages ?

Yes.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by swampy1970

Yes.

Having spent so much time using them, you should now be able to answer these two final questions, where in the pedalling circle does the PC advantage have most effect and roughly what percentage improvement do you believe they can give a rider ?

How does the PC muscle help with pedaling? I usually just leave it relaxed and ignore it - am I doing something wrong?

Is this the same as the Kegel pedaling technique?

maydog said:

How does the PC muscle help with pedaling? I usually just leave it relaxed and ignore it - am I doing something wrong? Is this the same as the Kegel pedaling technique?

I saw on an episode of Conan O'Brien that an actress claimed we should spend 80-90% of our waking hours kegeling. I suspect that kegeling is likely nearly as effective for cycling as using Powercranks.

n crowley said:

Having spent so much time using them, you should now be able to answer these two final questions, where in the pedalling circle does the PC advantage have most effect and roughly what percentage improvement do you believe they can give a rider ?

Those were answered a long time ago. Go read.

alienator said:

I saw on an episode of Conan O'Brien that an actress claimed we should spend 80-90% of our waking hours kegeling. I suspect that kegeling is likely nearly as effective for cycling as using Powercranks.

Maybe she had bladder issues or a hooch that resembled the double decker 6 lane wide tunnel through Yerba Buena island on the middle of the SF Bay Bridge and it was what she had to do in order to stop spending all her money on Depends or losing husbands during intimate moments. Powercranks > Kegels > Campagnolo.

Quoted post said:

Originally Posted by swampy1970

Those were answered a long time ago. Go read.

I thought you might have more precise answers after all this time. Up to now advantages are supposed to occur all around the pedalling circle and can give a possible 40% power increase to an already fully fit rider,( i.e.) no advantage is from any extra training time.

n crowley said:

I thought you might have more precise answers after all this time. Up to now advantages are supposed to occur all around the pedalling circle and can give a possible 40% power increase to an already fully fit rider,( i.e.) no advantage is from any extra training time.

Go back and read the ~1,000 posts I'd made on this topic before. 😉 Simply put you spend less time and much pains worrying about trying to produce power by pulling up and more time smashing the f**k out of the pedals on the way down. Oddly, it changed the muscles I used too - more hamstrings and glutes and less quads. No more "quad death.

What would be most useful is a picture with you in non-baggy clothing, poking the spot in question, which will give me a better idea. The TFL or IT band comes to mind, which would be no great surprise. Generally injuries that weren't terribly acute (aka getting hit or falling) usually are obvious over work injuries, and or (usually and) have a preexisting imbalance or structural cause.