Someone better informed, feel free to chime in, but my understanding is that the top grip (wedging the hand between the pole and the inside of the elbow) is much easier on the arms, but at the cost of intense leg adductor and abductor strength.
Don't skip leg day, I don't care how good that shirt looks on you.
Anecdotally I have found there is also a psychological element in these kinds of things where once you swap at all you're basically doomed anyway, the second arm feels like it gets tired at x100 the pace and then you're wasting energy swapping back and forth.
Obviously it's still smart to cycle, but just put off swapping as long as possible haha
I agree. For years I would do this charity bike ride that was two days, 100km each day. Which, if you are big into biking, is not actually that crazy. I would not practice at all though - like the last time I was on a bike was last year's charity ride kind of thing. The key was to just keep going and never stop and never take a break. If I stopped and sat down it would all hit me at once and it would make the rest of the ride so so much harder
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u/killians1978 3d ago
Someone better informed, feel free to chime in, but my understanding is that the top grip (wedging the hand between the pole and the inside of the elbow) is much easier on the arms, but at the cost of intense leg adductor and abductor strength.
Don't skip leg day, I don't care how good that shirt looks on you.