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Climbing on rollers and on snow
Skate rollerski uphill work this past fall finally allowed me to do
intermediate hills on trails around Quebec city this week. However, while enjoying my newfound endurance, I was also disappointed to find that my climbing is very assymetric - that is, I have a very strong preference for the right side. What's puzzling is that on rollers only a couple of weeks earlier, I actually perferred the left side for climbing, though not to the extent of my right side preference on snow. While the left side feels more natural for cruising the flats both on wheels and on snow, it feels very awkward when climbing on snow. One thing I noticed with longer skis rather than rollers attached to my feet is that my left foot doesn't twist outward as naturally as my right one does, and so it always wants to maintain a pretty shallow angle to the direction of travel. It also tires out much faster than the right one - all the roller training notwithstanding. I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar issue and how to approach the problem which seems to be rooted in physiology. |
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Climbing on rollers and on snow
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:47:48 -0800 (PST), Larry wrote:
Skate rollerski uphill work this past fall finally allowed me to do intermediate hills on trails around Quebec city this week. However, while enjoying my newfound endurance, I was also disappointed to find that my climbing is very assymetric - that is, I have a very strong preference for the right side. What's puzzling is that on rollers only a couple of weeks earlier, I actually perferred the left side for climbing, though not to the extent of my right side preference on snow. While the left side feels more natural for cruising the flats both on wheels and on snow, it feels very awkward when climbing on snow. One thing I noticed with longer skis rather than rollers attached to my feet is that my left foot doesn't twist outward as naturally as my right one does, and so it always wants to maintain a pretty shallow angle to the direction of travel. It also tires out much faster than the right one - all the roller training notwithstanding. I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar issue and how to approach the problem which seems to be rooted in physiology. Yes, especially when I first got into skate skiing. I solve it by working on the less favored side. Consider some of the differences between climbing pavement and snow. (all in context of my roller gear) Poling on pavement has limited thrust due to slippage. On snow you can really pump it, and thus there might be some favoritm in the poling that didn't come out with the less energetic pavement thrusts, which might affect foot favoritism. My snow glide is much better than my roller glide so I tend have longer glide phase on snow than pavement, and if it is the same for you then it may be why you find the favoritism (yes, to the other foot) greater on the snow. Roller skis don't slip, so the snow ski angling tends to be greater, and this does require more effort in foot/leg rotation. Ben |
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Climbing on rollers and on snow
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:47:48 -0800 (PST)
Larry wrote: Skate rollerski uphill work this past fall finally allowed me to do intermediate hills on trails around Quebec city this week. However, while enjoying my newfound endurance, I was also disappointed to find that my climbing is very assymetric - that is, I have a very strong preference for the right side.... I'm wondering if anyone has had a similar issue and how to approach the problem which seems to be rooted in physiology. Various sorts of asymmetries are common and I think are likely to remain so to some degree even with work on them. By analogy, consider that each arm and hand has types of things it does better and worse, and all the practice in the world isn't going to basically change that. That said, there are ways to diminish the differences, as Ben points out. For my less-favored leg, I used to do a lot of long distance no-pole V2-alt and V1 on that side, switching for a few minutes when it got tired, then coming back for more. Gym work to lessen the muscle differences also helps to some degree. Gene |
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Climbing on rollers and on snow
Thanks guys. Will keep plugging away.
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