Bsteel wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 3:31pm
531colin wrote: ↑10 Aug 2022, 3:03pm
A word of caution....moving your feet forward on the pedals loads your quads and spares your hamstrings. I got tired of sore quads and moved my saddle(s) back 10mm or so....moving the saddle back loads the hamstrings and spares the quads, so I was more or less back where I started in terms of relative loading on the different muscle groups.......I don't know why all this works like this, but it is so!
This is a bit of an old paper that discusses the biomechanics of fore aft foot positioning.
https://hull.bme.ucdavis.edu/files/2011 ... h_2007.pdf
I came across it whilst looking at Catalyst pedals
https://pedalinginnovations.com/science/
In the end I decided that I wasn't curious enough to spend $149.
There is a forum member who is very keen on those Catalyst pedals.
The paper by Sickle and Hull says they couldn't find a difference between forefoot and midfoot cleats
at steady state, which is interesting as Steve Hogg mainly talks about forward cleat position for sprinting.
did you ever find the second paper mentioned (Elmer, Barratt. Korff & Martin) which talks about relative work of the different muscle groups?
I had a quick look, but boredom and the heat overtook me!