Here’s New Information for You About Correcting Your Physiological Short Leg for Cycling Performance, Pain, Injury Prevention, and Recovery.
Would you like more fluid and efficient pedal stroke, greater comfort in the cockpit, less riding stress, more power and energy, less hip and knee wear and tear, and fewer injuries?
Correcting your physiological short leg eliminates inefficient, stressful, lower body squiggle occurring with every crank revolution.
Physiological short leg exists when your leg bones are the same anatomical length, but appear and function as if they are not the same length. This phenomenon is caused by mechanical, neurological and muscular abnormalities.
Take a look at your saddle.
Does your saddle have asymmetrical denting and wear? If so, your probably have a physiological short leg, and your short leg is on the side of the saddle dent and the wear.
Here’s what happens to you.
At the end of you downstroke on the side of your physiological short leg, your leg performs a pawing motion to reach for you bike pedal. This reaching motion makes your sits bone on the side of your physiological short leg press downward, forward and more to the side of your saddle.
At the end of your downstroke on the side of your physiological long leg, your leg sticks on your bike pedal, pulling your pelvis back toward the midline of your saddle.
Alternating reaching and sticking of your legs with every crank revolution causes your hips to wiggle in the saddle. This hip wiggle creates the asymmetrical saddle wear and remodeling.
Hip wiggle’s wasted motion reduces your mechanical efficiency, squanders energy, wears out your knees and hips, predisposes you to acute injury, and makes riding less fluid, harmonious and enjoyable.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Established physiologically even leg length improves the interface between you, your bike, and the road for better performance, comfort, enjoyment, and longevity. Riding with physiologically even leg length liberates you from technical concerns, allowing you to look more outside yourself and enjoy what you are doing and where you are going.
Physiological short leg is abnormal, destructive and correctable.
Do you have physiological short leg?
What does physiological short leg do?
What can you do to eliminate physiological short leg?
Now that you know about the physiological short leg and its effect on cycling performance, read through “Who We Serve”, and see if the procedure for correcting it is for you.
