Colorado Multisport

So the first thing they'll have the athlete do is warm up on the bike and Basically in this position, which we would call bottom dead center Pull your foot back just a touch. We'll take a basic angle measurement with what we call a goniometer And we'll basically use three landmarks on the body to take this measurement and here it's Colorado multi-sport We do this both statically and dynamically statically in terms of having the athlete stopped at the bottom of their stroke and Taking the measurement from the greater trochanter where the ball into the femur comes into the hip joint The center of the knee joint which will use the lateral condyle and then the lateral Mali Alice the outside ankle bone and those three points give us angle that we want to shoot for is about 150 degrees for most athletes who have an average range of motion, right? So another piece of the puzzle that we do here is we do range of motion analysis Something real weird of memory, but it gives us a sense for the flexibility of each individual athlete because the fit should be as Individual as that athlete so once we establish a good saddle position a good saddle height which Fred has actually set up Pretty well here then we will do some experiments to determine which seed angle works better for each individual and This brings up, We tend to let the triathlete self-selected seed angle So we can do a variety of experiments from say 73 degrees, which would be a more standard road position all the way up to 78 to 80 degrees, which is a very steep aggressive sort of new school Traflon style time trial position and see which the athlete prefers as the seed angle gets steeper The idea is that biases a higher pedaling cadence That's a higher effort level and it also favors muscle groups in the legs Which allow the athlete to run more effectively off the bike Which of course is the point in a triathlon fit versus a standard road fit or even a standard time trial fit for a road cyclist When you're talking about UCI racing arobar position mostly what we're concerned about is that the athlete can maintain a Good angle of attack here in the hips and then here at the arms so that he supported using his skeletal system as opposed to using his muscular system right and Generally in terms of bar width here We just want to make sure that the elbows are about even with the thighs and that he's not Creating a big giant faring up front with his arm spread really wide apart so that he has