Is it better to stand up while climbing hills or change gears and stay seated?

I would say that it's better to sit down and try and lift cadence. You know, like then you're going to just be able to save more energy really. But that's something that you probably want to practice and implement into your training. That will give you a better-- yeah, it'll definitely get you to to climb. Save more energy. Obviously if it's like really steep. If you've not set how steep the climb is, then obviously-- then you might get to the point and you've got no choice but to get out of the setup. But generally speaking, trying to keep seated or save energy, that's where if you get a lot of people that over gear they can struggle on the hills. So I would say that adapting to cadence in training is going to be the best way that will ultimately enable you to buy climbs a lot quicker. So yeah, good luck with that.

Yeah. Brett. Is it better to stand up while climbing Hills or change gears and stay seated? Great question when you're watching the Tour de France, for example, the reason why they're seated as much as they are is just because of efficiency when you stand up you're using your entire upper body, obviously and that elevates your heart rate that elevates your respiration rate and you're not as efficient and you can't sustain that for as long. So when you see these guys racing up, the Alps and the Pyrenees, 30 minutes, 45 minutes in length per Klein there. 80% 90% of times. In the cell is not as easy to generate that kind of power. But that's what they're paid to do. I like to get a sale and I actually used to train that quite a bit to be as efficient as possible out of the cell. I will also say that it's aerodynamic as well. So it's less aerodynamic to be standing up. So even at slower speeds, when you're going up a climb, whether it be 10, 12, 15 miles per hour, you still catching all that win on your front side into a lot easier to be in the sale room. Better are dynamically, at least. East. But at home these days. I'm not as efficient the so I love to get a self. Yeah, it's whatever you do to feel comfortable these days. But if you want to be and in the Tour de France, you have to be very efficient in the saddle.

It depends entirely on the hill and what your fatigue level is. If it's really steep, you're going to find out that you just eventually have to stand up. If you need to flush your legs out, sometimes, standing up is absolutely going to help if you need to produce a whole lot of power. All at once, sometimes standing up is the best way to do that. That being said, standing up also has a higher metabolic cost and your dramatically less aerodynamic. So if you're climbing speed is above 78 miles an hour. Standing up becomes a significant negative. Aerodynamically. I have a I personally when it's a really long climb and I'm struggling, I'll play games with myself and I will sit 450 pedal strokes and stand for 25 and and just break up the climb that way, just to get up the up, the up, the hill. I do use a power meter and I watch it, and I pay attention to my Heart rate as well and my Cadence and it's a game game day decision. So to speak, we make that decision during the climb.