- We're at the Vuelta a Espana
and we're asking the pros, are you a grinder or a spinner?
- Aw, well...
- I...
- Uhhh...
- Excuse?
[Voice offscreen] Are you a spinner or a grinder?
- Spinner.
- I'm more a spinner; I prefer 102 cadence.
- Are you a spinner or a grinder?
- A grinder; my trainer always puts on some intervals
with a high cadence, but I think
after a training I always have like 70 average,
so even though the climb's 70/80, that's all I can do.
- High cadence or slow cadence?
- Depends from condition; if you have no condition,
then you are going hard.
If you have condition, you spin the legs.
- Something between the two.
When I have good legs, I'm gonna spin.
When my legs a little bit less, I'm gonna grind.
- Do you practice spinning?
Is that part of your training program?
- Now, this year, I'm practicing more on spinning,
so I hope in the future it's gonna be better.
- Are you a spinner or a grinder?
- I'm...
- High cadence.
- No, more low.
- More like 80 RPM?
- 90/95, not much more; not much and not too low.
- I grew up on the track,
so I definitely have to say a spinner.
- And do you work on your cadence?
- I do, yeah, on the flat.
And on the climb, make sure and train,
you know, over gearing; it's important
because you tend to ride smaller,
higher cadence in the race so it's important
to replicate that in training.
- I actually went to shorter crank lengths two years ago
to try to improve my cadence, which maybe's helped.
I don't know.
- So do you do like training sessions
so do you like go out and you spend five minutes
100/105 RPM and then go back down to 90
or do you do anything like that?
- I do more like torque work,
so a lot of like low cadence work;
I mean I'm a pretty scrawny guy,
so like try to like build some strength
and then yeah I do do some like high RPM work
that's like at higher power.
- Are you a spinner or a grinder?
- Everyone loves a grinder, but look they say
spin to win but also mash for cash so.
- Aw, nice, I like that.
- You kind of really, I've won both ways,
so I can't really say on one or the other.
- I think for me it's not that I am particular
on one side; I think I go mostly with I'd say 95 cadence
and that's not really high and not super slow
so it's kind of average.
- Do you kinda train for that?
Do you train for high cadence or do you not?
- Not really, when I do the high cadence training,
then I do the motor pacing, there you are always go
a higher cadence about 115 to 120
but normally, no, I don't do this.
- Do you like train in like high cadence?
Do you do like five minutes 105 RPM
or do you just kind of go out and go by feel?
- Depends how backward I am.
We used to do, obviously I've come from the track,
so I've done a lot of high cadence stuff back in the day,
and I'd say I'm more and more inclined
to do specific big gear efforts instead of a specific high.
- Like big torque?
- Yeah, big torque, SFR sort of efforts
more than high cadence efforts.
- High cadence or slow cadence?
- High cadence from the track
so, for sure, from the track I'm high cadence favor.
- And do you train in cadence?
Do you train at like 105 RPM or?
- Just when I am the track so it's just a natural things
I do when I go on the track, so normally on the road
I end the training with 80 RPM,
so I'm more always around 90 in the training
and then some zero pedal or after the climb love it.
Yeah, on the climb, it's 80, from 80 to 90,
and then but on the flat also use a really high cadence so.
- And especially if the sprint was off?
- Especially in the sprint so you go over 120 for sure
so that is a good point so, come from the track,
from it's a natural things I have from the track.
- Do you use high cadence or low cadence?
- Normally I make around 88/85/88; it's in the middle.
- Do you train for like high cadence?
- No, no, no, no.
- Just raise 88 RPM?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I like that.
- I'm so awful, this.
- No, you're not, you still got the power, huh?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So the pack up started here at the Vuelta a Espana
and we've had a really good walk around
asking them if they're a spinner or a grinder
and we've got a lot of good answers
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