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Opinions on running and cycling fitness?
Continuing from the comments here and posts on other blogs [ Uphill Battle, Langkjøring ] about running and core strength and their effects on cycling fitness, I would love to hear peoples opinions on the following.
The majority of my exercise is done on the bike and I understand that core strength is a significant factor in technique and position yet cycling itself does not contribute greatly to improving core strength. Now, I do a bit of running and I was wondering if this is enough to build up an acceptable level of core strength? I hate doing static exercises in the gym and anything more active that achieves the same results would be much more favourable.
I should point out that this is more about general cycling fitness to me, ie. good position/technique, than specifically increasing performance.