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I should add that we seldom do overhead presses or anything else that doesn't directly benefit cycling. We also don't do deadlifts, the most physically taxing of all the lifts. Instead, we break it down into its components and do those separately. Less impact and less chance of injury. So like squats and single leg presses, then stiff-legged deadlifts. Those work what has to be worked. We go back and forth over whether half-squats or Olympic squats are better for cycling. All the studies say half, but those studies all involve young-uns. Olympic reduces the weight and increases knee life, but reduces the cycling specific effect. Or so they say.
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