DON’T PEDAL WITH YOUR TOES DOWN

[0:00]Cyclists, three reasons why pedaling with your toes down can cause you issues. Number one, if your toes are pointing down, it's going to make your foot less stable. So to stabilize your foot inside the shoe, your toes are going to want to start to claw and that's going to squeeze all the blood and all the sensation out of your toes. And give you sore, null feet while you ride. When you pedal with your toes down, it's going to force your knee into a higher angle over the top of the pedal stroke compared to when your foot is more relaxed. When you push from here instead of here, you're engaging the lower part of your quad into your knee more thoroughly. And that's going to end up giving you fatigue down the front of your knee and sometimes it can even lead to knee pain. And further up the pedal stroke, number three is it puts your hip into a more acute angle. So rather than bumping your knee across your chest, what you're going to start to do to get more space here, is roll your pelvis back and open up your body. So from this toe down position, it can create this camel's hump look in your back, give you saddle pain, what you want to do, lift your toes up in the shoe, let your heel drop. From there, relax your toes, lean forward and just push.