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Originally Posted by Misti
Reminding yourself to relax will help but is there anything you think you can to do prevent the tendency to want to tighten up and be stiff on the bars? Why are you getting tense in the first place?
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In a track situation, physical tension is a reflection of mental tension, and mental tension is a byproduct of inefficient sensory information processing. That is, there is too much information coming in for you to deal with it via analysis/thinking, so you must change modes and process the information via recognition/feel. Failure to make the processing switch will result in an elevated sensation of speed, along with it's corresponding mental and physical stresses.
Details about the sensation of speed can be found
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