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How does it work? The CPS begins with a compilation of data gleaned from over 45,000 rider tests performed on more than 4500 individual riders. In preparation for each test specific positioning variables were changed with proper adaptive time given in between each test session. The protocol followed stringent scientific and statistical guidelines to ensure data integrity. Independently conducted and validated, the research serving as the basis for the CPS was completed at the Center For Sports Medicine in Lyon , France , a center that trains and studies the French National Soccer Team, members of the French National Cycling Team, and numerous other world-class athletes.

Testing was designed to optimize the following criteria :

• Comfort : To reduce fatigue – Aid recuperation – Eliminate soreness. How ? Limit muscular, joint, tendon tensions to properly work while on the bike and recover while off it.

• Performance : Optimize power transfer at dead-spots - Optimize pulmonary and blood oxygen transfer. How? By optimizing the complex relationship between strength-cadence and muscular work. The more efficient your body, your cycling technique, your movement, the better you will perform

• Health : Prevent joint, tendon, and muscular pathologies. How? By limiting joint amplitudes, by reducing muscle tension, by positioning less traumatically. If you are injured, you cannot support the work load proper training requires.

• Aerodynamics : Limit frontal surface area exposed to the wind without generating any physiological or biomechanical constraints. A 3% increase in aerodynamic profile can generate a 10% decrease in physiological efficiency. Focus on the proper criteria.

The parameters of the performance, comfort and health criteria are :

• Optimization of the transfer of blood oxygen.

• Optimization of the transfer of lung oxygen.

• Optimization of the work of the athlete's muscular groups.

• Optimization of the transfer of energy during transitional phases (improved flow of the pedal-stroke) .

• Optimization of the articular working amplitudes of the lower limb joints (hip - knee - ankle) and of the upper body (lumbar-sacral hinge, scapular-humeral joint)

• Optimization of lung ventilation.

• Limitation of the excessive tendonous tensors connected to articular hyper request (hyper flexor or hyper extensor).

• Limitation of the heavy labor of lower body muscles to limit the onset of post exercise muscle spasms.

The research subjects were :

• Aged 15 to 72, male and female.

• Participated in all cycling disciplines (road, mtb, track, cross, triathlon, time trial).

• Performed at all levels of cycling (tourist to top level professional).

• Received comprehensive medical analyses with coverage of all pathological conditions.

• Rigorously followed throughout the entire study. No subjects were allowed to let supplemental or deficient training affect the efficacy of position changes.
  
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