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Planks, I like, but that's because I find them easy.
My favourite exercise (at the moment) is burpees...well, not because I enjoy them, but because they're so damn good. Last night, we started our session off with 5 sets of 15 chest to the ground jobbies with hill sprints in between. I thought my heart was going to burst out of my chest.
Stop distracting us with tales of your chest and tell us about what the colour of the bibs mean!
i've managed to up my plank to a whole 20 seconds now
#isawareimnolongeraspecialguy
Phil - you are joking, right?
Well i've done nothing for about 3 weeks. I've been so lazy it's untrue. Driven to work, eaten welsh cakes, jelly babies (without doing exercise), cakes and no training whatsoever.
I feel fat and slow
tricky - you injured? Race season has started, surely?
TSY, it's British Military Fitness. Blue = low, red = medium, green = high intensity. In reality the blues usually go for a separate session and the reds and greens have the session together but increased reps for green.
For me, I enjoy the motivation from a vocal instructor and doing stuff in a group. We're lucky to have an excellent hilly park with lots of features for doing the different exercises. For my three classes a week, it costs me less than three squid a class. Sometimes we carry a log or medicine balls around for the whole class, or the instructors bergen or some other foolishness.
The fitness assessment consists of a timed 1500m run. Then 2 minutes each of counted press ups, sit ups and burpees, then a timed 15 x 20 metre shuttle run.
EDIT: [url= https://www.britmilfit.com/why-bmf/fitness-assessment/ ]Explained Here[/url]
course i'm joking, i hadn't done the plank for months and months until Jo did it randomly in his room the other day so i thought i'd see if i could still do it, managed to do 2minutes 25seconds then i gave up mentally, think i could've got another 15ish seconds before giving up if i had really tried!
nope.. Just done a few very crap races so far and completely lost motivation. The last one was absolutely terrible. It was a 2/3/4 65 miler so pretty pacey but i was bored! everyone riding around in a huge bunch. Came to last lap and i decided to go to the front.. people just sitting on my wheel and no one coming through willing to work.
I got back from that race and felt liek chucking it all in
I found this old post
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/differences-between-xc-and-road-racing
and tend to agree with Njee's comments
I don't really enjoy road racing, done quite a lot over the years, although admittedly nearly all have been crits. Most people race very negatively, they lack the jump to get across to a break, so you tend to find people dragging the bunch back to any breaks. Crashes also tend to be pretty grim, and are rarely your fault, unlike in XC racing!The whole mentality is different too, most road races are all serious, people show up, rub embrocation on their legs, race, and go home. XC racing is far more sociable, more of an 'event'.
this x 100! All races this year have been pretty negative and quite frankly boring. I enjoy the chain gangs more..
Cross racing on the other i come away buzzing!
So, in short.. i've lost motivation massively 🙁
Ooooohhh... I wanna do a BMF test!!
Tricky - you highlight my worries about getting into racing rather than just doing it for the love! Regarding wheel suckers... take 'em through pot holes and red lights if on the open road 😈
The races last year i really enjoyed. In fact my first race was a road race and i came away buzzing. This year it feels different. Races are massively oversubscribed. It's very difficult to get into races. Last night the castle combe crit i'm told was 120 riders! this is for a wet thursday night (normally around 50 riders)
Lots of ppl with no bunch skills.. not knowing how to sprint.. and guys happy sitting in the bunch the whole race.
What're your favourite core exercises?
Hotel room press-ups with toes on the bed. I can do about 25 in one go, maybe two or three sets of that over time.
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I've started doing press ups with my hands on a reebok step...
1. Both hands on bench, explode up, land with left hand off left end of bench.
2. Explosive up to both hands on bench.
3. Go to the right.
Repeat until form fails.
God, you want core, get down to a gynastics school.
flic flacs, casting, planche, tumbling, all the vaulting exersizes, pikes, leg tucks, walkovers, backwards take-offs, ays bars.
All the boys at our club had rock hard 6 packs.
(so did I) 😆
I've been going on a gymnastics website for training tips emsz! I have rock hard abs 🙂
Which is your favourite exercise though?
Sit ups boringly. 😳
I do them with feet and shoulders off the floor though.
I like the yoga classes for core exercises.
the move starting at 40sec is one of the best core exercise I've come across yet. The girl makes it look easy, but it isn't!
Kev
i can do 3 sit ups now!
well feelnig ashamed of myself i decided to hit the gym (1st time in 2 months) and do some Veronique Billat intervals (after reading idave's blog)
Ouch
I missed that in his blog... how have you worked out what intensity to do the intervals at?
This
http://triathlete-europe.competitor.com/2012/02/29/12-into-70-3-will-go-part-two/
The first are an adaptation of intervals developed and validated by French physiologist Veronique Billat – found to effectively increase aerobic capacity. These involve 3 sets of 5 x 30 sec max, 30 sec recovery, with 2.5 mins between sets. For me the ‘max’ is based on feel – no heart rate, no power – it’s at the highest pace that I can sustain for 30 seconds.
Cool... I should've gussed if it was from iDave's blog it would be the luddite's option... which suits me just fine.
Although I'll have a HRM monitoring my progress.