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just got in from a 100 mile bicycle ride, I always will be slow on a hybrid, but my average speed was 13.3mph which is an improvement, would have been higher - but I stopped to chase a stray dog that was in the road, and wave the traffic to slow down. Didn't catch him, but did shoo him away onto a bridleway, and then postie turned up in hot pursuit as he knew whose dog it was
I won't stop to take pictures for the bike picture thread on a training ride, but I'm too soft when it comes to dogs.
Anyway, yeah 101 miles in all. Bit tired, stayed local and did loops of time trial routes mostly, elevation was about 3,500ft. Didn't fancy riding 50 miles away from home and then heading back, in case I got too tired, I'd only be under an hour from home.
Strava didn't die. Got a new phone that does, so my old phone, everything stripped off except the operating system pretty much, and it has one job.... end of the day, it said battery still had 75%
Bit puzzled, I drank most of my 2litre camel pak - ribena. my bottle of water, 500ml. Which I refilled at a shop and drank, along with a 300ml cold perrier.
Didn;t need the loo all day. When I got in I did an egg cup full of wee, that looked radioactive!
Rather than rest on my laurels for the rest of the week, I plan to do time trials day after tomorrow. Be a rubbish time, but I can only get better, first one of the season. |
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AshWebster wrote: | anyone else done 5x5 workout? started it this week will let you know results. |
there's a good app for this, strong lifts I think it's called?
you input your 1RM for each of the lifts, and it plans out the work outs for you, working out the drops for you. If you can go higher than the recommended lift, put in what you did and it'll calculate where you should go next.
As for results, after a month and a half my 1RM went from;
Squat - 80 to 180
Bench - 70 to 110
Dead lift - 100 to 195
OHP - 30 to 50
Row 35 to 80
you'll be surprised just how much the sheer amount of form work and confidence under the bar will improve your lifts. My squat went from 80 to 110 within a week or so, just because i was more confident in what I was doing.
I'd also recommend doing a variation of the lifts as well every so often, so things like a front squat, rack pull, close-grip bench, dumbbell OHP, board press and Svend press. Just so you're working different parts of the muscle (and to stop you getting bored of only doing the same 5 lifts constantly) |
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Did my first park run... I thought it was supposed to be easy, it was the hilliest fucking thing I've ever done. Managed 33:32 which put me 91 out of 110 runners.... I AM SLOW!
The winner did it in 16mins...
Also did my first 10km run, surprised that it all got quite easy after about 5km and felt I could just keep on running. ____________________ Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. |
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You're all lucky. My local Parkrun has 1,300-ish runners every week ____________________ "Now at inspector level!" |
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cycled about 20 miles Monday, social
50 miles Tuesday
50 miles Wednesday
about 20 miles today, including an 11 mile time trial, I wasn't last, and on my hybrid mountain bike I got an average speed of 18.1 mph |
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So the eating less rubbishy food thing is slow progress as I am fond of a burger .
Still training twice a week and that’s progressing slowly, but I’m happy with that .
So now I need some mild exercises to improve agility and flexibility/movement.
What does the mighty BCF recommend?
Thanks ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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Did a 10km yesterday. People have always told me that if you can do 5km then 10km is easy... hadn't realised what they meant, but this is my 2nd 10km distance and it's true. After around 5-6km my breathing totally relaxed, all muscles eased and it all became easy... and actually really enjoyable.
These vibrams are amazing... no pain anywhere and this morning I woke with tired calves but other than that it's lovely. Going for another park run tomorrow.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 354 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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