This week I backed off cycling training. No matter what I did, I was very low energy and just could not summon enough juice to work out at wattages and intensities in previous weeks. What a frustrating thing. I am now building to my next race in June and feel that backing off now interrupts[…]
Electrostim is great. You crank it up as far as you can stand and it makes your muscles jump around like crazy. It stimulates your muscles into healing, helps blood flow, and is sometimes used to exercise the muscles. Well…sometimes. Yesterday I have two electrostim pads hooked up to each hamstring. I crank it up[…]
My coach is fond of saying that he doesn’t really care what days you do his workouts in his schedule, as long as you do them. He has also experimented greatly with varying the order of workouts to see if there is any difference in the results, and he has seen that there isn’t much[…]
Today I heard the most funny term – grasterbating. It’s basically doing what your sports medicine doctor does to you, but in the privacy of your own home. In this case, it is the Graston Technique, which uses these scary looking metal tools to scrape away adhesions that form in your muscles. It feels like[…]
So I talked about the ups and downs of cycling, and now a post about the ups and downs of training. We all wish we could blast through our workouts with 1000% energy and feel great afterwards, every time. But the reality is that our bodies can’t sustain that kind of effort over time. In[…]
A few months ago I bought a pair of Powercranks in an attempt to improve my cycling and even out some annoying power differences between my right and left legs. I have discovered some amazing results with these Powercranks, in that they have really awakened some new muscles for pedalling in that circular motion. These[…]