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Quantifying a workout even when you have all the gadgets is still hard to evaluate. How does one compare an easy long ride to a short hard time trial? Enter the point system combined with a lactate test. A lactate test will give you the specified zones you need to work in. Zone 1 = [...] I was doing my nightly website blogging and came across Joe Friels: Overtraining article. Much to my displeasure, he never came up with a clear answer. Honestly I’ve come up with a small list of things that happen that typically lead down the road to being overtrained. 1 – Canker sores. Yes, breakdown of your mouth [...] In University, I was not a huge fan of taking tests. The stress of trying to guess what the teacher deemed “important” never really appealed to me. Less stressful is testing yourself in training. Figuring out what stage your at can help put motivation into every workout. Testing also gives you a benchmark for that year; a moment [...] Over the past 2 months (has it been that long) I’ve been yammering about ‘Building the house’. My analogy was that training is just like building a house. What are the keys to a good house? By ‘good’ I mean an ideal home that won’t fall down and can stand the test of time. Materials, a [...] In my last post I talked about recognizing that there were different energy systems in your body. Understanding how to train each one is effective in progressing as an athlete (endurance, sprinter, hockey, etc.). Training your energy system is the backbone for development (especially in endurance sports). In my house analogy, training your energy systems is in all [...] Why do we train? Well some want to get stronger, some want to go further and some want to get faster. When you boil it down training means getting better at something. Typically, the longer you train the “better” you get. Now this assumes that the individual continues to apply a stress that challenges [...] In the previous two sections (Part 1 and Part 2) I have established what methods and some warning signs to keep you on the road of injury prevention. Nutrition is my final topic for the recovery trilogy. Nutrition in my house analogy is hard to quantify. It not only determines the height and width [...] ***Instead of having a huge explanation, I’m going to try to keep it short and simple. My time seems to be slipping away so I figure more frequent posts will be better for LiveMultiSport.*** In the first section of recovery I reviewed the different techniques to keep you “playing”. Now I’d like to talk about [...] This is the second part in “Building the House“ compilation. One thing that annoys me with most books is they put the recovery and nutrition chapters last. After you’ve read through the should dos, the shouldn’t dos, the could dos, and would dos; you put the book down and probably stop reading altogether! You’ve missed [...] This is the first part in “Building the House“; compilation. Building the house – I got sick and tired of reading countless magazines/books that all proposed their ideas as the right ones. On top of that, each author has their own system. Zone 5b, power level at CP30, swim at percieved effort 4; what [...] Most people probably don’t think of racing as an investment. It’s more about the goal than the actual reward. What about the people who do win races. Are they only entering a race based on the prize or some other factor? A relization this year is, at the base pro/amateur level, running pays [...]
Wind tunnel testing seems to be standard practice with anything that has to move. It wouldn’t be a surprise if sneakers soon entered the lab for some improvements in aerodynamics (velcro will prove to be superior!). The Factors Aerodynamics on the bike boils down to two things: you and your bike. You can [...]  |
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