jeltz
Veteran
- Location
- Radstock, Somerset
I do martial arts and one reason for getting the bike was to help stay in shape running up to my black belt grading at the end of the year.
I regard myself as pretty fit, strong legs with good stamina and recovery rates. However, although I could do things like repeat 2 minute sparring matches with 30 seconds rest several times, when I stared cycling, I found that after an hours cycling my legs were like jelly.
In the month I've been cycling I've found that my fitness has adapted quite quickly but the 50 miler I did on Sunday left me knackered even this morning my legs felt like lead. I'm MA training this evening and thankfully they are OK now, but it just goes to show that there are different kinds of fit.
The fitness test for black belt is a mile run, 100 press ups, 100 squat thrusts, 100 sit ups and to 1.5 minute rounds on punch bags (high work rate) with 30 break between rounds. The bag work is the hard part and hopefully the cycling stamina will help me out with that.
I suspect that I should do some long runs and some sprints to improve my overall stamina but would be grateful for any advice.
I regard myself as pretty fit, strong legs with good stamina and recovery rates. However, although I could do things like repeat 2 minute sparring matches with 30 seconds rest several times, when I stared cycling, I found that after an hours cycling my legs were like jelly.
In the month I've been cycling I've found that my fitness has adapted quite quickly but the 50 miler I did on Sunday left me knackered even this morning my legs felt like lead. I'm MA training this evening and thankfully they are OK now, but it just goes to show that there are different kinds of fit.
The fitness test for black belt is a mile run, 100 press ups, 100 squat thrusts, 100 sit ups and to 1.5 minute rounds on punch bags (high work rate) with 30 break between rounds. The bag work is the hard part and hopefully the cycling stamina will help me out with that.
I suspect that I should do some long runs and some sprints to improve my overall stamina but would be grateful for any advice.