What is your regime

[Cush]

While waiting to go down to the Sauna. I started to think of our Hobby’s (pastimes) and what effect they have on our general health and well being. Here is my regime How does it compare with other users of these pages?.

I cycle and since June my longest route has been sixty miles in eight hours. I walk and can do twenty miles in six hours or less, (twenty is my favourite distance for a challenge) Longest walking distance achieved this year fifty-two miles in seventeen hours. I know that cycling and walking do not always compliment each other but at this level do I not think it is a problem. I go to the gym at least twice a week for weight training & aerobics’ (light weights with high reps + 15 minutes on each of three machines) and am due to start a weekly Tai-Ji class. I try to get to the Sauna twice a month. I garden when I can (and always finish up with a bothersome back) Yet I still suffer badly from catarrh in the throat and hard breathing and am constantly spitting, when I get up to average walking or cycling speed (3.5 and 12+mph). The steam room in the Sauna certainly helps but I wonder if my main problem is too much time spent on the computer, which does dominate my spare time. i.e. while waiting to go down to the Sauna which I know takes an hour to walk to and I can get there just as it opens if I leave at the right time. Which leaves me time to type in this posting.

 

[darth vadar]

Are you bragging or complaining ?

 

[Bill Gates]

Your catarrh symptoms may be due to an allergy and unconnected with your fitness regime. In my own case I suffered from catarrh until I cut down on dairy products. I used to drink a lot of milk and it was only when I cut it back that the catarrh went away.

 

[walker]

Are you bragging or complaining ?

I can't see any bragging going on, 60 miles in 8 hours is nothing to be proud of

 

[ammwhite]

light weights with high reps

Ditch the light weights ... weights are supposed to be heavy!

Seriously, it sounds like you already do a lot of steady-state endurance type work. If you want to build strength (if not, why even bother lifting weights?), then you should aim for something like 5 sets of 5 reps (5 x 5) with a weight where the last rep is a real challenge.

Personally, I run (usually short runs of around 3-4 miles which takes 20-30 mins), cycle (can be anything from 17-18 miles which takes about an hour in the evenings to 40-60 miles at the weekend which would take 3-4 hours), and I do stength training at home using a mix of bodyweight exercises (pushups, pullups) and free weights (squats, deadlifts, bench press, and overhead press).

 

[montage]

Ditch the light weights ... weights are supposed to be heavy!

Seriously, it sounds like you already do a lot of steady-state endurance type work. If you want to build strength (if not, why even bother lifting weights?), then you should aim for something like 5 sets of 5 reps (5 x 5) with a weight where the last rep is a real challenge.

This is true, it is better for building strength, but I would never just ditch light weights and go for the heavy ones (well, actually I did and I have a crap shoulder because of it). Build up to it slowly by decreasing by a couple of reps and adding on the weight week by week. Really wish I had done it this way

 

[Cush]

Just a bit of clarification on this post.. I am curious about other ordinary cyclists regimes, I mean the day today cyclist, the one who may only go down to Tesco, who enjoys cycling as cycling or as part of a health regime or they may have no regime or a strict one that is part of a larger project.

darth vadar: I did not mean to either brag or complain I was just stating what I do.

Walker: This is the sort of speed I am happy with on a bike, it would be interesting to see what others do but there are no prizes for the fastest or slowest.

Ammwhite: The low weights and high reps were brought in when I had little time but needed to keep up with the endurance training, they worked for me then but when I started using heavy weights I found I increased my body weight, Now if I can do ten good chin ups I know I am within my limits.

Bill Gates: Thanks for that bit of advise. I am addicted to cheeses like Red Leicester and Gloucester. I will try and cut them out of my diet. Mind this may be the same as a mate of mine, who when he was asked by the doctor if he had given up smoking as he had been advised replied “yes I only do forty a day now”.

 

[snorri]

Just a bit of clarification on this post.. I am curious about other ordinary cyclists regimes, I mean the day today cyclist, the one who may only go down to Tesco, who enjoys cycling as cycling or as part of a health regime or they may have no regime or a strict one that is part of a larger project.

I NEVER go to T****, but that's another story.
I try to average 10 miles per day, usually utility cycling but with some leisure cycling thrown in. Hitting the annual target of 3650 miles is usually not so difficult, but I sometimes fail to hit the monthly 300 or 310 miles in the winter months. A summer tour usually gives a good boost to the annual mileage. Apart from that I try to use stairs rather than lifts, not that there are many lifts in my locality.
A succession of school gym teachers put me right off any form of sport, or exercise regime, but fortunately for my health, I 'found' cycling myself.

 

[Bill Gates]

Just a bit of clarification on this post.. I am curious about other ordinary cyclists regimes, I mean the day today cyclist, the one who may only go down to Tesco, who enjoys cycling as cycling or as part of a health regime or they may have no regime or a strict one that is part of a larger project.

darth vadar: I did not mean to either brag or complain I was just stating what I do.

Walker: This is the sort of speed I am happy with on a bike, it would be interesting to see what others do but there are no prizes for the fastest or slowest.

Ammwhite: The low weights and high reps were brought in when I had little time but needed to keep up with the endurance training, they worked for me then but when I started using heavy weights I found I increased my body weight, Now if I can do ten good chin ups I know I am within my limits.

Bill Gates: Thanks for that bit of advise. I am addicted to cheeses like Red Leicester and Gloucester. I will try and cut them out of my diet. Mind this may be the same as a mate of mine, who when he was asked by the doctor if he had given up smoking as he had been advised replied “yes I only do forty a day now”.

Weight training for cycling is more about stamina and endurance than pure strength, unless you're training for sprints on the track. I used to do many repititions over a longer period which mirrored the actions on a bike. But this was in conjunction with bike riding and not instead of bike riding. I think the ability to ride a bike fast is something we all aspire too and training is about getting fit to ride at a reasonable speed for the time you want to ride. The best way to achieve that is to train for speed.

Cutting down on eating cheese will improve your fitness and breathing. I think it was Lance Armstrong who never touched cheese.

 

[jimboalee]

What's wrong with cheese? Its 25% protein.

Fat yes. Calcium yes. Include it in your daily calorific count.

 

[Bill Gates]

What's wrong with cheese? Its 25% protein.

Fat yes. Calcium yes. Include it in your daily calorific count.

Nail on head.

 

[zoxed]

What's wrong with cheese?...

A lot if you are www.wikiperia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lactose_intolerance (est. 5% of N. Europeans).