August 29, 2009
I just joined 24Hour Fitness again after 2+ years away. I’m going to start posting my leg workouts and trainer rides. I do upper body stuff as well but it’s not related to cycling so isn’t really relevant to this blog. Plus I don’t feel like posting that often. The routine is more or less [...]
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August 24, 2009
I’ve decided I’m going to start wrapping my cycling season (not that I ever race) every September, for several reasons. College football cranks up in August so that’s when I always get a hankering to get back in the gym. That’s where I’ve been for the past month. Also, August-Sept is our hottest time of [...]
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August 17, 2009
After a really hard July and a really easy August I’m finding it hard to get back into hard cycling mode, especially with football season starting up. This is the time of year when my mind kicks in to gym mode. I’m going to stick with the AM kettlebell workouts 3x/week, ride the trainer 2 [...]
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August 14, 2009
My 6AM workout – 3X weekly Pushups – doing the routine from http://hundredpushups.com, I’m on week 3 Kettlebell swings waist high 4×10 Kettlebell swings overhead 4×10 Kettlebell press single arm 3×10 Kettlebell high pulls single arm 3×10 Kettlebell cleans single arm 3×10 Kettlebell squat 4×10 35lb kettlebell, 30 sec rest between sets, 90 sec between [...]
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August 12, 2009
Been experiencing a very irritating issue with my Polar CS600X. My customized display settings get wiped out so I have to redo them about once a week. The older CS600 was a much more reliable unit. If I didn’t need the extra memory and GPS I’d go back to that one. Polar seems to think [...]
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August 10, 2009
First off, hats off to Versus channel for broadcasting the Tour de France in HD TV. The race wasn’t that exciting early on but the images wee unreal on my 46″ screen. Something I did this year to motivate myself to ride more is mimic the route in my own way. For every mile the [...]
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