Training Advice

Interestingly (to me only, obviously) having seen the physio again today, I have an abnormally small amount of red blood cells coupled with an abnormally low % of slow twitch muscle (compensated by abnormally high white blood cells and abnormally high fast twitch %).

These where some prelim findings and I will get the full set of result next week, but she said basically there is only a certain point I can push my muscular endurance too, and it will never be good :-(

Perks of joining a new gym :-)

Apologies to any physio types if I made some mistake, she explained it much better.

I have poor lungs, but for the past couple years Ive been really active. Doing lots of fast bike riding (for me) a couple times everyday, and recently some lifting. Tests at the doctors showed that I increased my lung capacity from about 60% (reccomended for age group) to about 85% over the past few years. But the most surprising thing is that my haemoglobin level (the bit of the red blood cell that holds the oxygen) is much higher than normal. The doctor said that he has only ever seen this in chain smokers, but I think it is pretty obvious my body has been adapting in the only ways it can to provide enough oxygen.

I dont know about my muscle composition though, but im guessing the fast twitch will be very low. As my sprint speed has always been slow and I could never jump very high etc.