Cycling-Related Strength & Conditioning

But what if some nodder overtakes me? Think of my pride!

:P

Three pints of wine per week sounds good. Count me in :p

one and a half bottles?

is that all?

Where are you getting 2 pint bottles of wine from!?

I want some

^What are YOU doing on this thread? This is no place for our kind...

Getting tips on booze by the looks of it!

You're too young to start on the Vino, Cooky. Unless it's Thunderbird

That's not very much protein considering you've been fasting all thru the night and don't eat until after you've arrived at work, or do you have something before you leave the house? Consider adding some nuts/sunflower/pumpkin seeds to your post commute snack or have something before you set off - a smoothie or bowl of cereal? A tbls of peanut butter, half pint of milk, banana and a bit of honey blended up makes an easily digestible, macro-nutrient rich start.

bowl of cereal and cup of coffee! T of peanut butter also a good idea. I make my own! I've been eating it with leftover dark chocolate I chopped up. so yum!

I like the idea of that smoothie, I need to get one of those stick blenders since our roomie took his up to Derbyshire. That sounds strange but it isn't. He travels for work.

Where are you getting 2 pint bottles of wine from!?

I want some

LOL! Have you seen the wine glass that holds 1 bottle? Btw, wouldn't 1 bottle be 750mL and the one up from that is 1L? Then they get bigger from there, these huge bottles, called like Methuselahs and whatnot...or is that only champagne?

Oh, here we go! Looks like it's champers I'm thinking of.

If you intend on getting quality miles/training done on rides other than your commute, it's mental to go 100% on your commute and 'win' all the time.

Great way to burn out, or hit a plateau that you'll never get past.

Sorry to be blunt, but it's stupid stupid stupid. I've said it before on here, and I've been a twat and done it myself.

Since slowing down and just rolling along in commuter mode, even allowing - shock horror - hi-viz nodders to 'beat' me, I've arrived at work more composed and less sweaty, taking an insignificantly longer amount of time to get there, and been able to work harder when it counts. Net result: faster, stronger, recover better, less stressed on the way to/from work.

And how happy are we, as cyclists/pedestrians, when we have to deal with people racing to/from work using other forms of transport. Not very. It creates unnecessary risks for all involved.

Sorry to rant (except I'm not).

Yeah speak to me if you need this confirmed by someone else.
Unless the (extended) commute is part of my structured training plan

It's pretty difficult to do any structured/beneficial training on your (extended) commute, unless it's in relatively fresh air, and involves long uninterrupted stretches of tarmac; and provides 15minutes of continuous riding at the beginning for a progressive warm-up.

Traffic/lights/junctions = compromise/danger/injury/rubbish training.

Yes I agree. But I work right next to Regents Park now so its quite handy to do three or four laps before work in the morning

Inner Circle, of course. You're not a fucking endurance monkey ;)

Fat, unfit sprinters have a good few weeks of endurance monkeying to do this winter, unfortunately.

It's all meant to be L2 or whatever the fuck you call it though, isn't it? I think I'd be tempted to arrange early morning childcare, just to have the chance to see Mike attempt to rein himself in that much for 4 laps of Regent's Park.

In fact, I'd deploy tactical nodders 50 yards ahead of him, doing 20mph, each time he came past the zoo. Bet he'd crack.

Ha, yeah Zone2.
"THE NODDY ZONE"

flash gordon music begins

Commander Bring, dispatch the noddys to slow down Mike C......

Gizmond's alive?

In fact, I'd deploy tactical nodders 50 yards ahead of him, doing 20mph, each time he came past the zoo. Bet he'd crack.

Hehe

Yes zone 3. I was actually very disciplined last year. A nice slow 20 min warm up to get to Regents Park, then, with a heart rate monitor and all, an hour before or after work.

These short one hour sessions are zone 3, the long 2 hour plus are zone 2. Its all very confusing.

Ha, yeah Zone2.
"THE NODDY ZONE"

flash gordon music begins

Commander Bring, dispatch the noddys to slow down Mike C......

Lol

It was lovely to be back on the bike today after my holiday

I discovered yesterday (and not before time) that my right arm is significantly longer than my left, about 20mm.
When deadlifting in front of a mirror I could see my left shoulder was dropped right down with the bar level. It immediately felt better once I squared up my shoulders by dropping the bar on the right side to take up the difference. Also the wrist/forearm pain from the left arm I was having disappeared.

Obviously there are going to be implications for things involving the barbell here, should I block up one side of the bar by 20mm so when I lift off the floor I am working evenly? Or simply adjust grip width until bar and shoulders are level?

There are also bike fitting connotations here, do I try to mod my handlebars to keep my body square on when hands are evenly holding the drops?

Difficult one. Do you think it's related to uneven flexibility i.e. could you lessen the discrepancy by improving things on your left?

And is the discrepancy definitely in your arms, rather than due to other alignment issues?

Yes, measured from shoulder to wrist 22mm longer on the right.
It might be related to all those years of hard labour, but I suspect it's just a physiological defect.

Have you taken other measurements? Elbow to wrist, top of tricep to elbow, shoulder 'notch' to elbow, etc?

Just making sure, init, although you're probably defective, yes.

^just done that, looks to be evenly spread across each section, ie. about 11mm shoulder to elbow, and 11mm elbow to wrist.

Hmm, I can't help you then :(

It's not a lot, is it. Less than an inch. Would it really cause any serious longterm problems to carry on as you have been doing, letting your body do it's much-practised minor compensation thing?

Can't really find anything in 'the literature' either. Most anthropometric research seems to centre around performance prediction, and most limb-length discrepancy stuff is leg-based.