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Howdy folks!

Yesterday should have been a pretty hard day for ya’all, so today we’re going to take it just a little bit easy.

Or, pretty damn easy.

If you did the District TT Sunday (or something along those lines,) you might be best off doing  just about nothing today. Feeling super-duper tired? OK, today your workout is….

One Hour Recovery Spin.

Get on your bike. Roll out into the street, and just spin around for an hour.

Really small gear, no hard efforts – heck, no medium effort. Spin. You’re looking to move your legs around in circles, almost like there is no chain on the bike. The idea is to get your body moving, flush the systems out, and speed your recovery.

When you do your recovery ride, if you have the time, just get out and spin aimlessly. At a certain point, your legs just suddenly feel better.

As soon as that happens, turn around, go home, eat, stretch, and put your legs up.

…or, you know, go to work.

Or School.

Or whatever real-world hassle you have to deal with. 🙂

Feeling a little bit less than completely waxed today?

Great! (well, OK. Really, that means you probably didn’t go hard enough yesterday, but I will cut you some slack…)

If you have extra energy, use it today to do some off the bike work, and get busy with…

Core and Stability Excercises.

First, read this –

https://crosssports.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/crunches-r-bad-mmmkay/

Then, go and do some Good core work. Not this –

Remember, your core is more than just your gym-mirror muscles.

Sure, work on your abs, but also work on your back, obliques, the small supportive/connective muscles… heck, you should try to work everything that isn’t your legs and your arms… That’s your core.

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Yeah, I know – that’s pretty damn vague.

I’ve been working on my “Pretty damn good not vague at all comprehensive core workout” post for a while, but it isn’t done yet.  Sorry.

The link above gives some info on good stuff to start with, and  cyclists should all spend a fair bit of time working on stability as well as strength…

…so when in doubt, default to Isometric or Plank-style excercises.

Here’s a great place to start –

http://www.ab-core-and-stomach-exercises.com/isometric-exercises-for-stomach.html

Remember, Rasmussen may have been leading the TDF, but…

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damn…

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G’night,

M

~ by crosssports on August 1, 2010.

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