The Workout Of The Day for Tuesday, 8.23 – “Yeah, this isn’t exactly a surprise, is it?”
Hi there, folks!
Thanks once again for all the interest, and especially for the questions. It appears that very few people have questions, but the ones I do get are really darn good.
Thank you.
Yesterday, someone asked how to find old workouts.
The easiest way is to use the “search” function on the bottom right hand of the page.
If you log in suitably generic terms like “wednesday” or “2×20,” you will get lots of results. Gradually refine the search terms, and you can usually find what you’re looking for pretty quickly.
If you can’t find the article you’re looking for, or you have questions about anything, please ask! Answering questions is much easier than figuring out what the heck to write about, believe me! I lazily crave the feedback and article-fodder…
Aaaaaanyways, on with our usual business.
No Surprises, today is 2×20 Tuesday.
Hopefully you’re feeling energized and ready to go hard after yesterday’s recovery workout.
We’re doing 2×20’s, but how about a couple of options for you?
You can do the Classic 2×20 –
https://crosssports.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/workout-of-the-day-for-914-2/
Or the 2×20 Get-Up Style –
If you’ve been following along with these workouts, you have done one (or both!) of these exercises already.
Here’s the thing, though…
Keep track of what you do/did today!
I don’t much care how you do it, but but if you haven’t already, your main goal should be to establish a metric for today’s workout. Heck, for all of your workouts!
Wattage numbers are great, but many of you don’t have the spendy gear necessary to generate them.
There are other indicators you can use –
– What gear did you do the workout in, and at what cadence?
– What was your Heart rate during the intervals? Before? After?
– How far do (did) you go in 5 minutes? Ten? The full Twenty?
– What was your Perceived level of Exertion (PE)?
Allow me to reiterate: I don’t care how you do it, but figure out a way of capturing and cataloging just how hard you worked today.
You’re doing some pretty serious efforts on the bike today…
…but the real work you’re going to put in…
…is figuring out just how hard you had to work to do so.
Make sense?
If it doesn’t, it will.
M
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