Fitness 2012

[PDH]

It doesn't rain here, but biking 30 miles in a 30 knot crosswind wears me down.  Better than last week's headwind, but I will take yesterday's 13 miles into a 10mph wind then back with that same wind at a beam reach.

Plus, each 2 hour ride burns a fair amount of calories - the 3 mile climb in the middle also makes my legs nice and worked-outed.

[mongers]

It doesn't rain here, but biking 30 miles in a 30 knot crosswind wears me down.  Better than last week's headwind, but I will take yesterday's 13 miles into a 10mph wind then back with that same wind at a beam reach.

Plus, each 2 hour ride burns a fair amount of calories - the 3 mile climb in the middle also makes my legs nice and worked-outed.

Still haven't found and decent hills around here. 

[PDH]

The climb is about 1200 feet, a couple of steepish sections, but a nice grind.  I supposed people from flat places would call it a mountain, but given that the REAL riders pedal 25 miles so they can ride up 4000 feet, I will call it a hill.

[mongers]

The climb is about 1200 feet, a couple of steepish sections, but a nice grind.  I supposed people from flat places would call it a mountain, but given that the REAL riders pedal 25 miles so they can ride up 4000 feet, I will call it a hill.

So us 'flatlanders' aren't "REAL riders" ? 

[Eddie Teach]

The climb is about 1200 feet, a couple of steepish sections, but a nice grind.  I supposed people from flat places would call it a mountain, but given that the REAL riders pedal 25 miles so they can ride up 4000 feet, I will call it a hill.

So us 'flatlanders' aren't "REAL riders" ? 

You're not a real rider til you've biked at 20k+ elevation.

[PDH]

The climb is about 1200 feet, a couple of steepish sections, but a nice grind.  I supposed people from flat places would call it a mountain, but given that the REAL riders pedal 25 miles so they can ride up 4000 feet, I will call it a hill.

So us 'flatlanders' aren't "REAL riders" ? 

No, I am not a real rider as I only do 20-30 miles each time, the real riders around here do 100 mile round trips crossing the above mentioned mountain range twice...

[mongers]

The climb is about 1200 feet, a couple of steepish sections, but a nice grind.  I supposed people from flat places would call it a mountain, but given that the REAL riders pedal 25 miles so they can ride up 4000 feet, I will call it a hill.

So us 'flatlanders' aren't "REAL riders" ? 

No, I am not a real rider as I only do 20-30 miles each time, the real riders around here do 100 mile round trips crossing the above mentioned mountain range twice...

Oh, if you'd said Nutters, you'd have made yourself a lot clearer. 

[PDH]

I know one guy who regularly bikes all day saturdays...50 miles over the mountain range, 40 miles south, then back over the mountain range along a different highway...

Makes me hurt just to think of it. 

[mongers]

I know one guy who regularly bikes all day saturdays...50 miles over the mountain range, 40 miles south, then back over the mountain range along a different highway...

Makes me hurt just to think of it.

Yeah, I have a friend who works in a bike shop and he's just so much fitter, he'll talk about routes he'd recommend and it'll be go this way, and take detour to this city, so you can have some urban cycling as well; so on my 60 mile round trip from A to B, he'' go via C and D racking up an extra 40-100 miles on top.
Sometimes he'll even go via E as well, I swear he suggested I get to another B from this A so to speak, which was actually all further away than the place I'd intened to go to.   

[merithyn]

Owowowowowowow! Strength training hurts! 

Small problem that I'm kinda' hoping someone can help with. I'm trying to work the ab machines to help with core muscle stuff, but even on zero weights, I can't work the two machines that use the lower ab muscles.    What do I do to work on those muscles so that I can even use the machines?

[Faeelin]

Owowowowowowow! Strength training hurts! 

Small problem that I'm kinda' hoping someone can help with. I'm trying to work the ab machines to help with core muscle stuff, but even on zero weights, I can't work the two machines that use the lower ab muscles.    What do I do to work on those muscles so that I can even use the machines?

Start with basic lower ab exercises. IMO you don't need machines until you're pretty far along with ab workouts.

In other news, I can now squat 165 lbs, deadlift 185, push press 115, and bench 140. 

I can't decide if the paleo diet is helping or not; I've been doing a soft paleo, mostly cutting out grains but keeping greek yogurt and cottage cheese, because my cavemen ancestors drank milk.

[11B4V]

Owowowowowowow! Strength training hurts! 

Small problem that I'm kinda' hoping someone can help with. I'm trying to work the ab machines to help with core muscle stuff, but even on zero weights, I can't work the two machines that use the lower ab muscles.    What do I do to work on those muscles so that I can even use the machines?

Here's some ideas

http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/ab-exercises/lower-ab-exercises/

[merithyn]

Here's some ideas

http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/ab-exercises/lower-ab-exercises/

I can't do any of those. Got anything easier?

[mongers]

Here's some ideas

http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/ab-exercises/lower-ab-exercises/

I can't do any of those. Got anything easier?

11B4V doesn't know the meaning of easier.   

[11B4V]

Here's some ideas

http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/ab-exercises/lower-ab-exercises/

I can't do any of those. Got anything easier?

http://www.steadyhealth.com/articles/Ab_Exercises_that_Prevent_Back_Problems_a2164.html