Training Log sub forum

uberwolf

just popped into my head on the way home, anyone interested in adding a sub forum dedicated to training logs?

Raam

Howsit work?

Blowfish

Raam wrote: »

Howsit work?

A bit like the A/R/T one I'd guess.

Not a bad idea, though it might be better to wait a couple of months and kick it off after we've gotten past the snowy/icy bit of winter.

Lumen

Raam wrote: »

Howsit work?

Like this, except with fewer man bras and more cake.

edit: dammit, too slow

DirkVoodoo

As long as we ban Tunney and Scott from posting, this should be a training log forum for regular people, i.e. a post in january stating your goals, then a post a year later listing your excuses for not achieving them.

Blowfish

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

As long as we ban Tunney and Scott from posting, this should be a training log forum for regular people, i.e. a post in january stating your goals, then a post a year later listing your excuses for not achieving them.

That's why you should always include 'eat lots of cake' as a goal. At least then by the end of the year you'll have achieved something

uberwolf

Raam wrote: »

Howsit work?

fitness have one as well. It's effectively a diary - you mandate the quality of your inputs, seek guidance if approp, and get some encouragement

Diarmuid

go for it.... mandatory weekly updates too, to explain lack of progress!

uberwolf

poll added.

petethedrummer

mine would be easy peasy, cycled to work...cycled home again.

tunney

Blowfish wrote: »

A bit like the A/R/T one I'd guess.

Not a bad idea, though it might be better to wait a couple of months and kick it off after we've gotten past the snowy/icy bit of winter.

Don't they actually do training and racing over on A/R/T though?

uberwolf

Blowfish wrote: »

Not a bad idea, though it might be better to wait a couple of months and kick it off after we've gotten past the snowy/icy bit of winter.

tis now races are lost

tunney wrote: »

Don't they actually do training and racing over on A/R/T though?

meh, they're all posers

mloc123

tunney wrote: »

Don't they actually do training and racing over on A/R/T though?

And the threat of snow would not stop them either

thebouldwhacker

So would it be cycling only? what if one was cycling and running.... could the running log be posted too or would it be two legs baaad, two wheels gooood? Either way I need something to motivate me esp in this weather.

uberwolf

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

So would it be cycling only? what if one was cycling and running.... could the running log be posted too or would it be two legs baaad, two wheels gooood? Either way I need something to motivate me esp in this weather.

tbh, it is whatever the OP in their own thread wants. That's a double edged sword though. I'm doing some running at the mo, and have some two leg based aspirations for next year - posting those in here might give me little useful feedback, whereas I also have 2 wheel aspirations (currently less well defined) and using the a/r/t forum won't be as useful.

meh. based on the poll I'll ask for the forum, and see how it goes.

Ryder

Have seen the one on art. Looks like a great idea.

niceonetom

Bragging about how much training you've done is endemic in a lot of other sports but in cycling sandbagging is more effective. We don't disclose the hours on the turbo, we complain about recurrent niggles and illnesses and hope to be allowed wheelsuck until the showdown. A training log would be a)un-euro b) full of bullsh1t psyche-ops stuff dreamt up to intimidate or pacify the opposition. Just a thought.

uberwolf

niceonetom wrote: »

Bragging about how much training you've done is endemic in a lot of other sports but in cycling sandbagging is more effective. We don't disclose the hours on the turbo, we complain about recurrent niggles and illnesses and hope to be allowed wheelsuck until the showdown. A training log would be a)un-euro b) full of bullsh1t psyche-ops stuff dreamt up to intimidate or pacify the opposition. Just a thought.

I'm well aware of the glass crankers! Dunno, the thought had occured

Raam

I did 48 hours training today. Knackered now.

niceonetom

Haven't turned a pedal in 2 weeks.

Lumen

I bought a turbo last night. I sat on it for a few minutes without turning the pedals and now I have backache.

Ryder

Lumen wrote: »

I bought a turbo last night. I sat on it for a few minutes without turning the pedals and now I have backache.

On second thoughts...maybe this forum is a bad idea

Beasty

Lumen wrote: »

I bought a turbo last night. I sat on it for a few minutes without turning the pedals and now I have backache.

Don't sit on the turbo - put the bike on it, and sit on the bike - hopefully the back will take less strain this way:)

alfalad

Having read just half of one of the logs (and of a normal person not Tunney) i think it does motivate you a bit therefore can only be good! If you input false info then so be it but you know you have!

shergar22

Interesting piece about flexibility in the NY Times.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/phys-ed-how-necessary-is-stretching/?ex=1275195600&en=f48da631a7c89634&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1202-L15

Captain Havoc

shergar22 wrote: »

Interesting piece about flexibility in the NY Times.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/phys-ed-how-necessary-is-stretching/?ex=1275195600&en=f48da631a7c89634&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1202-L15

That's brilliant news for me

Lumen

shergar22 wrote: »

Interesting piece about flexibility in the NY Times.http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/phys-ed-how-necessary-is-stretching/?ex=1275195600&en=f48da631a7c89634&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1202-L15

Yes, but this is not cycling-specific.

I believe it is well understood that, in general terms, flexibility and stability work against each other. This is important in (for instance) cross-country running, where you need stable joints to avoid injuring yourself when you go over bumps.

But in cycling, your range of motion is severely constrained by the bicycle, so flexibility is less of a disadvantage.

As with discussions of flex in bicycle frames, to demonstrate that the elasticity is utilised positively it must be shown that energy is returned in such a way that it propels you forward.

petethedrummer

Hows about a flexibility thread? I was gonna start one over the weekend.

I did my first stretching session in about 8 years on saturday evening, I can't get any where near my toes in that sitting down stretch test. I definitely felt more comfortable on the bike the day after.

Raam

I was told by a most learned cyclist that flexibility is key.

Chips Lovell

Wow, the new sub-forum was there for a second then gone again.

Lumen

el tonto wrote: »

Wow, the new sub-forum was there for a second then gone again.

It's winking in and out of existence like an exposed nipple in an Assos advert.