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Get Fit Fast: 5 Quick Road Bike Workouts
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if you want to ride your bike faster next summer you would be well-advised to spend this winter doing the correct training sessions you would but we haven’t all got loads of time to Train so coming up we’ve got five short potent and beneficial sessions they should have have you dropping your mates next summer I think he’s got a head start yeah he hasn’t got much time to Train [Music] this first one to these you in relatively gently have a nice warm up for about ten minutes then it’s time to start what we call the ramp so for the first ten minutes of this session ride at around five out of ten perceived effort level then every ten minutes increase that effort level by one until for the final ten minutes of the hour you’re riding at a ten out of ten effort which is pretty difficult of course then at the end have a nice five minute warm down [Music] khempo is a rather well used word in our world of cycling but there’s little doubt if you’re it strapped for time you want to get fit quickly it’s very effective indeed so this next session is all about a ten-minute block warm up again for ten minutes and then start the first of five ten-minute blocks at tempo now if you’re going purely on field you feel like an 8 out of 10 effort of using a heart rate monitor you get around 85 to 95 percent of your functional threshold heart rate or do you have another parameter between 75 and 90 percent of your FTP now the interesting bit of this session regards our recovery so between the first and the second set of 10 minutes we’re going to get 8 minutes of riding easily but then between the second and third sets just 6 minutes then 4 minutes and then only 2 minutes between the penultimate and the final set of 10 minutes then the price price you get 10 minutes to warm down at the end and then you’re all done Gustav in just an hour and a half when you’re doing the effort so you need to really focus and keeping it smooth so smooth pedal technique staying seated and thinking about a rock-solid upper body for this session you need to rope in a mate and you’ll need to be at a reasonably similar standard but you can tailor the session to accommodate any variance in fitness we want to start with a 10 minute warm-up and then we’re going to do long turns on the front at sweet spot intensity so that is about 9 out of 10 on the effort level meter and about 88 to 95 percent of your functional threshold power and about 95% of your functional threshold heart rate and those long turns he talks about 10 minutes I’m going to repeat them until you’ve done a total of 40 minutes riding after your warmup and then when a shorten them down to 5 minutes ends will keep swapping until you get an hour of riding try to choose a relatively flat or gently undulating bit of road so there’s little in the way of disturbance now if one rider is from than the other make sure the stronger rider spends just a little bit more time on the front and equally the weaker rider spends just a little bit less time on the front you do a bit longer mate just keep going a bit longer more yeah this is a training ride which you can get done in an hour and you can do it out on the open road if you’ve got suitable roads and suitable trade or you can easily get it done on an indoor trailer to once again as ever warm up for around ten minutes for starting the first of three micro interval blocks yeah now the first session is 10 minutes of 40 seconds hard and 20 seconds easy now this is a really good session to do on feel so the 40 seconds hard should be done around 9 out of 10 sort of perceived effort level whilst the other 20 seconds should be done at around 3 perceived effort level just depending on how good you’re feeling after that first 10 minutes do 10 minutes a fairly easy riding then repeat it again and do another 10 minutes a fairly easy riding before starting your final block which is only 5 minutes long but this time you’re going to do 20 seconds hard and 10 seconds evening again with the 10 seconds being a 3 out of 10 effort level but a 20 seconds benign or even 10 out of 10 effort level 35 minute cooldown and your session is done that’s good there is definitely no harm in doing some sprint training over the winter in fact we would definitely recommend it either just trying to maintain or indeed improve your top end power yes this next one is a good again a good one to do with a friend and the idea is it’s lightly longer warming up around 50 to 20 minutes before doing the first of 20 Sprint’s 20 that’s right you heard that right 20 sprints luck it’s definitely achievable so for the first 10 you want to have one person on the front leaning out sprinting in the saddle for 10 seconds before the second rider then there’s a 10 second sprint out of the saddle and also late for the first 10 three each one have three minutes a very easy riding then your final 10 Sprint’s we think you should have a bit of a wreck 10 seconds flat out head to head now if one rider all the way with three minutes recovery between a court one rider will inevitably I’m sure be a slightly stronger sprinter and they need to be handicapped so start sprinting maybe one or two seconds later and then the weaker Rider tries to hold them off and the stronger rider tries to catch them up through set off inside smile we’d love to know how you get on with these sessions and you can do that or leave me a comment down below yep now bear in mind that these are pretty tough sessions I and so that you probably don’t want to do more than two or three a week and make sure that you get enough recovery between them and then what else is left where you’ve got to sit cracking it so know what don’t know what session he’s doing but certainly intense I produced really quite a few as well to go well come so anyway what we’re saying subscribe to GCN to do that just click on the globe now for video on how to calculate your functional threshold power FTP and your functional threshold heart rate click just pop it yet or for some training tips on how to raise that all important functional threshold power click just down there to knit when he’s go find him he’s gone into a fielder yes we’re gonna have to go now it’s in a bit
Get Fit Fast: 5 Quick Road Bike Workouts
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if you want to ride your bike faster next summer you would be well-advised to spend this winter doing the correct training sessions you would but we haven’t all got loads of time to Train so coming up we’ve got five short potent and beneficial sessions they should have have you dropping your mates next summer I think he’s got a head start yeah he hasn’t got much time to Train [Music] this first one to these you in relatively gently have a nice warm up for about ten minutes then it’s time to start what we call the ramp so for the first ten minutes of this session ride at around five out of ten perceived effort level then every ten minutes increase that effort level by one until for the final ten minutes of the hour you’re riding at a ten out of ten effort which is pretty difficult of course then at the end have a nice five minute warm down [Music] khempo is a rather well used word in our world of cycling but there’s little doubt if you’re it strapped for time you want to get fit quickly it’s very effective indeed so this next session is all about a ten-minute block warm up again for ten minutes and then start the first of five ten-minute blocks at tempo now if you’re going purely on field you feel like an 8 out of 10 effort of using a heart rate monitor you get around 85 to 95 percent of your functional threshold heart rate or do you have another parameter between 75 and 90 percent of your FTP now the interesting bit of this session regards our recovery so between the first and the second set of 10 minutes we’re going to get 8 minutes of riding easily but then between the second and third sets just 6 minutes then 4 minutes and then only 2 minutes between the penultimate and the final set of 10 minutes then the price price you get 10 minutes to warm down at the end and then you’re all done Gustav in just an hour and a half when you’re doing the effort so you need to really focus and keeping it smooth so smooth pedal technique staying seated and thinking about a rock-solid upper body for this session you need to rope in a mate and you’ll need to be at a reasonably similar standard but you can tailor the session to accommodate any variance in fitness we want to start with a 10 minute warm-up and then we’re going to do long turns on the front at sweet spot intensity so that is about 9 out of 10 on the effort level meter and about 88 to 95 percent of your functional threshold power and about 95% of your functional threshold heart rate and those long turns he talks about 10 minutes I’m going to repeat them until you’ve done a total of 40 minutes riding after your warmup and then when a shorten them down to 5 minutes ends will keep swapping until you get an hour of riding try to choose a relatively flat or gently undulating bit of road so there’s little in the way of disturbance now if one rider is from than the other make sure the stronger rider spends just a little bit more time on the front and equally the weaker rider spends just a little bit less time on the front you do a bit longer mate just keep going a bit longer more yeah this is a training ride which you can get done in an hour and you can do it out on the open road if you’ve got suitable roads and suitable trade or you can easily get it done on an indoor trailer to once again as ever warm up for around ten minutes for starting the first of three micro interval blocks yeah now the first session is 10 minutes of 40 seconds hard and 20 seconds easy now this is a really good session to do on feel so the 40 seconds hard should be done around 9 out of 10 sort of perceived effort level whilst the other 20 seconds should be done at around 3 perceived effort level just depending on how good you’re feeling after that first 10 minutes do 10 minutes a fairly easy riding then repeat it again and do another 10 minutes a fairly easy riding before starting your final block which is only 5 minutes long but this time you’re going to do 20 seconds hard and 10 seconds evening again with the 10 seconds being a 3 out of 10 effort level but a 20 seconds benign or even 10 out of 10 effort level 35 minute cooldown and your session is done that’s good there is definitely no harm in doing some sprint training over the winter in fact we would definitely recommend it either just trying to maintain or indeed improve your top end power yes this next one is a good again a good one to do with a friend and the idea is it’s lightly longer warming up around 50 to 20 minutes before doing the first of 20 Sprint’s 20 that’s right you heard that right 20 sprints luck it’s definitely achievable so for the first 10 you want to have one person on the front leaning out sprinting in the saddle for 10 seconds before the second rider then there’s a 10 second sprint out of the saddle and also late for the first 10 three each one have three minutes a very easy riding then your final 10 Sprint’s we think you should have a bit of a wreck 10 seconds flat out head to head now if one rider all the way with three minutes recovery between a court one rider will inevitably I’m sure be a slightly stronger sprinter and they need to be handicapped so start sprinting maybe one or two seconds later and then the weaker Rider tries to hold them off and the stronger rider tries to catch them up through set off inside smile we’d love to know how you get on with these sessions and you can do that or leave me a comment down below yep now bear in mind that these are pretty tough sessions I and so that you probably don’t want to do more than two or three a week and make sure that you get enough recovery between them and then what else is left where you’ve got to sit cracking it so know what don’t know what session he’s doing but certainly intense I produced really quite a few as well to go well come so anyway what we’re saying subscribe to GCN to do that just click on the globe now for video on how to calculate your functional threshold power FTP and your functional threshold heart rate click just pop it yet or for some training tips on how to raise that all important functional threshold power click just down there to knit when he’s go find him he’s gone into a fielder yes we’re gonna have to go now it’s in a bit
How Fit Can Dan Get In 10 Weeks?
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You’ll have noticed over the past few months on GSN that there had been a number of references to my lack of health partly tine cheek but I do have to admit that there’s greater than a grain of actuality to it you see in 2018 I reckon I did less than a thousand kilometers in complete on my bike there are a few factors for that I is not going to go into excellent element however there is first of all the fact that i am abroad and for that reason away a lot and i’ve bought a family i don’t wish to get back house i’m going on the bike for 3 hours instantly when I get by means of the door there’s additionally the truth that I’ve received relatively a protracted travel into work and works been very busy good i am undoubtedly now not complaining about that motive i am very privileged i really like work and i love talking about sight notably of that although there’s the fact that but there may be the fact that i have never relatively desired to move out on my bike or else relatively frankly i would have made the time and i have been taking into account why that’s and i suppose i do know the cause I’ve concluded that the cause I got into biking was once not for the recent air or the gorgeous views that you just get or the centric enterprise or the social the health aspect it is considering the fact that I desired to get higher and faster do designated intervals and spot my numbers go up and ultimately get higher outcome in races and before you say whatever i know I wasn’t particularly successful in that division either however that was the rationale that I did it I got so far as I could with my ability however seven years down the line that power and pace has gone i will by no means be as excellent as I was once oh which you could start with the violins now the point i am looking to make is that uncle’ getting unfit I imply it is been a just right cause what i have been using ebikes and videos recently par from the actual fact they may be high-quality fun without one I are not able to preserve up with the opposite presenters who’re more commonly still fit as a fiddle and that i need to do something about it I imply i am going to be 40 rather quickly and this could be a slippery slope and principally i would like something that’s going to offset the ancient mineral water consumption the pub beer you are gonna want a 2d we’re going mmm and so I’ve hatched a plan one I consider even I will have to be capable to stay to i’m going to decide to a coaching application that’s ten weeks lengthy every week i will do 5 hours of coaching in whole of which 4 is going to be on the bye and with a view to be as time effective as possible i will be doing most of that on an indoor coach so with all that in intellect I acquired in touch with supper fest and they have kindly agreed to provide me with that very distinct 10-week training software to get essentially the most out of myself and likewise with elites who have kindly furnished me with a drive out to advise intelligent trainer upon which I might be struggling so a complete of 40 hours on the bike over ten weeks how difficult can it be extra importantly how match am i able to get over that point we additionally find out I first need to establish how fit or unfit i’m correct now and that lamentably goes to contain a lot of anguish on an indoor experiment i will do the whole frontal 4d peace of the fest experiment which I spoke to Neal Henderson about earlier he’s undergo fest chief science officer and educate to Rowan Dennis well Time Trial champion no much less Neal thank you to begin with for agreeing to instruct me over the next ten weeks opener taking too much time faraway from Rowan Dennis’s plan but I ought to do some checking out instances day i do know a little bit bit about the full-frontal for DP from what sy and Kris did lately however in case you might go over it again so i do know completely what i am in for that might be satisfactory yeah big photograph what we’re doing here is getting an proposal of the place you’re at throughout a number of exceptional time domains so we’re gonna start off with some short sprint efforts which are about six seconds long that’s telling us about your top nor muscular vigor 2d effort you are gonna do is gonna be a 5 minute effort and that’s gonna be what we name your max aerobic energy type of similar to just like the energy at vo2 max so that type of establishes your upper air robic ceiling that is one of the extra excessive scan efforts however do not fear we do follow it up with something else a little bit more somewhat more sustained on that 20 minute effort that is gonna then be particularly your your FTP or looking to maximum sustainable energy we do those in that order in order that we fairly get a better inspiration of what you could truly preserve putting that five minute on the entrance end it really does type of take the sting out and so that 20-minute is fairly extra sensible to what you could preserve for possibly as much as about an hour notably when you get through the entire ten weeks after which we emerge as with a final one-minute effort for what we name your anaerobic capacity and that is somewhat bit about diving fairly deep into these anaerobic reserves quite producing a ton of lactate and quite emptying out the tank wow it sounds brutal I imply I’ve achieved all of those intervals as a scan earlier than but no longer exact no longer inside an hour on the whole now not on the identical day i do not suppose in the past however i will provide it a go i am no longer definite what to anticipate virtually I’ve received no reference within the last 12 to sixteen months particularly of what i’m in a position of and that i presume i would love to fair bit so I feel pacing is going to be potentially really complicated yeah for definite because you’re coming up from the sofa right here there’s a type of matters that like in just a little bit on the judicious facet at the begin is often going to aid you out you realize we customarily say in that first 5 minutes to take the first couple minutes feeling such as you would most likely do extra mostly you’re just hanging on for pricey life within the last you recognize ninety seconds or minute or in order that 20 minute good goal probably is to make use of perhaps about eighty% of what you did for the 5-minute if you see what your traditional energy was once and just about there i’ve been sake far more bucks in juice on account that you mentioned this test so I feel I dunno what i am in for we’ll see whether or not i’m ready we will see what number of stuff the credits I’ve bought left in reality after struggling lots for the duration of my career i’m capable though i’m gonna go do the test now best just right good fortune Dan suffer good it can be time for the experiment my first Summerfest as Neal simply defined it can be referred to as four dimensional vigor or 4 DP or full-frontal so alternatively than simply doing a twenty minute experiment and extrapolating my FTP from that i’m additionally going to doing a max spring experiment appear at neuromuscular vigour that’s the one that’s going to come back first adopted by way of short destroy then a 5 minute effort to establish my maximal cardio vigour then it’s 20 minute test to establish FTP and finally in all-out one-minute effort to seek out my anaerobic power there is an excellent motive for this precise protocol it is on the grounds that every rider is unique and your FTP simplest tells part of your story so founded on the results of the test at present sufferfest will set very exact intervals with the intention to make sure that i’m struggling to the full at each period and for this reason making them highest features feasible over the following ten weeks and the truth that the assessments are very unique is gonna be critical to me when you consider that i am simplest doing four hours training a week and i want to ensure I get probably the most out of these hours on the bike presently i’m just five minutes into my warm-up heartrate already creeping up to 120 the notes cuz i am beautiful unfilled given that i’m particularly nervous why now i’m worried because I will not say bathroom twice pulled to begin this I’ve heard it’s gonna damage lots from a couple of humans slightly below two minutes until the first a part of the scan which is the primary of two’s max effort sprints the easiest of the test honestly [Music] slightly below a minute to head until my 5 minute effort so rather of being in a tall Britain i’m now on the dura d’Italia within the mountains I think i am annoying for about 300 that appears rather conservative I’ve bought no thought what to assume but i’m going to understand after a few minutes whether or not i can crease it or if that’s about right well if it can be an excessive amount of perhaps [Applause] [Music] I believe I pasted it about right I reckon I averaged recover from 300 somewhat miserable in itself on account that I’ve executed a pair rides up to now or I’ve had you averaged 300 watts for four hours and still got to someplace annoyingly have not got lengthy left before the twenty minutes s despite the fact that that is a component of this for the twenty minute test the common of in an effort to be what’s makes use of my FTP considering the 5 minutes that I’ve done that you will do before will carry that twenty minute vigour down and after your consultant of what you might frequently do for an hour if you are completely recent and i’m without doubt no longer thoroughly fresh three minutes to head ok ok get ready toidy three two one regular on the only three minutes in how are you 10 one hundred sixty but it surely does suppose relatively difficult to keep 250 watts in a second I suggestion I almost always typical about 240 up to now 2 4 5 mini [Music] – yeah gazing yo here we go sans Lord shake come on fight come on Francis Bacon yes gorgeous non secular are disloyal [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] yeah it can be just right have powers long gone up since you came in handiest i’m no longer sure i can final three minutes nearly recovered from the 20 minute sufficient to talk I consider a page that now not too unhealthy beautiful about 245 watts I reckon it did go up I’ve got excited once I had a crowd coming so it went to 60 and dip back off within the final minute or so now for the 5 minutes and the 20 minute scan it can be quite important to % it if you go too rapid at the you’ll be able to particularly die and your price and normal can be scale back than it must be but with one minute which you could find the money for to entrance-load it go fairly difficult on the begin and simply try to preserve on even though the vigour will probably be happening that is what i’m going to take a look at to do nevertheless it does make it a very long minute and i’m the robic one minute effort although now not after the earlier efforts ten seconds by using or [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wow [Music] Oh [Music] Oh oh I’ve almost recovered it’s about three hours after I completed my scan i’m definite we will want to hear what the targeted results were so my highest 5-2nd vigor was 1035 used to be what too shabby at least I got into four figures there for five minutes I did 309 watts which is about what I was anticipating Oh then for 20 minutes I did 244 what so that is what will be my baseline FTP and then for that final one-minute experiment I did 440 was once now those outcome have somewhat tremendously categorised me as a sprinter I suppose the rationale for this is that I’ve misplaced a long way less of my very top end energy than i’ve on the longer length experiment so that could trade over the direction of the following 10 which if you are my present weight is 73 kilograms we surround about 4 kilograms more than my racing weight was again around about ten years ago now I sent all of the results over to Neil who’s been scanning over them so i am gonna name him now get the verdicts and get my program Neil I’ve just about recovered few hours after I did the test but I suppose it kinda was expected from my point of view nowhere near where I was earlier than however i could not anticipate to be there yeah i would say you realize I checked out some historic comparisons of what you did in these days versus what you’ve carried out let’s just say possibly about 10 years in the past and absolutely you will have had some decreases here and there but we received a plan to aid you flip that around yeah yeah well yeah it would be studious plans I’ve obtained 10 weeks I’ve acquired 4 hours on the bike there supply me an hour or so off the bike each and every week – so let’s with past the bike training which i’m going to be doing customarily on indoor trainers to maintain it focused but what is the plan over that ten weeks yeah tremendous photo we’re gonna have a balance of work and relaxation so we’ve got ten weeks to work with and we’re gonna do two weeks of style of extra intense coaching for week one and two and then the 1/3 week pull you again we’ll repeat that again a two week on one week off and for the final 4 weeks it should without a doubt be a 3 week on after which followed by way of an simpler week at the finish earlier than you get to retest and see what variety of improvement you make from in the full-frontal from today verse and week around and now could be it going to be divided between special intensities of effort you’re gonna concentrate me on one form every week like FTP or the anaerobic efforts or is there a bit of a little bit of each one each and every week yeah there’s there may be slightly bit of a mix this coming week is gonna be for just transition to get you again on so we will pull back the intensity a bit bit this first week to your second week is gonna have a little bit bit more of a focal point on on some strength a little bit bit better apparatus work and similar to you mention one of the most stuff off the bike some of the force coaching and matters like so that it will are all gonna be part of that and so it is fairly the balance of work and leisure so we’re no longer gonna not gonna put the hearth hose to you within the first week yeah so the stuff off the bike force coaching yoga comprehend him as a mental spring coaching which I I consider I would do i ponder if I would have pushed myself somewhat bit tougher on a few those checks if i have been mentally greater despite the fact that I was good I was continually unwell closer to the tip I push myself pretty rough the hour off the bike how will that week divide up and what am I more likely to achieve with that yeah we’re gonna give you a little bit of a mixture in a ultimate world we’d have you realize perhaps even something most days that you’re on the bike is you’re gonna have 4 days on the bike each and every week with the components that we’ve got for force training yoga and the intellectual longevity we’re simply gonna insert one of the vital highlights and one of the most key matters that are gonna be serving to you out in that week and as we construct up over the ten weeks cool i am watching forward to without a doubt so 10 weeks 4 hours we one hour off fit given my historical past and the dearth of training I’ve executed for the last 12 months or so what are you anticipating why do you feel i will be able to get to in 10 weeks plenty of times will say you realize a good fee of development is round one percentage per week although there’s a caveat that you have an expertise as a reliable athlete and so it can be possible that you may respond a bit of bit better than than the typical and so i wouldn’t be shocked if we saw some video games even within the 15 or 20% for you although i’m gonna set that the gold bar is about a ten percentage growth i am in my opinion aiming for a 300 watt FTP which is waiting yeah yeah it is in the realm of possibility effortless no feasible sure well i’d say there we go i am gonna be so to discover how so much acquire i will be able to make over the path of following couple of weeks i’m really fairly looking forward to seeing the numbers optimistically going the right direction all right Archie so Disney down there we go one and that is the place i’m going to be doing my struggling for the subsequent ten weeks as a minimum on the bike that is my small affliction cable supper station i assume you would name it now so I squeezed into the corner of our garage given that my spouse acquired this Jaguar however it’s quite just right for resting in towers on Wall road raining now as I stated previous elite sponsoring this for the following ten weeks and they’ve given me their power OH – smart trainer to make use of in that time and very satisfied about that for two explanations to begin with it can be really heavy and solid which goes to be quite useful given my newfound sprinter popularity however secondly the vigour meter inside of it’s enormously correct plus or minus 0.5 percentage so more correct that almost all vigor meters that you’ll be able to get on bikes out on the open avenue that’s so most important to me considering that I used to be peculiarly anal about my energy dater after I used to be a full time ride I even used to calibrate my possess vigour meter more often than not with the aid of putting weight off the cracks so up right here I’ve received my flat monitor television with my computing device hooked up at the back of it so I’ve acquired myself s programs there and then feel it or now not I’ve bought two fans I had many lovers in my lifetime too while it is pretty specified I specifically like that one there it’s resting on prime of the weed bin considering it makes me cool weird it’s fairly difficult to do as you realize i don’t suppose i am gonna be competent to again out of this now i am completely dedicated if you need to join in you’re greater than welcome if i’d like to have you ever alongside for the ride over the following 10 weeks we would have a mini competition so that you can make the most important percentage features over that point which might be beautiful fascinating you’ve got obtained a lot of time to get involved should you so wish we’re going to put all of the important points into the description just under this video my program starts on Tuesday the 8th of January so you’ve bought plenty of time to suffer in the full frontal test like I did just a little bit previous on once we get to Tuesday the eighth i am gonna supply typical updates on my social media so facebook Twitter and Instagram as good as importing all of my numbers to Strava the place you can see me at Daniel Lloyd from Bournemouth Plus on prime of all of that i’m going to give you updates on my development weekly every Tuesday on the GSN exhibit which in actual fact way i am no longer going to be ready to slack at all for the duration of this coaching software for now though i’m going to bid you a fond farewell as I mentally put together myself for my first training session meanwhile although if you want to see the causes behind the trying out protocol from Sufis it’s not simply for the reason that they may be sailors there’s some sound scientific reasoning in the back of it – psy explains all in the video that’s simply down right here
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Training For Enduro Ep. 1 | Neil’s Fitness Test
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– Right. So I’ve decided I need to do some racing. I haven’t done much for a while. I did one cross-country race last year in Sireston. That’s what about it. So I’m going to do the final round of the EWS this year in (mumbles). I’ve not done any Enduro Racing for quite a while. So I think I’m going to need some help so I’ve come to Bristol. Come to BW Cycling and I’ve got a three-time Olympian, a Silver medalist, (mumbles) a five time National cross country champion, Oli Beckinsale to give me a hand and try to get me fit. (intense music) (mumbles) by Oli. I don’t know what we’re doing. I have done things like a VO2 max test and threshold tests in the past when I was a pro. And they’re horrible but one needs to wear a mask, I guess.
I’m getting my excuses out of the way. I’ve not been training. I definitely don’t have as much time as I used to have. I do a little bit of weights. Go to the gym a little bit. But no where near as much time on the bike as I’d like. So, I’ve got my kit. Check out all the old World Cup number number plates.
There are some new ones in there. I recognize some of those myself. Okay, and here’s (mumbles) bike. So, here I am, Oli. I’m in your hands. Okay, so what I’m doing is getting changed. I’m just gonna talk abut what we can actually do today. – Today we’re doing a VO2 max test. A simple way of looking at it is like we’re gonna ride an ever-steepening climb until Neil actually gets to his maximum.
And what we measuring is his aerobic capacity. So, it’s his ability to use oxygen as a fuel source for the work of his muscles. Okay. So it’s the kind of Blue Ribbon fitness test for him. Okay. How that ties in with his EWS. EWS, he’s got his short, sharp bursts. He’s gonna be doing two days of racing, two days of practice before. In his racing, he’s going to be doing really intense anaerobic downhill effort at the whole day. That’s only six to eight small sections. The rest of the time it’s all really hard, steady state exercise. He’s gonna need that aerobic fitness to get him, firstly, through the four days. And secondly, so when he does the really hard downhill sections he’s still going to be able to perform at his best.
And allow him to use his technical skills, rather than just blagging the sections. So once Neil’s done the test, what we’re gonna have is a VO2 maximum for him. We ought to get some really good training zones. So, Neil’s gonna be short on time. He’s got a busy job, young family. Like a lot of other guys, he’s probably only got three or four hours to train for an event that’s actually gonna be really long in endurance. So, if he’s got some good training zones, some good kick.
He can get the best bang for his buck and then achieve his goal. (heavy bass music) (bass chant) So, I’m warming up for the test now. I’m actually getting a little bit nervous thinking about what I’ve gotta do for Finale. They’re really big days. I thin`k you probably ride like 200K for four days. So 5,000 meters climbing. So, a lot of riding and I’ll see six or eight time stages where I’ve got good skill downhill speed. So, there’s work to be done. This fly’s pretty technical. Big hills. Nothing super steep as far as I can remember. Sort of long technical stages. Really physical. Lots of sprinting. And, of course, big liaisons back on top of the hill.
– Here we’re just starting the exercise test now. You can see we’ve got 160 watts on the kicker. We’re measuring his heart rate here. So he’s sitting here. 133, 134. That’s what we’d expect for a kind of steady state. And we’re measuring here his VO2. So that’s milligrams of oxygen per kilogram per minute. So that’s how you’re measuring that VO2. And you can see we’ve got oxygen consumption on the bottom here. As we increase, that yellow line, that VO2, we’ll see that VO2 rise. And then the heartrate as well. Once we go back through the numbers in the background when the test is done, we’ll have a good indication of Neil’s ability to burn fat as a fuel source. There’s a step change when that happens. And we’ll get a good indication of his threshold power.
So that will tell help give us some really good, accurate training zones. Step now, in the power, we’re taking him up to 180. So obviously, after the test today we’ll have a good indication let’s say of Neil’s current level of fitness. What we’re gonna do is put some good training in place. And then ultimately come back again and try and get that power up with the same heart rate and fitness levels. An increase in VO2 we’ll see as well.
(hard driving music) We’re gonna take it up a notch. (intense drum beat and chant) Just keep that cadence up. Don’t let it drop too much. I know you’re not a spinner but we don’t want to see it drop. If you let that cadence drop, the trainer will just load on top of you. All right? Focus on that cadence. Don’t let it drop. We’re going up again to 340 watts. Let’s see if we can crack this one. That’s good. Keep that cadence. But don’t let it slide. It won’t make it easier, all right? Let’s get this one done. (intense music) 20 seconds. See if you can clear this block. C’mon, mate. And then that block will all be up. C’mon. C’mon, mate. You can do this. Five, four, three, two one. Okay. You’re done. Keep spinning a sec. We’ll let the resistance wear off. Just keep spinning. Keep spinning. (soft gentle music) Okay, so in brief, Donny’s done his test today and we’ve all kind of calmed down now. And we’ve managed to look through the results. And this is basically the test we’ve done. So, this is the climb going up.
And this is his power. So we started off at 160 watts, so super steady. And as we’ve increased, we’ve added 20 watts per minute and he peaked at 340. So that’s the size of his energy, okay. What’s going on further down. There’s a couple of key points. 220 watts. That’s at aerobic base point, so AB, and that’s where he’s going from nice and chill to just starting to put his foot on the gas. We talk about kind of getting up the forest road backpack. That’s the one we need to try to raise up a little bit. Next, when we get to anaerobic threshold. That’s that really hard climb where you start to get the tingling legs and lactate building up. Once you go past that point, you’re blagging it and you can’t do it for too long. So what we need to do is when he’s doing his training or an EWS event, trying to cruise between here, roughly.
And then trying to not go exceed, other than the race sections, this point here. So, this is where you’re gonna try and ride between. So you’re going as fast as you can but you can keep that going all day. The key we’re going to try and do with training over the next months is try and get this to rise. So he does another test. He comes back. Smashes it. Maybe 370 watts, for example. What we need to do is not just get these to go up, but trying to get them to go along. So he can do work and still cruise without going into the red.
You get a higher power for a longer during the day. That’s what we’re going to try to achieve. – Neil It’s been a couple of days now since I went that day with Oli and I feel really good. Super motivating. I always think I wish I’d done more of that when I was racing as a pro. Getting tested and actually getting some training plans. He’s got a really good setup there. I actually saw Laurie Green in the downstairs working out in the gym. So there’s a lot of really top pro rides that actually use this type of training to get ready for their seasons. So, looking at the results. So, my VO2 max, which is just a good sort of indicator of my overall fitness, that’s now 54. Compare that to my VO2 max three years ago when I was still racing pro.
That was 69. So I’ve dropped quite a lot. I don’t think it’s unexpected. For instance, I know that I’ve not been training anything like I used to. It’s a bit more haphazard now when I do it. I try and ride at least a couple of hours a week. It’s definitely harder now. I don’t ride, definitely, as much as I used to. I know it looks like I still ride a lot, but I’ve got family commitments. Obviously, doing this job takes up a lot of my time. So now I do need to find the time to train for Finale. Going to the other results, my threshold is now. My threshold power, I should say, is now 270 watts. Again, that used to be 310 watts when I was a pro. I last got tested four years ago for that one. So, it’s dropped quite considerably, but Oli’s given me a good idea of the sort of training I need to do. So, a lot of training in the low zones. So, like Oli said, I need to work on that. Burning fat. So I can do that for longer. So I don’t get super tired and burn all my carbs when it comes to the EWS Finale.
So I need to do lots of training in the lower zone and training to get my threshold up, as well. So, zones two and zones four. So Oli’s gonna give me a training plan so I can work on that and hopefuly get round Finale. As to what else I need to work on, I think really it’s a case of skills, as well. I don’t ride as much as I used to. So, I need to get on my road bike. Do those lower trainings (mumbles). I need to spend a good amount of time on a mountain bike to make sure I can ride those stages and be as fast as possible.
So at the moment my training really, like I said, it’s haphazard. It sort of consists of an hour or two on the turbo trainer on (mumbles) in a week. I try to ride cross-country the weekends. When I work with Oli I’m going to set the bar a little bit higher. I’m going to try to do three hour sessions in a week around work. So I’m going to try to do a fasted ride one morning and then a couple of turbo sessions and then I need a three-hour ride a weekend either on a road bike on on a cross-country bike. (mumbles) and there’s two things. So my aerobic base so I can burn fat for longer and then really work on my threshold power.
Like Oli said, at the moment if I tried to ride those stages or even the liaisons, I’m gonna get above that aerobic zone and I’m gonna start burning my carbs too quick and I’m never gonna last a day. So I know I’ve got a couple of big days coming in Finale. I’ve got time to prepare. So, let’s get to it. There’ll be more videos following up on this one soon. I’ve got like a training program coming from Oli.
I’ll let you know how I get on. I’ve got some power meters and software, like training peaks. I’ll show you how I’m going to try to achieve those training goals. I’ve also got a really cool bike coming for the race in Finale. So I’ll let you know when I can about that. So keep your eyes peeled on Channel. And if you want to se an old video I did on a bike training for Enduro when I was fit, tick up there. Give thumbs up if you like this style of bloggy video following me trying to race the EWS. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button. .
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Cardio for Weightlifters – Fat Loss without Strength Interference
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We’re going to talk about cardio for fat loss yes it’s a rather long and technical video but as always I promise it’s worth your time first of all we’ll discuss if it’s actually necessary to do cardio to get shredded next we’ll see the pros and cons of each type of cardio and finally I’ll help you decide if you need to do cardio and what form you should choose oh and something important before we get started please note that these recommendations are for people that are physique oriented meaning they train only to look good if you’re interested also in a conditioning or sport performance then probably you need to do cardio and this video doesn’t apply to you cool all right let me start it so first of all let’s ask the question is god young necessary for you to get shredded from my experience working with clients and with friends and with myself 90% of people do not need Carter to get shredded they can get to 6 7 percent body fat through dieting alone now here’s the thing even if you don’t need cardio you could probably benefit from it it could help I’ll talk about the benefits of calculator in this video but for now let’s stick to the if cardio is necessary but my opinion is that over the years cardio became synonymous with fat loss because people thought that sweat was an indicator of fat loss dunno those means floating around online sweat is fat crying oh my god that’s so wrong but I’ll give marketers that it’s very easy to convince someone that the losing fat when the lot of bread and drenched in sweat that’s how I think intense cardio workouts became fat burning workouts but you you are an well-educated person you know that cardio in a No itself doesn’t burn fat fat loss review all comes down to being in a calorie deficit so yes if you can create a calorie deficit to cardio sure it leads to fat loss but if you eat enough calories to compensate what you burn to exercise then you won’t be losing fat in fact if you ate more calories than you burn so you are in a surplus you could actually be gaining fat doing all those extreme cardio workouts that is the truth of energy balance I’m sure you’ll notice this yourself you know all those fat people at the gym that are on the treadmill for years basically and they’re losing fat well there you go they probably eat too much so for now we concluded that cardio leads to fat loss through the energy deficit it creates if it creates one so it is not necessary for you to get shredded you can create all the deficit you need to your diet now with that said I think most people would benefit from combining calorie restriction meaning dieting with a bit of cardio there are some benefits there let me share what OSA the way I see it cardio for us has two benefits number one it burn some calories so it allows us to eat more food and number two it can help with stubborn body fat mobilization now I know there are a lot of other benefits to cardio and they may be useful but for our purposes meaning getting a whole new type is it a modern type physique I believe that these two are the only ones we should really care about so let’s talk about them in more detail so benefit number one card you’re burning some calories and it allows you to eat more food all right as I said in the beginning I assume that conditioning is not very important for you you are probably just training to look good to get the six-pack and have well-developed muscles and look awesome well in that case cardio for you is really just a tool for you to burn more calories it doesn’t directly help you to get that type of physique cardio of course is most beneficial when you’re cutting because let’s say that you need a seven hundred calorie deficit for you to lose fat well you could be reducing your calorie intake only by five hundred calories and burn the rest of 200 to exercise I personally used to neglect this fat loss advantage in the past and I remember that on my last cut which was right before Christmas I didn’t do any cardio nothing I just ate very little and that was that did I get lean sure I did of course but I had to eat very little I remember that my daily intake was around 7 17 1800 calories so not that much and my diet was okay because I was still doing intermittent fasting I was making the right food choices but I wouldn’t have called it enjoyable now on this last cut the diamond right now well things have been different I did reduce my calorie intake under 2,000 because I was doing some sort of walking or activity every day to burn some energy and I estimate I burn maybe 200 calories more than I usually did with my normal activity level and those 200 calories made a massive difference because I could eat 200 grams of potatoes extra every day or maybe an extra ice cream and it sounds very very little but those little bits of food make a massive difference when you’re on a calorie restricted diet and that’s something I learned to respect so the main advantage of doing cardio if you’re a physique oriented trainee is that you get to eat more food regardless if you’re cutting maintaining or bulking that’s the main advantage now let’s move on and talk about the other benefit of doing cardio which is stubborn body fat mobilization when a person which is a very low body fat maybe under 10% nine percent maybe even eight percent the body has only stubborn body fat stores left for men stubborn body fat is usually located around the midsection in your lower abs your lower back goods and of course it also depends on your genetics now what do I mean by stubborn body fat how is it different well this type of fat is slightly different because it is less sensitive to the chemicals such as adrenaline or growth hormone that signal the need to release fatty acids from the fat cells fat loss has two steps first of all the fatty acids must be released from the fat cells then they need to get into the bloodstream circulate through the body and get burned well there is a consumer well the muscle or an organ needs it so it so that fatty acid is actually burned locally well those stubborn body fat stores don’t want to release those fatty acids and when that happens the risk of muscle loss during a cut is increased because if there are no fatty acids in the bloodstream the body we’ll have to burn something else and that can also be muscle tissue now before you freak out about this let me say a few more things for most people getting free fatty acids into the bloodstream is not a problem at all not a problem at all probably you are at a high enough body fat percentage to have plenty of free fatty acids in your bloodstream at any time I talked about this in other videos and I’m going to say to get here people very often underestimate how much body fat they have I often get emails from guys looking like this that tell me oh man I really hate this this last bit of fat on my lower abs oh man I hate stubborn body fat yeah you’d probably around 15 percent body fat actually and no that’s not stubborn body fat so before you even think about stubborn body fat make sure that you are actually very lean now how does card your help with stubborn body fat mobilization well it improves blood circulation to those areas and it helps transport to the fatty acids to the bloodstream to a place where they will be burned that’s why when you are very very lean doing some cardio is probably a good idea now please note that I said it’s probably a good idea I didn’t say that it’s necessary the truth is if you maintain a calorie deficit long enough you will eventually burn all body fat everything including stubborn body fat but the main point to remember is that cardio can be a valid tool for fat loss in certain situations so you probably should do some now the question is how much should you do some people say well if some cardio is good then doing a lot of cardio must be amazing as always too much of a good thing is actually bad so let’s next talk about how much cardio should you do and why too much is bad here’s my best recommendation for cardio when you create a calorie deficit create 80% of it to your diet and only 20% through exercise to cardio for example if your calorie deficit needs to be 700 calories then eat 500 calorie less and you could do maybe researchers three sessions three sessions of cardio a week that burn about 400 calories and if you do the weekly average you will see that the daily deficit comes out to about 700 calories now some of you might be asking why why shouldn’t I do 50% of my deficit to guard you why shouldn’t I lose fat only through cardio well if you are overweight and you only want to lose some weight then sure do all the cardio you want but you you want the model type physique that means you are also interested in muscle mass and in getting stronger at the gym and here’s the thing cardio has any type of exercise causes muscle damage which needs recovery and remember if you’re in a calorie deficit your recovery capacity is also reduced a calorie deficit is also a recovery deficit so it makes sense to save most of your recovery capacity for lifting not for cardio I really like how very cams puts it remember that you are a weight lifter first muscle and strength take priority secondly large amounts of cardio can interfere with your weight lifting progress if you try to progressively overload both cardio and strength-training it’s very hard to make progress in either one because your body is is getting mixed stimuli your ass can get go down to both endurance and strength explosiveness and this is something it cannot do optimally the number of studies have shown that a lot of cardio aerobic exercise can interfere with muscle and strength gains in athletes who are weight training they found that the more cardio you do and the more intensities the more it can interfere with muscle and strength researchers call this the interference effect now again before you freak out about this interference effect don’t worry it’s not like you’re going to lose your gains if you go for a run we’ll talk more about this later in the video what you need to remember for now is that if your goal is to get muscular and strong then a lot of cardio doesn’t help it may actually make things harder now before we move on to talk about what types of cardio you should do remember the rule of thumb create 80% of your deficit through dieting and only 20% to cardio this video is really getting long so let’s do a quick recap in the first part of this video we concluded that physique oriented trainees should do cardio for two reasons number one to burn some calories so they could eat more food and number two to mobilize fatty acids that means cardio is really not a priority and you should do a form of cardio that doesn’t interfere with your lifting in any way which is the priority and those types of cardio and steady-state low intensity and high intensity interval training I’ll explain why in a minute the form of cardio that you should do only sparingly is moderate intensity steady-state cardio such as running long distances cycling on a moderate intensity for a long time rowing for a long time so any type of activity that has your heart rate elevated to a moderate level for a long period of time the reason this type of cardio shouldn’t be done frequently is because it can interfere with your strength training program we talked about the interference effect earlier in this video what you need to remember is that high level aerobic fitness and elite strength and power are opposite updations if you try to collectively overload both you try to become better at both at the same time you will probably only become mediocre in both of them it’s funny because when I first shared this information with my opinion audience a lot of them freaked out oh my god I will never go for a run in my life again whoa no no I’m sorry if I made you believe that it’s not that drastic it’s it’s a matter of context this interference effect only the beasts if you try to professionally overload both cardio and strength-training at the same time for example if everyday you are trying to run faster run longer because last time so you’re trying to progressively overload your running and you also want to get stronger at the gym well in that case yes the interference effect will appear but two hours of jogging every week in the park that will have no effect on your strength performance so you can certainly do miss moderate intensity steady-state cardio but the key is not to do it very frequently not to do it every day and not to overload it not to try to get better at it that way you will not be signaling that the improvements in endurance are demanded and he will just maintain your cardiovascular fitness and that will have no effect on your strength training program you will just be burning some calories now let’s talk about high-intensity interval training this is the type of cardio that is actually very similar to weightlifting and actually know how it is you do short bursts of high effort followed by a longer period of time where you rest or you do some kind of light activity intervals have become very popular lately because some people say that they burn more fat than other types of cardio which i think is not true yes some studies show that during exercise they may be burning more fat than maybe steady-state cardio but the mean it leads to more fat loss over time you see if you burn more fat during exercise you will just burn more carbohydrate for the rest for the rest of the day the body is actually very good at preserving fuel and fat loss usually only comes down to the calorie deficit it doesn’t matter what kind of fuel you burn during each period of the day with that said I do believe that high-intensity interval training is very good for conditioning and it is also very time efficient it burns a lot of calories per minute in a short period of time here is how we could perform high des interval training at the gym on the recumbent bike now of course you could use any type of cardio machine a treadmill a bike and elliptical rowing machine etc etc basically all all kinds of intervals are good you could do this routine two or three times a week but don’t try to do more than that don’t try to do intervals every day even high-level athletes such as elite cyclists only do intervals two or three times a week you are not at the level you do not need to do more than them besides intervals are hard and if you train legs at the gym too well if you do one or two leg workouts per week and you do three or four high paced interval training sessions then your legs are getting hit hard almost every day so you don’t want that alternatively you could play sports two or three times a week because almost all sports are a form of high intensity interval training if you think about soccer for instance there are short sprints when you chase the ball and longer periods when you just walk and you know you catch your breath the same goes for basketball the same goes for volley so pretty much all sports you can do that instead of going to the gym but again it’s important not to overdo it don’t do more than one or two hours of high test interval per week now let’s talk about low intensities that is state cardio this list could be anything anything from walking to cycling to rowing to lifting light weights any type of activity that is very easy to do and you can do it for a long period of time without getting tired while is isn’t that great for conditioning it has its virtues it doesn’t effect recovery in any way which means you can do it every day and it also burns a significant amount of calories for example you can walk every day for one hour and it will not affect your strength training program in any way and that’s why is my favorite form of cardio and in fact I don’t even call it cardio I just call it burning calories another thing I like about this is that you can perform it anywhere you don’t need to go to the gym you don’t need special equipment you don’t need to change you can just walk and burn some calories and that’s why it is my favorite type and that’s why it’s the one I recommend most but now let me show you how you could structure a cardio routine and because I want to make things more clear so let’s do that now okay I know this video is getting ridiculously long but stay with me so yeah in my opinion I think the best way to do cardio is to combine both high-intensity interval training and low intensity steady-state cardio I think this is the best way to do it also I know that most of you are lifestyle oriented you don’t want to go to the gym everyday you want you have your own schedule and you want to have as much free time as possible while having an awesome physique well if that’s the case here’s what you could do during the warm months of the year you could be doing what is called informal cardio meaning any type of activity that burns calories but doesn’t require doesn’t require special equipment you don’t need to go to the gym you don’t need to change in special clothes you just do something that burns calories and that can be considered cardio this could be anything from walking hiking going to the pool playing volley on the beach walking your dog any type of activity that habit has you moving your body and is burning calories and I’ll be honest I don’t do any formal cardio I just walk and I just do all the types of activities that burn calories that’s it so do these two during the summer months during the spring months during the autumn months just walk more walk more and you will burn some calories now during wintertime walking is not that enjoyable in that case you can just go to the gym and do some high-intensity interval training sessions maybe two or three times a week or you could do high-intensity interval training two times a week after and workout so you don’t have to go to the gym on a rest day any machine at the gym works remember that you just have to push yourself on those intervals that’s the only way we’re going to make them effective so that’s it guys.
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This 4-Minute Workout Is All You Need To Get Fit
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According to science, if you work out really hard for just a short period of time, that’s just as good as kinda working out for a long period of time. If you’ve got five minutes here are five full-body exercises that we’re going to do on the street. Let’s try it out. Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? – I definitely want to work out. – Eat healthier, work out more. – Eat healthy? Work out more? – Party harder. – Party harder? All right. Four minutes on the clock.
Are you ready? – Yeah! – Yeah! Three, two, one. OK, we’re going to start with ten push-ups. Super easy, make two little V’s, and go all the way down, come back up, count them off. One! Two! – Three. – Four! Remember if you don’t have great upper body strength, you can do push-ups from your knees. That’s cool too. It just lowers the weight. Nine and ten. OK, now we’re going to keep that heart rate up. You’re going to finish out that first minute with jumping jacks. Keep that heart rate up, keep that body moving. – How do you feel right now? – Exhausted. – Tired already. – I failed my P.E. test. – I’m usually the type of guy to go for half-hour jogs with my wife. Now, I read about high-intensity interval training and I figured I’d make a video about it.
OK. Nope, fifteen more seconds of jumping jacks. Did you come dressed appropriately to work out? – You know, my ripped jeans are faring pretty well, actually. – You feel that? You feel the energy? You guys feeling it? – Yes. One minute down. Let’s do this! Up next, spider lunges. The way these work is you’re going to start in a plank position, then just like a spider, put one leg up, then jump back, then you gotta switch. Left leg! Right leg! All right? We’re going to do ten of those.
One, two… I’m a spider. Yeah, that’s it. Get those legs all the way up. Five, six. This works out your shoulders ’cause you gotta keep your arms steady, and it works out your whole lower body. – Oh my God. – Nine, ten. OK. Guess what? More jumping jacks. – OK. – Keep that heart rate up. Fitness, fitness, fitness. Wait, that’s Jingle Bell Rock. So whenever you’re not moving, whenever you’re not counting to ten, you’re going to round it out with some jumping jacks. – I’m regretting this.
– You got some sweat stains right there. – Do I? Oh, I was my shirt. – You ladies are working hard. I’m the instructor, though, so I get to sit down. These people were on the way to see a movie. Now they’re working out on the street. And, two minutes! Two minutes is up. Now it’s time for the third exercise. Next is ten jumping lunges. You’re going to do a standard lunge, dipping your knee down.
Don’t let your knee go in front of your toe, and then, boom! jump up, switch legs. Ten of those. Ready? One! Two! Three, four. Keep up now, five. – Oh, geez. – Eight, nine, ten. OK. And jumping jacks. – OK. – We got thirty more seconds. OK. You’ve only been working out for two minutes! Two minutes! Can you believe that? I’ve stayed on the toilet for longer than two minutes. – Once you start doing push-ups, I was like, “Oh no, I don’t think I can do this ” but then, I got into it and now I’m on a body high, I guess. – Oh my God. – Well, do you think you would do this at home? – Yeah, definitely. This is a lot of fun. It was quick, short, but really high intensity. It gave you what you needed, a good boost. – Three minutes up! Time to move on to the last exercise. All right, you start up, you go down, then you walk your hands out all the way to a plank position, then walk yourself back up. One! All right, that’s just one. OK. Ten more. Getting a little tired. Use your arms, your legs, your core muscles.
Dig deep, dig deep. Four minutes is almost up. Seven. Three more. You guys are slowing down on me. You got this. How do you feel? – Exhausted. – Clearly out of shape. – It could be worse. – I feel healthier already. Time to start doing this more. – You don’t have to go to the gym to do this, you can do this literally on the street. You got this…and ten! Street Workout! (all cheering) That took four minutes. Now for a twenty-minute workout, you do that five more times. Nothing should hold you back. If you want to be healthy, you can do it.
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6 NEW GYM HACKS YOU HAVE TO KNOW! Part 2 – Tips for better workouts
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Today I am sharing with you my favorite gym hacks that I do in the gym to make it easier we did one of these videos before and you really liked it so I was thinking let’s do another one let’s get to the gym and right two weeks my first tip is to have ice cubes in your shaker because we all know how good it is to have your BCA ice-cold number two is use your straps as a handle while doing front squats I know that so many are struggling with the pain that you can feel in your hand wrists while doing front squats so by using the strap like this you can do your front squats and have your barbell steady on your shoulders and don’t feel any pain in your hand wrists good next tip is actually a little bit funny because this is a personal thing that I have been doing for a while this is how I tie my shoelaces I hate when the shoelaces are too long and it just gets all over so if they are too long I always tie them like this around my ankle and then just a little fun in the front next tip is a tip that every guy or girl who loves to lift heavy should know because when you have loaded the barbell up with so much weight and then when you want to take them off it’s kind of hard so this is a little tip to make it so much easier we’re gonna use this small weight plates two and a half kilos in this case for me and putting it on the floor and then rolling up the weights on it and then you can just get the weights off so easy next tip is to use two barbells as a dip station by using two barbells in the squat rack like this you can use it as a dip station next tip is a really good one and it is so simple to avoid smelly shoes use tea bags so I’m putting two of them in each shoe and then just grab them and put them in my gym bag.
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6 NEW GYM HACKS YOU HAVE TO KNOW! Part 2 – Tips for better workouts
theguy 0 Comments Get fit
Today I am sharing with you my favorite gym hacks that I do in the gym to make it easier we did one of these videos before and you really liked it so I was thinking let’s do another one let’s get to the gym and right two weeks my first tip is to have ice cubes in your shaker because we all know how good it is to have your BCA ice-cold number two is use your straps as a handle while doing front squats I know that so many are struggling with the pain that you can feel in your hand wrists while doing front squats so by using the strap like this you can do your front squats and have your barbell steady on your shoulders and don’t feel any pain in your hand wrists good next tip is actually a little bit funny because this is a personal thing that I have been doing for a while this is how I tie my shoelaces I hate when the shoelaces are too long and it just gets all over so if they are too long I always tie them like this around my ankle and then just a little fun in the front next tip is a tip that every guy or girl who loves to lift heavy should know because when you have loaded the barbell up with so much weight and then when you want to take them off it’s kind of hard so this is a little tip to make it so much easier we’re gonna use this small weight plates two and a half kilos in this case for me and putting it on the floor and then rolling up the weights on it and then you can just get the weights off so easy next tip is to use two barbells as a dip station by using two barbells in the squat rack like this you can use it as a dip station next tip is a really good one and it is so simple to avoid smelly shoes use tea bags so I’m putting two of them in each shoe and then just grab them and put them in my gym bag.
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