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Drink a few beers a week, eat anything to moderation
You ride to ride better, you don't train to get faster. You train to ride more. Training should allow you to spend more time on the bike perfecting riding skills and allow you recover faster from injury.
Riding more often should make you ride better and should reduce the amount of time you spend on the ground rather than on the bike.
Flexibility is just as important as strength and endurance.
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Never a serious injury in 46-years of riding moto.
It is winter here, but at 63 I still have plans for racing two classes in ’16.
Also go to the gym and do some weights a couple times a week, not heavy.
Helps to have a 59 year old wife that's very fit and loves to do cardio. We motivate each other.
I don't race as much as I'd like to due to my job but ride as often as I can. Still love to ride mx after all these years.
I eat what I want but in moderation. No soda and very little sugar. But I do like/love my Coors Light and craft beer.
Especially after a day of riding. Great way to cap off the day with my riding buddies.
Running works for me but isn't for everyone. I'm a big believer in doing some kind of cardio whether you ride moto or not. There's a bunch of ways to do cardio. Just find one that works for you.
It improves your quality of life as you get older. Plus you'll feel better all the way around.
I really like mountain biking and I'm trying to do more of that for part of my work out. Busted out 2 25 minute motos last night.
I have a rower that has been used maybe 10 times since buying it a couple years ago....so will step that up some.
I like mountain biking and will be doing that again daily.
My 1st think is going to be getting a OK from my DR and a stress test to make sure the heart system is 100%
Stamp it
Looks like the weather will give us a break this weekend and I will go to Woodland Saturday on my way back from Seattle.
Below is my home workout setup.
I use the same equipment too but I have some Bowflex adjustable Dumbells that I use for weights and I use bands on the door. Dropping the weight and cleaning up the diet has made a huge difference in my quality of life. I actually started getting in shape long before I ever thought of getting back into moto. Never drank or smoked, so that was not a problem, it was mostly the pizza, burgers, and ice cream and sedentary lifestyle that did me in. Only now after 5 years of training and MTB that I considered getting back on a bike after 30 years, and even so, it has humbled me and made me think that everything I have been doing.....is still not enough! Moto has gotten a lot more extreme than it was back in the 80's.
My 450 feels like it can yank my arms off at any given moment or toss me into a heaping sack of broken bones...the jumps are seriously big nowadays....
Pit Row
Anyways, going to try my best for 2016 racing until the operation date comes through!, good old NHS, Merry Xmas from the U.K. Dudes & keep up the good work!.
I guess it how you're raised and the culture you live/believe in. I grew up in a very outdoor active area and seems like I've been training for one sport or another for my entire life. I worked as a trainer for both Golds and World gym and was a snow ski coach for 15 years.
I LOVE to train and eat clean (most of the time). The benefits far out weigh (to me) the work/trouble and suffering of that hard work. Racing bicycles (road/CX) off and on through much of my adult life, I thought I was "fit". The doctors thought I was really "fit" but in reality I was fit for racing bicycles, I had very little over-all fitness. I though play riding and an occasional MX race was enough.
Only when I started a much more well rounded approach did I realize just how crappy shape you can be in despite 100 mile/10,000' of climbing training rides! Additionally I found a life time of injuries and poor movement patterns had severely comprised my flexibility and mobility. I felt great in the "box" of my every day movement but couldn't move worth a shit outside that box.
That's all changed now., at almost 59 I've have vastly better mobility and overall functional strength than I've had since my early 40's.
I can't run as fast, jump as high, lift as much and ride as fast as I could when I was much younger but that doesn't mean I don't want to be the best I can today.
Slumped in a chair watching the TV while eating crap, not able to bend over and tie my shoes (or see my dick) because my gut is so big isn't for me. There is still SO much bad information about nutrition/fitness in the main stream it's amazing. I had a PT just last year tell me that "squatting with weight was bad for your knees" and then proceed to tell me you start a squat by "pushing your knees forward!" And the latest from the WHO that meat is like a cigarette....an observational study with no controls. Great info!
Stay fit, eat clean (most of the time) learn to move properly and you won't be "wearing out" like everyone else is. Hint: your feet are suppose to point FORWARD not out to the side like a duck. And people wonder why their knees hurt......
Or not, the choice is yours.
this is what worked for me...I'm 49 and eligible for the 50+ class this year.
5000 meters in about 24 minutes on a rowing machine 3 times a week plus 30 minutes on a low impact elliptical machine 3 times a week. Get your heart rate to around 150 but no more than that.
I've been doing that all year but unfortunately hadn't ridden a bike for 5 months. After 2, get comfortable on the bike, riding practices I went to Southwick a couple weeks ago and did 3 decent 23+ minute practice motos without any arm pump or breathing problems. It really surprised me.
Good luck.
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