No chop on the shoulder mate, hope it heels fast and you get to try out those new bars soon.awesome plan bloke. I am currently sidelined with a fractured shoulder but am hoping to get back to riding (at least a stationary bike in a gym) in a couple of weeks along with starting range of motion exercises.
Am interested to see hear if you like the myfitnesspal app and if you think it helps.
Have you picked out your new bike to work towards? I shouted myself some new bars for completing the rapha rising challenge. looking forward to trying them.
oh, yeah - who's chocolate milk do you favour?
Quite like my fitness pal as a food diary but the exercise measurement is woeful.I am being overly honest with it making sure that I under value my exercise and over value my food (when I need to guesstimate a bit)
very easy to use and is quite efficent for recording food and exercise.
Essentially there is a fairly linear relationship between HR and calorie expenditure, as your HR increases your energy output increase. From memory the reliability is somewhere around 0.83 which is very good for such a simple non invasive measurement tool.MWI - not wanting to take up your time but can give a quickie on how heart rate helps calculate energy expediture? Does it help work out and efficiency of the body for the work done in the exercise? Will probably go over my head but i'd appreciate it if you coudl give it a go.:thumb:
I've found strava actually does a good job of estimating energy without a HRM. It seems to know when I am going downhill and accounts for this. Pretty much the times I have gone downhill coasting, it has showed zero wattage.In cycling consider the difference measuring HR makes, you ride to the top of a mountain and coast for 15-20 minutes back down, HR will be low demonstrating quite low energy putput as your not pedalling, but myfitnesspal with only consider speed and distance traveled, it doesn't know your not pedaling, hence it generally over represents exercise energy expenditure.
Yeah Strava is not to bad, as the calculation for watts seems pretty good but ultimately if your not plugging your HR into the calculation you're only going to get a estimate, sometimes close, sometimes widely inaccurate. I'm happy to use strava's results for personal use, would not waste my time if I was training elite/sub elite athletes - unless HR and cadence were also being recorded.I've found strava actually does a good job of estimating energy without a HRM. It seems to know when I am going downhill and accounts for this. Pretty much the times I have gone downhill coasting, it has showed zero wattage.
If you want to get fit, but don't want excessive maintenance. Get a single speed and crunch some fire trails haha!
Hi Joel, determine your own max heart rate - a good way is to find a hill that is steep and that you rarely if ever can climb without stopping- when you feel that imminent need to vomit and are so out of breath that you are quite happy to fall off your bike sideways rather than ride any further - you are at YOUR maximum heart rate.Any tips for the heart rate zone you should aim for if looking at weight loss? I'm using strava default which seems based on age and suggested Max hr. But most my rides I seem to be around the z4 as tend to try and push myself a bit. Though not sure if more benefit trying to stay in the z2 or 3 for weight loss?
If you are riding back you you should not be cold at least not in the legs, if you find you're getting cold, find a way to stay warm or warm up a little prior to your timed downhill run. I was aware enduro was more a down/up/down format without much stopping. what is the stop time between efforts? It takes quite a while to cool right down, up to 1hour to remove lactate from the muscles(providing no cool down)woah, loads to consider here, and thanks everyone for sharing
Something maybe I've missed in here is general flexibility. My main fitness issue with gravity enduro is the sprint/stop/sprint/stop format.. essentially starting cold, then going for it at close to 100% for five to ten minutes, then stopping, riding back up, probably getting cold, then going hard again. This really fucks with my legs and lungs, and is pretty different from anything I've 'trained' for ever.
So, general bike fitness is awesome - and like others I'd highly recommend a lot of torso upwards strength exercises to complement leg work. But flexibility is also key. I use yoga, although I'm a terrible student! It helps give my muscles the ability to push hard in a hurry, then relax and recover relatively quickly. I also find focussing on breathing very helpful when things get lactic in a hurry... you'll hear me choofing like a steam train down the track!
Maybe not exactly what you're after, Slowmick, but a path to consider - since like everything, more benefits come with more practice.
Happy better riding