For a few winters in the past, I used to do concurrent training. I would hit the weights, 3 sets of 15 full body, then jump into a spin class. Not to interfere with the instructors teachings, I would take a bike in the back and pretty much do my own thing. My own thing involved mostly endurance effort with a few threshold efforts for 5 min. Now I’m researching this method and find out that this is the pattern to choose, weights then transfer the muscle memory over to the bike. The key is only do this 2x a week and immediately start a carb drink before the endurance ride.
It’s that time of the year, for the wheat research team at UNL, to go out and plant the winter wheat. I’ve been driving the tractor the last two days back and forth all day. Another guy feeds the planter so he’s behind me on the planter. About every 50 feet or so he yells ” hold it”. I then have to immediately stop the tractor so he can change trays. Wow! does this get obnoxious. Every once in a while, because the tractor is so noisy, I think I hear him yell ” hold it”. So I slam in the clutch to stop the tractor. If I hear a “shit” coming from behind me it means I was wrong in thinking that I heard him yell ” hold it”. He’s standing, on the planter, so he’s not expecting my sudden stop. Bam! he nails where the seed drops down below. I end up turning around and saying ” shit, I thought I heard you say ” hold it”. Oh well, no harm done.
Now to Wednesday’s workout. Knowing that I wouldn’t be able to do my lunch time gym routine, I’ve put in a request for a gym out at the farm, I came into campus early to get the workout done. There’s a lot more people at 6:30am. A running class the way it looks. Here is the workout. I’m really maxed out on these weights that I’m doing this week. It’s going to take awhile to overcome these weights. There’s lots of strain and grunting going on.
The evening workout on the bike called for some 3 min efforts at VO2. I was going to do these yesterday but my bike was having some issue after being hit by the car. They went good considering all that happened during the day. You would think driving a tractor isn’t physical. It is because there is a lot of jostling and fighting the steering wheel to keep it straight. Also, being out in the sun all day and not having enough to drink might be factors to why I felt like just taking a nap when I got home. Took the bike up to JoyRide Bicycles instead to have them check it out to make sure everything was Ok from when the car collided with me.
Another good workout in the books. Staying consistent.
Weight training reduces blood pressure while aerobic training has more of an effect on cardiovascular health is the take home message. Weight lifting may not be a specific adaption but there is an underlying effect to performance.
Tired of overcrowded and under-equipped facilities. You know those long lines that can happen at the gym to use the weight equipment? This study shows that you don’t need equipment to get in a good resistance workout. You just need a training partner
The 14 week study shows that in 84 healthy college students were given 6 exercises and performed 8 to 12-rep sets 2 to 4 times. After 14 weeks of training with weights or manual resistance both groups showed no significant difference. Both groups did increase their overall strength over baseline.
Manual resistance is an alternative to the more conventional forms of resistance training programs. The muscular system doesn’t know the difference between manual and weight assisted exercise. Manual resistance is a style of strength training that can be incorporated into your regular workouts or in a situation where no equipment and/or facilities are available.
