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I'm relatively new to the forum so a little intro to begin with. I raced mostly mountain bikes for about 4 years, pro the last year and a half. Racing was really easy for me, I loved to ride and training was really enjoyable. I had knee surgery and did a lot of PT afterwards and the pain has just never gone away. It now bothers me daily but I've been told several times by specialists that there is nothing else they can do...it will always bother me. So, I quit racing and running, and just ride for fun now, do a lot of skate skiing, nordic skiing, swimming, and lifting. I've never been overweight and I'm not looking to lose or gain weight, just maintain. My problem? I'm addicted to cardio. ADDICTED. I think a journal will be a good way to keep tabs on myself.

Sunday:
Rode 8 miles to and from the pool (temp 36, road a bit wet)
deep water running for 30 minutes at "cadence" 80/min (had to use indoor pool and was hot)
Swim set: 500 meters steady pace
10X50 on 1:05
500 meters steady pace
200 meters cool down
For the main set of 10X50 I felt good, had to cut my swim short because I had to pee so bad!
 
Lunchtime swim workout

warmup:
200m easy pace backstroke
200m easy pace freestyle

core set:
4 x 200m Freestyle Swim, leave on 04:20 / 200m
Freestyle swim, starting every 200m set on 4:40 The departure time combines swimming target time and rest time, so the faster I go the more rest I have. Conversely, the slower I swim, the less rest time I will have.

3 x 200m Freestyle Swim, leave on 04:10 / 200m
same as above
2 x 200m Freestyle Swim, leave on 04:05 / 200m
same as above

The pool was setup for full Olympic 50m course and I felt kind of like I struggled a bit. It's tough changing back and forth and sometimes swimming in a 25m pool and sometimes 50m.

Weights after work will be arms and core but I'll update that separately tomorrow probably.
 
Wish you the best of luck with your journal!

Addicted to cardio??? :eek:

I am the opposite of you, I HATE cardio. I do it consistantly (because its primarily a mental dislike), and ROCK WITH IT, but I dont like it, and win ALL BATTLES.

Good luck young man!

Hook up with FF's Journal, he rides bikes and is our ultimate Iron Man on the forum!

He could motivate you.......oh.....just a tad.....if you sweat daily, he, he.

Here is the link: Performance Not Enough


I wish you the best in life and within fitness

Chillen
 
matt182 said:
What did you do to your knee?
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Well, it's just years of abuse from playiing competitve volleyball in high school and college, beach volleyball, racing and riding bikes so much, running competitively...plus I have chondromalacia or softening of the cartilage. They cleaned it all out and fixed the medial collateral meniscus but I still have pain at the bottom of my kneecap and very top. It's a bummer.
 
OK, so I was going to go to the gym for weights last night, but ended up doing another cardio session with my ab workout instead.

50 min tempo ride with my heart rate 145-160 (max is 184). I don't have a power meter, though I wish desparately that I did.

100 bicycle ab exercies
100 exercise ball crunches
50 reverse crunch

2 sets of the planks described

My shoulders are tired from my lunch swim yesterday so I'll take a day off from swimming.
 
The first part of my swim today was utterly irritating. The lanes are designated "slow", "medium", or "fast" for a reason. The lane I picked to share was with some lady that was clearly not in the proper lane. During just my basic warm up of 500m I passed her about 6 times. I was doing around 1:00 50's in the medium lane. Twice I almost ran head on into her because she wasn't keeping to her side of the lane and the lifeguard even came over to scold her for poor lane sharing! I moved to another lane and continued:

after the 500m warm up freestyle I did
2x50 with pull bouy
2X200m on 4:10 breathing 3,5,7 strokes
2x200m on 4:05 breathing 3,5,7 strokes
5X50m on 1:05
500m steady pace
100m cool down.
 
After work routine:

20 minutes on the row machine at around 150 watts constant. I was feeling pretty tired at just that level so I called it off after the 20 minutes and hit the weights.

3x20 hamstring curls @80lbs
3X20 cable hip abductor @35lbs
3x20 cable hip flexor @35lbs
3x20 leg press @

I sure wish I could do squats but I can't even do a lunge without weight or my knee crackles and pops and has fits!
 
By noon it had warmed up to 62 degrees so I went for a road bike ride. My entire loop took an hour and 20 minutes and I had a blast enjoying the great spring weather.

After work I swam for 45 minutes and then did more ab work:

100 bicycle crunches
50 leg raises
2x3 min planks
20 right side crunches
20 left side crunches

Tomorrow is my much needed day off and hopefully I'll skate ski Saturday:jump1:
 
It was sunny out so I went mountain biking - about 1 hour 30 minutes of cardio at HR 140-155 with a couple short bursts above that in some of the technical climb sections.
 
Yesterday I went mountain biking so today I figured I'd go road riding. I waited until 1pm when it had warmed up to around 40 degrees and I bundled up and headed out. Some of the bike lanes in town are still covered with cinder from snow melt so I rode my cyclocross bike to have the extra tire width and traction. Also, I knew I was going to be going out east on a road that turns to gravel for the last few miles. I felt really good and warmed up quickly. I was able to clock almost 35 miles in 2 hours which isn't bad for only riding about 5 times since winter started back in November.
 
Back to the pool for my afternoon workout.

Deep water running at cadence 80/min for 25 minutes
Swam 1 mile of straight laps

Everyone around me is sick and I fear I'll be next.
 
g8r80 said:
Nice to see you started a journal. Mile swim - wow!
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Thanks, yah, the swimming has progressed nicely. Funny because I only started it as a way to do cardio when my knee was hurt but I stuck with it and have gotten faster and can swim longer. Progress is good!:D

My husband is sick so I had to get out of the house last night. I went to the gym of course!

Row machine at steady 140+ strokes per minute for 20 minutes.
100 bicycle crunches
50 trunk rotations while standing on those squishy disk thingies holding 10lb ball
2X25 Exercise Ball Abdominal pull ins
3X25 leg press @110
3x25 Hamstring curl @90
 
Lunchtime workout: 2400m swim (almost 1.5 miles)

500m freestyle swim warmup
2x100 kicking with fins
10x100 freestyle on 2:05
2x100m kicking with fins
500m freestyle

Tonight is most likely bike riding night.

Totally separate note: I'd like to learn to ride a unicycle.
 
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Pool workout at lunch: 2400meters

500m warmup freestyle
2x100m at 2:05
10x50m at 1:05
2x100m sidekicking
800m 75% max swim
2x100 kicking
 
Last night I rode again

58 minutes (then it got dark) - definitely went hard as I couldn't talk through most of it.

I continue to try to stay healthy amidst a town of sick people!
 
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