Today's Workout Thread

[Firefighter2]

-Chin-ups
-Military Press
-Dumbell Curls
-Squats
-Leg Press
-20 minutes on rower

[1OldGI]

Went to the Beach and Rolled Me a Fatty
Finally got the fat bike into it's proper operating environment. 20+ mile ride on the beach. Believe it or not, this bike does far better on the beach than on the pavement. Even on the really soft sugar sand far above the tide line, it plowed through effortlessly and was just an absolute blast. I pretty much smiled through the entire ride. This may have been the most fun I've ever had fully clothed. I'd considered a ride in the woods tomorrow but may just go back for some more cruising on the beach. I'm totally impressed with the bike's performance in sand. It's better than I expected and riding on the beach is so totally relaxing and totally Zen, I can see myself doing this most weekends.

[Thug]

A 55km ride this morning.

Legs are now really really tired.

[1OldGI]

Just over 10 miles on the fat bike today (had to get home for the football games). Once again the bike was amazing. I put it on the beach at Sand Key Park and rode south to Indian Rocks Beach and back.
Throngs of spectators were on hand to cheer me on as I rode by


The beach didn't have many people on it and the weather was near perfect. These beach rides are so cool and so relaxing. All in all another great day at the beach for me and the fatty


It won't take many more weekends like this to turn me into a full on fat bike hippy
PS: Yeah, Yeah, I know, I need a shave. I'm off to take care of that right now.

[Firefighter2]

Sunday's Workout

-Benchpress
-Power Cleans
-Military Press
-Barbell Curls
-T-Bar Rows
-Incline Dumbbell Presses
-Squats

I was still aching a bit from the last workout, as everybody knows how it is to sit down or climb stairs after a lot of compound leg work. Lots of pre-stretching, and once I got started it felt a lot better. Ended up being a great workout....until tomorrow.

[Thisisclog]

Friday evening, SWMBO wasn't feeling well, so i went solo for the mile-a-day, set a couple PRs, 1k in 4:05, 1 mile in 6:56.

Saturday, rest day. Did a slow 1 mile for the day with wife.

Sunday, officially started half marathon training with a 4k, pretty much on pace with my goal pace for the half. Hopefully I can keep it up as the mileage builds. Ran a nice easy mile in the evening with wife.

Monday morning, 8.5km with 4 rounds of body weight exercises to "Roxanne" and "Flower"aka Sally. I think I've explained the principle of these before, but:

(1) 3.5 mins
Sally up= Squat jump
Sally down= squat
2 minute "sprint"
(2) 3.5 mins
Roxanne=plank tuck
Red light= plank jack
2 minute "sprint"
(3) 3.5 mins
Roxanne=squat jump
Red light= squat shuffle
2 minute "sprint"
(4) 3.5 mins
Sally up= pushup
Sally down = drop down from pushup, hover

Will do my mile when I get home tonight.

[Thug]

A very easy 2km in Lunas tonight.

[carlmaloschneider]

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That looks like great fun. Do you deflate the tyres? Does the sand seem to wear the gears at all? One of those in a single speed would be interesting :-)

[carlmaloschneider]

My 'workouts' are pretty consistent these days, just different forms of climbing.

[1OldGI]

That looks like great fun. Do you deflate the tyres? Does the sand seem to wear the gears at all? One of those in a single speed would be interesting :-)

Yes, on the beach I run 10 PSI in the back and 8 PSI up front. There are several single speed fat bikes on the market. I came very close to buying one. Then I decided for my purposes (almost exclusively adverse terrain and off road) that having some gears would be preferred.