Joined a gym...

 



So, since Dec 1 I have been pretty much on my ass, first with hip
problems, now just getting lazy. Last year The Mouse and I both started
the season in terrible condition and took half the season to get our
shit together so yesterday we went and signed up for a local gym.

Now, I know I could do a lot of this at home and believe me, my kids
will tell you they and I have done our fair share of step climber and
aeordyne here over the years but I am looking for more for The Mouse.
Strength will be taken care of pretty much from the amount of riding we
do but she has a slow reaction time and "teenage" co-ordination so I am
really looking for her to take several of the "dance" classes and such,
as well as some good spin for endurance. The spa, pool, and racquetball
will be nice after those long summer days at the track.

Oh well, anybody else here run a regular gym or home workout schedule?
If so, what do you do to Xtrain for MX or Woodscrashin'?

Rowdy Mouse Racing, ohhhhh, ate a bit too much cheese;)

 

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I work in the oil field, and ride in the woods to keep in shape.
(Round is a shape, isn't it?)
If I could ride everyday, conditioning would take care of itself.

Jim
         Wudsracer/Jim Cook
          Smackover Racing
         '06 Gas Gas DE300
        '82 Husqvarna XC250
           Team LAGNAF
        

 



The Swedish husqvarna owners manual used to come with instructions.  Perhaps
it is called circuit training, at any rate you do as many reps in one minute
as you can and rest a minute and then go to the next exercise.  I might be
able to take a picture of the page and post it within a few days.  The gym I
went to had this device you put the weights on and squeezed levers like
handlebar levers, that was pretty close to one of the pictures, the one
where you squeeze your knees together and add the weights which that action
raises and lowers is another.  I think there were seven but can't recall the
others.  The wind up a chord with a weight around a broomstick type is
pretty standard though I am not sure that was in their circuit.  Since I had
a rather large bore bike I found something to approximate kick starting it
as well.  Though I never played football I understand football players do a
lot of stretching to minimize injuries.  You are supposed to stretch before
working out but the gym I went to at the time really didn't have much
provision for that.

Fran

 

says...

Yes, in one corner of the circuit training area there is a stretching
frame in the corner. It mostly consists of bars at different heights and
different angles from horizontal that you would presumably put your leg
on and slide it up the grade to stretch. I thought that was pretty nice.
Better than locker-room benches, door knobs, and counter tops.

Thanks, I will remember to stretch. Genetically, The Mouse and I are
very tight in the hips especially...

Rowdy Mouse Racing

 


The "good girl" machine...