you cna always workout other parts of your body.

with my broken toe, i cannot work out my calfs. i cannot kick and i cannot clinch, but im still punching nad working out my legs and upper body.

Pain didn't stop the Vandammage:

Quote from: Monster Dave on March 22, 2011, 07:26:03 PM
That sucks amigo. How soon until you think it'll be able to handle practice again?

I was going light until I tried to counter a take down and fell on my knee, which put me back a few days.  I've been resting up the last few days and attending class, I just sit out during rolling sessions. 

It's tough watching everyone play...

I know what you mean. I hurt my arm a few years back while rock climbing and had to take a full year with no weights or climbing - it was hard at first, but once I refocused on cardio my attention shifted long enough to get me through it.

Quote from: Monster Dave on March 22, 2011, 09:54:37 PM
Pain didn't stop the Vandammage:

no, but Chuck Zito did 

Quote from: Monster Dave on March 23, 2011, 07:32:43 AM
I know what you mean. I hurt my arm a few years back while rock climbing and had to take a full year with no weights or climbing - it was hard at first, but once I refocused on cardio my attention shifted long enough to get me through it.

I didnt know you climbed. Lemme know if you wanna hit rocks and ropes or take a run up some sport routes/bouldering on mt lemmon sometime!

Quote from: djrashonal on March 24, 2011, 12:16:30 AM
I didnt know you climbed. Lemme know if you wanna hit rocks and ropes or take a run up some sport routes/bouldering on mt lemmon sometime!

It's been a while - but I really enjoy it! "Rocks and Ropes" is that an indoor gym?

Bouldering was such a challenge, I liked the technical moves though - in fact, that's what I liked about climbing in general. 

Yea rocks and ropes is downtown off of tool st. It's an ok gym. The bouldering cave I kinda disappointing but they have some good climbs. I used to climb a lot and I've been looking at getting back into it...though it probably won't help with my efforts to trim down. Any other climbers on here?

Missed a week and a half with the lates sinus infection... heading back to training today oughta have me gasping like a fish out of water.

First one back is always the hardest.

Quote from: dropstharockalot on March 25, 2011, 08:12:20 AM
First one back is always the hardest.

I totally agree.

I hopped on the scale this morning and am down 5lbs since the start of cycling season. Shifting from the gym to cycling has been a challenge for me this year because I really loved my routine at the gym, but to be effective and to make strides with cycling, I had to drop it for a while. So now that I've got a solid regimen worked out with cycling, I've added 2 days of a weight routine back into the mix. If I'm not too exhausted, and my cycling isn't negatively effected, I may add an optional 3rd day.

As it stands now though, when my head hits the pillow at the end of the day I'm out like a light. I've already started making a gradual adjustment with my wakeup time and am currently crawling out of bed at 4:30 and rolling on my bike by about 10 till 6am if I'm on schedule. As the sun comes up earlier, I'll be getting up and out that much earlier too. But it's hard; I can cycle in the morning, but I've never been able to do a weight routine effectively early in the morning without feeling like I was going through hell.

So, I've been looking at refreshing my music playlist and thought it might be something that others would be interested in doing too.

What's your favorite music for:

1) Weight Lifting
2) Cardio
3) Cool Down
?

For weight lifting it is Led Zeppelin, Almond Brothers, Kenny Wayne Sheppard but I'm thinking of adding grunge bands. 
For Cardo.  I run outside and listen to the birds singing. 
For cool down, if outside more birds and inside see weight lifting.

Quote from: akmnstr on March 28, 2011, 09:31:34 AM
For weight lifting it is Led Zeppelin, Almond Brothers, Kenny Wayne Sheppard but I'm thinking of adding grunge bands. 
For Cardo.  I run outside and listen to the birds singing. 
For cool down, if outside more birds and inside see weight lifting.

I find that my workouts are more effective with the appropriate music to motivate me.

For lifting  - Disturbed, Rammstein, Van Halen, The Rocky, Matrix, and Mortal Kombat soundtracks.
For Cardio - I have an extensive list - usually high bpm songs.
Cool Down - ??

We're less than a week out from the next bicycle race that we're doing, so this past weekend was my last chance to put in a good training ride. I put in 80 miles with a pretty good 15-20mph headwind for half of the way. It seemed like no matter what way I was pointing the wind was there to push back. Burned over 3000 calories, kept an average speed of 21.5mph.

...it caught up with me last night though, I passed out at 5pm from exhaustion and slept 12 hours!!

How many rest days do u take before a race?

Quote from: cokey on March 28, 2011, 10:50:39 AM
How many rest days do u take before a race?

For this upcoming race which is 72 miles, I anticipate to taper down and/or do real easy maintenance rides until 2 days prior to race day, then take those 2 days completely off.