"Kevan Smith" <
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> On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:54:03 GMT, "loki" <
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wrote:
>
> > So how long does it take for muscles to atrophy given a decide
lack
> >of cycling through the dark winter season?
>
> I think you start losing muscle and cardio gains within two to three
weeks. From
> what I've gathered, the cardio is easier to get back.
> >
> > How much 'maintenance' work would be enough to keep the bicycle
propulsion
> >system in tune?
>
> Exercise vigorously at least three times per week for at least 60 minutes
per
> session. I'd do leg and core work and some sort of indoor cardio.
I swim through the winter [summer as well actually] so that covers my cardio I guess. I do 1 hour
sets once or twice a day mebbe every other day on average. I was thinking more about my cycle
specific muscles. In swimming I consciously do not use my lower body much but concentrate my effort
on upper body to balance the cycling. I still cycle in winter. It is my method of transport. But
that is basically the ~20 - in winter at least - minute each way commute to/from work 3-4 times a
week. I might get out for the odd winter ride but nothing like summer time.
What brought this thought on was that for Jan. I didn't even do much swimming. I pulled a muslce in
muscle in my bicep. I havent a freakin' clue as to how I did it. It was just sore as hell. But Jan
was pretty much a writeoff for exercise in general.
--
'And then one day you find, Ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run You missed
the starting gun' -pink floyd
