This is simply a place to hold each other accountable throughout the year. I plan on updating this thread when workouts occur; not everything will get a post (this ain't Strava!), but hopefully there will be enough content here to get an idea if I'm getting after it.
This isn't a "resolution" thread for useless blabbering about stuff that won't get done.
My to-do list for this year:
3600 miles on the bike (roughly 75 miles/week with a bit of slack time for illness, vacations, whatever). This works out to be about 200 hours, and if I shift too much of my riding to the mountain bike, then maybe it makes more sense to look at time in the saddle instead of distance. Always, I put in 3100 miles and 230 hours in 2019, so this is a reasonable goal.
Maintain something like a 80/20 balance of easy and hard workouts. One would think this to be easy, but every summer, I spend too much time at 90%+ on the mountain bike and then I'm smoked by September.
100 days in the weight room. Didn't come close to this last year, since I really slacked off the weight training during the cycling off-season. No specific 1x rep goals for this year; just looking to pack each ~1hr workout with plenty of functional lifts (particularly targeting the stuff that doesn't get worked on the bike, which is damn near everything other than the quads and glutes). I also do better with stretching when I'm lifting, so that's another good reason to hit the gym.
Spending two days/week in the gym is not a reasonable expectation in the summer, so I need to add some additional days in the off-season, or at least bust out the dumbbells and resistance bands on rainy days to achieve this goal.
Straighten out the diet. It's easy to consume and burn carbs on the bike, but then I carry the pattern into off days. Gotta eat less sugar and grains, and more high-quality fats, protein, and veggies. I'm not going to play with any gimmicky diets; experience says that a macro balance of 33/33/33 works well if I'm active. That might slip to 50/25/25 on days when it's time to hammer, but that can't be the norm.
Lose a few pounds. This needs to be balanced with the goal of functional strength, but I think there's about 15 lbs of extra mass in this chassis that can be shed without much more than some diet clean-up. Hell, probably 5-7 lbs of that is water weight from the holiday sugar-and-salt binge. I'm at 188.9 lbs as of this afternoon.
So there we go - the big stuff that's going to get done this year. Feel free to add your own, or just light me up if I'm slacking.
This isn't a "resolution" thread for useless blabbering about stuff that won't get done.
My to-do list for this year:
3600 miles on the bike (roughly 75 miles/week with a bit of slack time for illness, vacations, whatever). This works out to be about 200 hours, and if I shift too much of my riding to the mountain bike, then maybe it makes more sense to look at time in the saddle instead of distance. Always, I put in 3100 miles and 230 hours in 2019, so this is a reasonable goal.
Maintain something like a 80/20 balance of easy and hard workouts. One would think this to be easy, but every summer, I spend too much time at 90%+ on the mountain bike and then I'm smoked by September.
100 days in the weight room. Didn't come close to this last year, since I really slacked off the weight training during the cycling off-season. No specific 1x rep goals for this year; just looking to pack each ~1hr workout with plenty of functional lifts (particularly targeting the stuff that doesn't get worked on the bike, which is damn near everything other than the quads and glutes). I also do better with stretching when I'm lifting, so that's another good reason to hit the gym.
Spending two days/week in the gym is not a reasonable expectation in the summer, so I need to add some additional days in the off-season, or at least bust out the dumbbells and resistance bands on rainy days to achieve this goal.
Straighten out the diet. It's easy to consume and burn carbs on the bike, but then I carry the pattern into off days. Gotta eat less sugar and grains, and more high-quality fats, protein, and veggies. I'm not going to play with any gimmicky diets; experience says that a macro balance of 33/33/33 works well if I'm active. That might slip to 50/25/25 on days when it's time to hammer, but that can't be the norm.
Lose a few pounds. This needs to be balanced with the goal of functional strength, but I think there's about 15 lbs of extra mass in this chassis that can be shed without much more than some diet clean-up. Hell, probably 5-7 lbs of that is water weight from the holiday sugar-and-salt binge. I'm at 188.9 lbs as of this afternoon.
So there we go - the big stuff that's going to get done this year. Feel free to add your own, or just light me up if I'm slacking.
