Clatters Chatter: Injury Woes
‘NO!!!’, I have picked up an injury. This week has been all about rest and recovery and trying to get fit and well. I will talk about today how vital rest is and why it is so important in our…
What Can Your Resting Heart Rate Tell You About Your Recovery?
Your Resting Heart Rate (HR) is a qwik insight into how well you are recovering from your training. It needs to be kept in perspective though. You may remember from your school biology or Phys Ed class having to manually…
Best of the Internet for Endurance Athletes: 25 Sep 16
Each Sunday I’ll post my ‘best of’ list in a number of categories from the inter-webs. Other weeks can be found here. Click on the images to link through to the article.
What Happens When You Don’t Take A Rest Day?
Rest Days are important. Have you ever worked 7 days per week in a job for an extended period of time without taking a day off? If you have you will then know how draining that is. If you haven’t,…
Best of the Internet for Endurance Athletes: 10 July 16
Each Sunday I’ll post my ‘best of’ list in a number of categories from the inter-webs. Other weeks can be found here.
Best of the Internet for Endurance Athletes: 03 July 16
Each Sunday I’ll post my ‘best of’ list in a number of categories from the inter-webs. Other weeks can be found here.
Best of the Internet for Endurance Athletes: 28 February 2016
Each Sunday I’ll post my ‘best of’ list in a number of categories from the inter-webs. Other weeks can be found here. Technology/Equipment Blogs https://humancyclist.wordpress.com/2016/02/07/is-strava-premium-worth-it/ Is paying for Strava worth it? Training Blogs http://trisutto.com/the-olympic-year/ Don’t be in your best form or…
Rest and Recovery: How to Recover from Racing and Training Better
Does your training and racing leave you tired and shattered? Want to get back up and going quicker after events or training sessions? There are a range of things you can do to assist with recovering from events and training…
1 week ago
I had a busy weekend over in the Manawatu this weekend. Yesterday I helped my son-in-law with his @hivesmanawatu stall at the Winter's Day Out market held in Palmerston North and today I headed into the city to do a few things. One of them was to freedom run the park run course. No walking in my training today. I'm gradually regaining my aerobic fitness and it's a confidence building feeling. #freedomparkrun #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner #runnersofinstagram #offroadrun #wintercolours #winterafternoon- 4 weeks ago
I volunteered again at the Greytown Woodside park run, then had breakfast at The Offering with the park runners. After that I returned to Woodside Railway station & ran to the "start line" of the park run and then ran 4 minutes, walked 1 minute to cover off a freedom park run. This strategy seemed to work well and I improved on last week's effort. My legs felt reasonably good after their solid gym workout yesterday. Now to increase aerobic fitness. #freedomparkrun #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner - 4 days ago
#heretoride a great day in CAP with perfect riding conditions. Cheers to @matt_reido for the company and bed for the night. See you next time 🚵♂️ #QwikKiwi #coachray - 2 weeks ago
Park run #51 for me. I am currently only running once a week (including this run), so I ran 4 minutes, walked 1 minute. I realise I need to slot another two runs in each week. I usually am less motivated during winter and last week I didn't even get into the gym until Friday. I felt blah all week. I need some sunshine, like the rest of us ☀️😊 #parkrun51 #parkrun #parkrunnz #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner #runnersofinstagram #offroadrun - 1 week ago
The pool is finally open so made the most of it for 2,500m this afternoon. Great to be back in there. Pressed the wrong button on my @garmin and didn’t record the last 200m of the Cool Down #garminfail 🏊♂️ #qwikkiwi #coachray - 4 weeks ago
Another half hour on the wind trainer. So I am not looking at my watch all the time to see how time is left I watch Netflix on my phone which I sit on a towel across the handle bars 😊 #windtrainer #training #trainingsession #cycle #crosstraining #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instacyclist #keepingfit
8 week Spin Fitness Training Plan
This is a great training plan to build your cycling fitness over 8 weeks. Whether you are a road cyclist, mountain biker, Zwift or Peloton user or wanting to use a spin bike for general fitness.
Whether you want to improve your fitness during COVID lockdown or the Southern Hemisphere winter; the 8 week Spin Fitness Training Plans will help you take your fitness level to new heights.
There are a number of options for these Training Plans within the training spectrum depending on how long and the frequency of your normally rides.
Options based on how long you currently ride for:
- less than 30 minutes,
- 30-40 minutes,
- 40-50 minutes,
- 50-60 minutes, or
- more than an hour.
As well as options for riding 3, 4, 5 or in some cases 6 times per week, to optimise your fitness over the next 8 weeks.
After you've completed this 8 week block you can adapt to a more specific plan to target a specific event or specific goal.