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Week 4 - Love The Turbo

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21/01/13 - Rest Day 22/01/13 - Turbo Intervals Starting to appreciate the bike again, the turbo trainer seems to giving my legs some more depth and I've definitely noticed some muscle change. I'm really enjoying it too so its definitely helping! Simple interval session, which I will be completing over February so I thought I'd give it a try tonight and see what my progress is made by the end of the month. 15 minutes warm up 15 minutes (1min @ 100 Cadence, 1 min @ 80 Recovery Cadence) 15 minutes warm down I may look to make the interval session to 30 minutes the better my bike fitness gets. Great to see the peaks, I am only on level 1 on the resistance on the turbo trainer but its a start in the right direction. I managed to get the 100 RPM cadence on most intervals and keep it there (or around 97 - 105) On another plus side I was dripping in sweat so I know I must of worked hard... Session Details Duration 00:45:21 Di...

Week 4 - New Gym, New Training, More Pain

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23/01/12 - Rest Day 24/01/12 - Rest Day 25/01/12 - Gym Spinning Since my son has been born, my evening now belong to him (for the time being) so my evening training is out the window, so I've decided to join the gym at my work so when I have a spare hour I can disappear and train in my lunch break. I decided to purchase some training audio and where else to go than Audiofuel, and Chrissie Wellington new audio triathlon training release. I can only recommend it, I've used it for both my spin sessions this week and its pushed me like never before in a bike training session. I only did the 40 minute pyramid but it was intense enough for me just getting back in my training after the long absence. The Pyramid was: Warm Up 1 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 2 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 3 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 4 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 5 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 4 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 3 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 2 min HARD 1 min RECOVERY 1 min HARD Warm Down Se...