Not Riding Unsettles Me
// October 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Health & Fitness
So for the past week or so, between being pretty busy at home and work, and then being off and on sick, I haven’t had the chance, nor energy to workout — not a single ride nor run. Over the past couple years, I’ve come to the realization how much working out — especially cycling calms me, reduces my stress and just improves my overall mood. While everyone differs, for me, more than the day-to-day fitness, the mental fitness it brings me seems to be of utmost importance.
Here’s to getting a ride in consistently the next couple days, and for the majority of this winter whenever possible.
Yesterday, Livestrong.com did a great little writeup on losing water weight. It’s all common sense stuff, but good to get validation. Moving to almost exclusively water in conjunction to a near daily bike ride has been a great way to drop some weight for me personally.
Bicycling.com has another great article about fitness rules you’ve heard in the past that are completely cool to break — some only with only select training goals in mind. Regardless, a lot of good info in the article linked below.
Man, Keefer Madness has been all about cycling this week. Sure, it’s had a lot of cycling posts over the past five years or so, but this past week has been nothing but cycling between the Tour de France and the fact, I’ve been able to consistently get back in the saddle.
I am seeing more and more of these type of reports that tout interval training as being a quicker way to obtain and maintain fitness. This is great news for those of us time-crunched between work, families and all other types of commitments. But even so, I strive to be able to have as many miles on the bike as often as possible. If I had to whittle down my time in the saddle to only interval training, well that would just make it seem too much like work. I want those miles where I’m just spinning, where I’m riding with friends and teammates and where I’m just relieving stress. Putting everything into as small an amount of time would just put pressure, stress and an element of monotony that I gladly never experience out on the road. I hope to keep it that way by allowing plenty of training and saddle time — mix it up with meaningful and “junk miles” as much as I can!
