i found a "workout of the week" on the spinervals webpage. it had me doing a 10 minute warmup, about 15 minutes of steadily harder work (enough to tire out the legs but not push me too hard), 3x90sec wall sits, 3x12 vertical leaps, then 5x1min seated sprints (note, this is all my terminology, since i don't know what my thresholds are and the workout as written left room for interpretation)
i found the wall-sits to be especially hard. i haven't done them since tennis camp in 9th grade, and i remember being able to do them for about 60-75 sec. obviously i did a little bit to tire out the legs before doing the wall-sits, but i am surprised that i can barely pull off 3x90. this, however, is not the point of this post.
my question is this: how sport-specific are these wall-sits? what about the jumps (i can somewhat see those being related to explosive pedaling)? are they worth doing?
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"The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves." -- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
i found the wall-sits to be especially hard. i haven't done them since tennis camp in 9th grade, and i remember being able to do them for about 60-75 sec. obviously i did a little bit to tire out the legs before doing the wall-sits, but i am surprised that i can barely pull off 3x90. this, however, is not the point of this post.
my question is this: how sport-specific are these wall-sits? what about the jumps (i can somewhat see those being related to explosive pedaling)? are they worth doing?
http://www.theninjadon.blogspot.com
"The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves." -- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises