What does the ST community do when they’re not swimming, biking, or running?
I’ve recently adopted paddleboarding as my crosstraining activity of choice (at least in the warmer months). I’d highly recommend it for a great non-impact workout that emphasizes balance, core strength, and upper body strength training.
Coming from Florida, its relatively easy to do here with bodies of water and warmer weather in abundance year round. What do all of you in the colder climates do during the off-season?
What does the ST community do when they’re not swimming, biking, or running?
What do all of you in the colder climates do during the off-season?
Shovel snow.
something you like to do because no crosstraining activity is going to make you particularly faster at tris than another
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I practice my transitions all winter long. T1 > T2 > Finish Line. Over and over and over.
What does the ST community do when they’re not swimming, biking, or running?
I’ve recently adopted paddleboarding as my crosstraining activity of choice (at least in the warmer months). I’d highly recommend it for a great non-impact workout that emphasizes balance, core strength, and upper body strength training.
Coming from Florida, its relatively easy to do here with bodies of water and warmer weather in abundance year round. What do all of you in the colder climates do during the off-season?
I paddle board too as well kayak and pilates.
I do a few things:
Bikram yoga for flexibility and core strength, also helps work out any muscle kinks/aches. An added benefit is being able to better handle hot humid training/racing days since each class is 90 minutes in that environment.
Indo-Row - just started doing this about a month ago at the gym near where I live and I really enjoy it. It’s different from traditional rowing machines where it uses a water tank as resistance to create a more natural effect. Excellent core strength/aerobic workout where the gym has classes similar to spin classes to mix things up a bit. http://www.indorow.com
Snowshoeing when the weather cooperates. I live near a wooded reservation that has a wide variety of trails/terrain so it’s a great spot year-round for hiking, trail runs etc.
I XC Ski during the winter months. When I get 20+ days on snow I come out of the dark in the spring ready to crush dreams.
Snowboarding and x-county skiing.
Bikram yoga for flexibility and core strength, also helps work out any muscle kinks/aches. An added benefit is being able to better handle hot humid training/racing days since each class is 90 minutes in that environment.
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Bikram Yoga is good for water and breathing disciplines. It aligns your body so as to prevent injury and gain more benefit from your other training. For me, it knocked out (so far) a nagging sciatica problem. Like all forms of Yoga, it teaches you to listen to your body. You don’t just have an ache somewhere, you know exactly where it is, which clues you to how to get rid of it.
From another thread, I saw the 100 yo that completed the Toronto Marathon was an avid Yogi. Not sure true or not, but that’s where I want to be. Able to finish a full mary at 100.
Squash; Really different workout on many different levels (rotations, accelerations, duration of each effort, etc).
Getting back in my wifes good graces. So I can do this madness all over again next year.
yoga and weight lifting mostly core and lower body
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Jack, I love your consistency. I really do. But you are wrong. There are cross training activities that are beneficial to endurance sports. XC skiing, rowing, and roller blading are all great cross training activities, and I’m starting to hear good things about stand-up paddle boarding, although I can’t comment myself.