Thursday, April 29, 2010

Training Tip #3: Cross-training

The beauty of cross-training is varying the groups of muscles being used.

Cycling works certain groups of muscles, but some muscles will be lightly used than others. Thus, a good cyclist is not always a good runner. (People can ride unstopping and hard for endless miles, but may not be able to run more than a few miles.)

With cross-training, more muscles are being used and it surely will help people become stronger in their primary activities.

Of course, and wintertime isn't easy for doing "warmer weather" sports such as bicycling. Most cyclists have their "off-season" during wintertime and use that time to do serious cross-trainings. (A few cyclists however seemed to like to ride through deep snow for some reason.)
Whatever creative activities we do during the cold months, we all will want to thaw at end of the adventure, enjoying preferably the cheap, effective warmth from the WoodCoal stoves!
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EDIT: Cat Berge crosstraining by cutting grass the real way!

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