Fitness

Bike Training Tips

10 Essential Tricks for Bicycle Race Training

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How you begin practicing for long-distance bicycling race largely is dependent upon your present fitness level, age, and the amount of cycling you’ve done before. Below talked about are among the better tips on planning yourself for bike race training. 1. Teach yourself cardiovascular endurance Having enough cardiovascular endurance is crucial for a bicycle race. During times of extreme exercise, the biker must have the ability to generate energy for his muscles. There’re a lot of methods for you to teach to increase this cardiovascular endurance. Some of the most known exercises for this function include:  Long, gradual distance training…

Yoga

Practicing my yoga poses

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I’ve been enjoying a lot of time off recently and as a result I’ve had lots of time to practice some new yoga poses. I started yoga several years ago but there aren’t as many places to go to classes here that are convenient. So I do most of my yoga by myself at the beach. The only downside is that with no instructor, it’s hard to get feedback on whether I’m doing the poses correctly. I found some great pose guides at places like yogasimple.net and on Yoga Journal. The Yoga Journal site has a really great database of…

Running Sneakers

Running my first half marathon

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I made a promise to myself to start running again and I’m setting a personal goal of running a half marathon this year. For a while I thought about running a full marathon but that’s just too long and I don’t have the time to do all the training. But a half marathon seems a lot easier so I’m going to give it a shot. I just need to get a good half marathon training plan together and then get out there and do a lot of running over the next several weeks. I’m kind of excited about it! I…