How to improve your fitness?
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rjsterry wrote:Rich158 wrote:There's no easy answer to hills other than do more of them and be prepared for it to hurt.
Hills require a well developed lactic system, and a good power to weight ratio. It might also be worth looking at your technique, do you spin or grind? Personally I go for zone4 work on hills, or above 84% MHR and it seems to do the trick
I can confirm without a shadow of doubt and without any calculation that Succomb's Hill put me well into zone 4. Only three minutes of it though, so I guess I need to do some reps :shock: feck!
I have the same fun with Sydenham Hill, for some reason it's about the only hill I can consistently get up to 175 bpm on. Not bad for an old boypain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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Rich158 wrote:rjsterry wrote:Rich158 wrote:There's no easy answer to hills other than do more of them and be prepared for it to hurt.
Hills require a well developed lactic system, and a good power to weight ratio. It might also be worth looking at your technique, do you spin or grind? Personally I go for zone4 work on hills, or above 84% MHR and it seems to do the trick
I can confirm without a shadow of doubt and without any calculation that Succomb's Hill put me well into zone 4. Only three minutes of it though, so I guess I need to do some reps :shock: feck!
I have the same fun with Sydenham Hill, for some reason it's about the only hill I can consistently get up to 175 bpm on. Not bad for an old boy
Going up Succomb's, I think I could hear my heart beat - an actual audible noise - at least that's what it felt like. I'll have to try it with the HRM and see what the numbers are, but I know I can get past 180bpm just running up Dover House Road in Putney, so I reckon I might get to 190 or just past.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Rich158 wrote:suzyb wrote:How would you go about improving your lung capacity.
I find when MTBing especially my legs feel OK but I have to stop because I'm puffing and panting.
You probably need more base level endurance work. I have the opposite problem, my CV fitness is OK but I feel I lack power in my legs on hills. That's exactly why I always use a HR monitor, without one I always find I'm working to hard when I'm doing base level work.
When do you start puffing and panting, after a long time in the sadlle or when working hard on hills etc?
Apparently you can increase your lung capacity
http://www.wikihow.com/Increase-Your-Lung-Capacity
good old wiki, there's an answer for anything I've never tried it myself though
Rich, that is my problem: except on steep hills I rarely get remotely out of breath, but my legs have no endurance. I've always been relatively better at longish-term intermediate levels of exertion, fast hillwalking with a pack all day, for example.0 -
That's exactly the problem I tend to have. It's taken me a he'll of a lot of high intensity work to feel like I have any power in my legspain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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