Bl**dy hell

Brian1
Brian1 Posts: 595
edited August 2010 in Training, fitness and health
Been of the bike for 6 weeks due to holidays and work commitments.Out today for the first time and it really was hard.Ave heart rate was 10% higher than normal. I didn't think fitness dropped off that quickly!

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  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    6 weeks is hardly 'quickly'.....
  • doyler78
    doyler78 Posts: 1,951
    softlad wrote:
    6 weeks is hardly 'quickly'.....

    Agreed. I think I seen somewhere that after 4 weeks you get to tipping point where considerable effort is required to get yourself back to shape you were in beforehand.
  • Brian1
    Brian1 Posts: 595
    Yeah, point taken.
  • BeaconRuth
    BeaconRuth Posts: 2,086
    Brian1 wrote:
    Been of the bike for 6 weeks due to holidays and work commitments.Out today for the first time and it really was hard.Ave heart rate was 10% higher than normal. I didn't think fitness dropped off that quickly!
    In your case what your HR did on your ride was an extremely unreliable indicator (if any indicator at all) of your fitness. You will have been so 'fresh' that your HR will have been essentially meaningless. So trying to in any way equate HR to 'fitness' on a first training ride back is really not worth doing. (If I'm completely knackered from loads of training, my HR won't go up very high when I train - but that doesn't mean I'm suddenly loads fitter than I was the day before.)

    A first ride back after a long break is one of those times when a HRM will deliver such a curved ball that you're better off leaving it at home IMO.

    Ruth
    http://www.rutheyles.co.uk/
  • Jordan93
    Jordan93 Posts: 336
    It's called reversibility mate, you become 'unfitter' for want of a better word much quicker than you gain muscular endurance etc.
  • Brian1
    Brian1 Posts: 595
    Thanks Ruth appreciate your input.
  • greenacre
    greenacre Posts: 20
    After 20 days VO2 max goes down 1% each day after that.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    greenacre wrote:
    After 20 days VO2 max goes down 1% each day after that.

    I doubt it's that precise in everyone!
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    greenacre wrote:
    After 20 days VO2 max goes down 1% each day after that.

    What happens after 365 days? Does your VO2 max go down my 365% and keep going?....
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    Jordan93 wrote:
    It's called reversibility mate, you become 'unfitter' for want of a better word much quicker than you gain muscular endurance etc.

    Just like the price of petrol.
    No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!

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