Video: Danny Hart Hits the Gym for a Mid Season Workout
Danny Hart just got back from racing in Europe and dropped in for a quick top up training session in the gym to maintain some strength through the season between races. With more races coming up very soon we work on some simple but effective movements to keep him sharp but not cause too much fatigue!
We look at some lightweight movements focusing on the upper body with some pushing and pulling using simple equipment to make the most of his short stop with us on the way for some on bike testing.
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*Not a criticism cause everyone is different and has their own priorities and strategies in some things.
Muscle memory, endurance and performance under duress (As they are to failure or high reps and not short rep numbers).
Try 20 pressups into 20 burpees into 20 situps, to 20 tricep dips....5 sets... as fast as you can.
My bet is that you will be burst pretty quickly and struggle to get to the end of the set.
That said, there often needs to be a combination of exercises, to keep the body stimulated.
Thanks for your insight.
The video appears to be a small part of Dannys training.
I do wonder for a rider like Danny, what is the benefit over just riding Mx that he seemed to do before.
Maybe he feels better in himself and the mirror looks better which is never a bad thing.
Will see where he ends up this year compared to previous.
I do mostly body weight and a single superset when not training for racing. My times on track even at my slow level do show the lack of training and bike time just now. I cant I be bothered training though for those extra seconds on a race run at the moment, its so much hard work! but when I race I wish I had trained and was up to speed in as many ways as possible!!! I guess that Danny is trying to be confident that he is race fit and can smash out laps and still go flat out in finals without being fatigued.
I broke my scapula into 3 last year along with 4 ribs (including 1st rib), the gym has helped massively with recovery. Basic Qi Gong modified to aid mobility was probably the biggest help.
Not much gym work helps for when you have a big one though and break a bone, the forces involved are so high.
Interesting read.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4433554
Even when not training for racing, I still do holding training (Monday to Friday mornings generally) to aid with old injury recovery, posture correction from sitting at a desk all day, base fitness etc.
I explained exactly why I am curious.
Here's one that's true for most people (one of those things it depends on is who we're dealing with at the outset): If someone switches their shoulder presses to handstand press ups, they're going to put on mass (provided the balancing aspect isn't a major roadblock).
Adding strengths means increasing muscle fibers, and I think that adds mass...but maybe I've misunderstood what you mean.
Another example: If we look at powerlifting's lighter weight categories, we see men and women increasing their performance without adding a lot of body mass (admittedly that's power and not strength).
What % of their regiment is likely to focus on body weight exercises? I'm not saying it's none, but it can't be that high.
Well, you could be right, but we'd at least have to know how long he's been doing that specific kind of training.
I look at a coach and ask these questions: Who has he brought up? Whose careers has he turned around? Whose performances clearly improved as a result of this coach's tutelage/coaching?
If you were planning to kidnap 10,000 people off the street to measure fitness levels and such my calculations predict that either 1 or 2 things should also be considered ,I think it would be fairly accurate to say that, ,not only do you risk the possibility of being incarcerated for a very long time.
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I don't know if it's ever been studied but i'm confident that fitness and aesthetics or attractiveness or whatever you want to call it do in fact have a correlation. Generally, fitter people will tend to look better. It's not a universal rule and will not always hold true on an individual level, but I'd bet money that it's a tendency.
When we're calculating correlations we give them a value between -1 and 1. A correlation of 1 means that if one thing doubles, the other thing also doubles (on average). A correlation of -1 means that if one thing doubles, the other thing halves (on average). A correlation of 0 means that one thing changing does not imply that that there will also be a change in the other thing (note that I did not use the word cause anywhere; a correlation just means that two things tend to change together).
Obviously a huge part of your physical appearance is genetics. It's certainly possible to have a very nice looking body without necessarily being all that fit in terms of endurance, and lots of heavier athletes in e.g. rugby or strongman have demonstrated that you can be fit without looking like a Greek god. But that doesn't mean there's no correlation. If you kidnap 10,000 people off the street and measure their fitness and rate their attractiveness, again I would bet money that the fitter people would tend to be more attractive to some degree, especially if you isolate it to "body attractiveness", discounting the face. You should let them go afterwards.
To summarise, I'm not really disagreeing with what I think you meant to express, I'm just being a pedant on the internet.
*Ill-informed Post Ahead*
Its a fact that body fat% and cardiovascular endurance aren't related.
But thanks for the input
If you measure e.g. the frequency that people replace their chains and tires, you will find a correlation. People who replace their chains more often also, on average, replace their tires more often. There will be a lot of variance due to different types of riding, but there will be some correlation. It's not that tire wear causes chain wear or vice versa, it's that riding your bike causes both so they tend to vary together.
In the case of aesthetics vs. fitness, as I said in my first post they don't necessarily depend on each other, but on average people who exercise more will be both fitter and better looking than people who don't.
Cardiorespiratory Endurance.
Stamina.
Strength.
Flexibility.
Power.
Speed.
Coordination.
Accuracy.
Obviously at bodybuilder isn’t going to be fit for Mtb, or darts, or pole vaulting. But they’ll lift heavier shit than these other athletes combined. So they’re fit for the purpose of their sport
Whether their training leaves them functionally fit is another question. That bulk is fairly useless if you need to haul it around quickly, or accurately