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heavy day/light day plan (% of 1RM)
I'm putting together a winter (off season) training plan for mountain biking. This plan will start in November. I'm scheduling in a 4 week "hypertrophy period". This essentially involves 4 sessions a week 2 heavy 2 light. This is based on the "Morris Plan" which was pointed out to me by EvgeniZyntx. I will be doing a 2…
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Fat loss, muscle maintenance & mountain biking update
So I posted here maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago talking about how I'm trying to cut and train for cross country ultra endurance mountain biking. I had my second body composition profile done last week so thought I would report back with an update. To give an idea of time scale it was 5 weeks between the 2 sessions. During the five…
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Strength and endurance but not bulk
Some back ground first. This is a bit of a brain dump so apologies, I'm just trying to include as much info as possible. I'm into mountain biking. I'm hoping to get into ultra endurance racing; 12/24 hour and multi day unsupported racing. Mountain biking is all about the power to weight ratios. I have been cutting and I'm…
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Looking to make that next step
I have signed up recently and still feel a bit on my own here. I'm generally in shape and have been for a while but I'm looking to take that next step. I'm big into mountain biking and want to really get to low end athlete type levels of fitness and physique. I started out about 179lbs, with my first goal being 165lbs. At…
