Top tips required for increasing leg strength!

grumpycommuter":3debmeta said:

Surgery, drugs of joining a gym are not on the cards!

I do a couple of interval sessions a week, one with short reps for leg speed :facepalm: and the other with longer reps. Twice a month i do a measured 10 to see how i am progressing, or not as the case maybe

I'm spinning well at 23 / 24 mph and breathing ok but my legs are giving out before my breathing does. I was thinking about chucking some hill reps in.

Any thoughts?

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Midlife":1ri4gr5v said:

Fartlek

Shaun

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biggs682":33w3xpci said:

just enjoy what you are doing matey , who cares about going fast at our age

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Midlife":30h5zsav said:

Please tell me you don't have a heart rate monitor.......

Shaun

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widowmaker":30h5zsav said:

I used to be the same, I found it was because I was overtraining and not having enough rest between :facepalm:

Now I have at least one whole days rest a week and that's total rest (ie sofa/tv)

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grumpycommuter":jmnsxhab said:

Midlife":jmnsxhab said:

Please tell me you don't have a heart rate monitor.......

Shaun

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Good god NO!!

widowmaker":jmnsxhab said:

I used to be the same, I found it was because I was overtraining and not having enough rest between :facepalm:

Now I have at least one whole days rest a week and that's total rest (ie sofa/tv)

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I suspect there may be a little of this as well. You must be fit cycling in Dorset, it's a little lumpy isn't it?

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