I was curious to see what kind of work outs some of you perform to maintain your driving levels. If anyone is an expert in this area then please give me some advice. I'm looking for some new workouts.

This is my current routine 3-4 times a week.
25 Mins Stationary Bike,
3 Sets of 50 - Crunches
3 Sets of 8 Bench
3 Sets of 10 Should shrugs
3 sets of 8 curls
3 sets of 10 pull downs
10 Min Stationary Reclined bike.

 

Bike (Road or Trail) 4-5 days/week.
12-ounce curls

 

Diet Is most important.

Breakfast.

1 egg
Grapefruit juice
Coffee
2 choaclate donuts.

Mid Morning

coffee with fake sugar
toast without crust
cheese dainish

Lunch
Diet soda
This is important because anything you eat with a diet soda has no calories
18 oz. steak
2 potatoes
ice cream sundae

Mid afternoon
2 cheeseburgers
French fries
DIET SODA

Dinner
Here's where we can go off the diet a little since we have been so careful so far.
Fried Chicken
Corn
Potatoes
but don't forget the DIET SODA

IMPORTANT
Stay away from a large snack before sleeping.
Nothing bigger than an ice cream sundae.

That's how I maintain my weight.

 

 

lol.

 

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Breakfast.

1 egg
Grapefruit juice
Coffee
2 choaclate donuts.

Mid Morning

coffee with fake sugar
toast without crust
cheese dainish

Lunch
Diet soda
This is important because anything you eat with a diet soda has no calories
18 oz. steak
2 potatoes
ice cream sundae

Mid afternoon
2 cheeseburgers
French fries
DIET SODA

Dinner
Here's where we can go off the diet a little since we have been so careful so far.
Fried Chicken
Corn
Potatoes
but don't forget the DIET SODA

IMPORTANT
Stay away from a large snack before sleeping.
Nothing bigger than an ice cream sundae.

That's how I maintain my weight.

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Had me laughing the entire time I read this......

 

Mon: biceps and triceps
Tues: Neck, cardio, abs
Wed: shoulder
Thurs: off, kart practice after work
Fri: Chest, back
Sat: off
Sun: kart race.

my cycle is basically 4 weeks of heavy weights, low reps, and then 1 week of light weight, high rep. about 12-15 different sets of exercise per muscle group.

i eat around 5 meals a day, nothing after 730 pm.
absolutely NO fried food, nor pop.

i started this program in march.. it's been working great.

 

I"m no expert, but I would think that you want to increase your stamina, as well as condition your muscles. I would therefore try something like this (what I'm doing)

3 days a week: 45 to 60 minute cardio (run, bike, elliptical, etc.)
2 days a week: weight training

Once you have built up your endurance and reached your weight goal, switch it to cardio 2 days a week, and weight lifting 3 days a week.
You can then tailor your weight program to build, tone or maintain.

I think that your current cardio training is too short to build endurance.

PS - and yeah, do abs about 10 minutes each day. It's amazing how much strength, and balance you gain from strengthening your core. I have gotten rid of chronic lower back aches just by working out my core regularly. Pilates kick *** for that, BTW.

JMO, YMMV, and all other fine print stuff...

 

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bingo...im glad i started back up again.
kestrel ems road bike and trek y22 mountain bike.

 

What exactly is Pilates? I was thinking about taking a once a week yoga class? Thanks for the input. I'll start doing more cardio.

 

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I dont have a road bike yet Need to hurry up and get one.

 

i do a few corona curls on the sofa

 

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after you get one, then you have to worry about finding a riding partner w/o the roadie ego.

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lol!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Grumpy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Diet Is most important.

Breakfast.

1 egg
Grapefruit juice
Coffee
2 choaclate donuts.

Mid Morning

coffee with fake sugar
toast without crust
cheese dainish

Lunch
Diet soda
This is important because anything you eat with a diet soda has no calories
18 oz. steak
2 potatoes
ice cream sundae

Mid afternoon
2 cheeseburgers
French fries
DIET SODA

Dinner
Here's where we can go off the diet a little since we have been so careful so far.
Fried Chicken
Corn
Potatoes
but don't forget the DIET SODA

IMPORTANT
Stay away from a large snack before sleeping.
Nothing bigger than an ice cream sundae.

That's how I maintain my weight.</TD></TR></TABLE>


you call that dieting? or are you kidding? lol

either way any soda is bad for you including diet...water is the best

 

yoga will do wonders for your flexibility, which is good. Pilates are basically floor exercises to strengthen you. A lot of gyms offer those classes, as well as abdominal classes. Those are great to strengthen the middle of the body (core = abs + lower back) - which makes you a lot stronger all around.
Personally, I have a hard time getting motivated to work my abs more than 10 minutes at a time. So taking a 30 minute abs class every once in a while lets me get a better core workout than I ever could by myself.

 

I seem to be on the other end of the exercise spectrum as some others are but you can add:

*Add many 45 lb. 4 year old boy lifts daily, extra effort if he is wiggly or trying to poke, pinch, or pull your hair.
* 8+ hours a day generally sitting in a desk chair is great for building up big glutes tied with constant telephone receiver curls
* Diet includes anything nearby within reach not being descriminating for taste, carbs, fat, etc.
*Maybe a little X-Box Colin McRae 04 late at night for thumb dexterity practice
* Lawn mowing once a week

Having found myself breathing hard from minimal exertion after driving several hard laps, I know damned well this needs to change before I try to race again. The closest I have gotten to physical exercise of late is diligently watching the Tour de France on TV.

Meanwhile the new eliptical machine and stair stepper sit downstairs being lonely...

 

When not at the track I do extensive arm curls while holding my remote control switching between channels watching IRL, ALMS, CART, F1, NASCAR, NASCAR Trucks, Grand Am, WRC, Formula Mazda, French Ice Racing, and on occasion the annual John Deere lawn mower nationals.

Cheers,

Jon

 

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Yep, only 12 oz. reps for me...

 

Mountain biking is by far the best fitness builder I've found yet. You track guys are lucky you don't have to sit in the damn car for 8-10 hours at a time!

 

Your lucky you don't have wear nomex underwear, a three layer Nomex suit inside a cockpit that reaches 120+ degree while sitting on the starting grid for 30 minutes and then have to race for 1 or 2 hours

Seriously I don't have a freakin clue how Allan McNish did two stints (nearly 3 hours) in an LMP car (Audi R8) in 98 degree weather when his water bottle system took a sh*t 10 minutes into the first stint.

They could have just pulled up the hearse for me when we did the driver change.

Regards,

Jon

 

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Seriously I don't have a freakin clue how Allan McNish did two stints (nearly 3 hours) in an LMP car (Audi R8) in 98 degree weather when his water bottle system took a sh*t 10 minutes into the first stint.

They could have just pulled up the hearse for me when we did the driver change.

Regards,

Jon
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The 3 layer Nomex comes this year! One of our issues (CARS/SCCA) we've discussed as drivers is why you'll see the WRC boys in a glorified T shirt, nomex shorts and the windows open, and we have to wear a portable oven! Believe it or not, that is one of the reasons we're building a Gp.2 Civic as opposed to production: The roof scoop. Not allowed in Prod. class, but OK'd for group 2.


Have you experimented with a Camelback water bag?

 

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Damn....that's a great idea never thought about it. I have one I use for biking.

I used some drink bottle systems a few years ago when I did some endurance racing but those darn things never work right.

You Camelback bag idea is great. Do you just wear it or hang it somewhere behind the seat?

Jon

 

Jon, just strap it on the main hoop behind your seat and remember to thread it (the tube) under a [shoulder] belt so it doesn't fall out of sight/reach. Between that and snapping a fitting on a cool suit, not sure which sucks more.

 

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You could hang it off the back of the harness bar, I suppose.

RJ - who's going to give that one a try

 

a) Are you married = Yes
b) Do you have kids = Yes c) &gt; 1 = Yes
d) Do you work full time = Yes

If you answers "Yes" to any of the above then answer "no time for working out"!