So what are your thoughts on physical activity other than SBR? (Page 2)

Besides SBR:

play video games

fixin stuff around the house

private time with my wife

axteraa - 2012-07-24 6:05 AM So, 15 sessions of SBR + strength per week and you want to do more?  Do you sleep??  

You misunderstood...12 hours of SBR...not sessions.

CyborgQueen - 2012-07-24 1:37 PM

axteraa - 2012-07-24 6:05 AM So, 15 sessions of SBR + strength per week and you want to do more?  Do you sleep??  

You misunderstood...12 hours of SBR...not sessions.

Indeed I did, my mistake.

CyborgQueen - 2012-07-24 1:37 PM

axteraa - 2012-07-24 6:05 AM So, 15 sessions of SBR + strength per week and you want to do more?  Do you sleep??  

You misunderstood...12 hours of SBR...not sessions.

Indeed I did, my mistake.

This post nailed it.   

I love cycling much more than swimming and running. I enjoy running, but mostly when I feel like it. :-P If I have a run planned, and someone posted about a cycling meetup, and whether it's long/short, I'll switch up my run, and do the group ride. 

I never feel that extra activities hurt SBR. In fact, I think it HELPS!  Either to mix things up a little bit, to stretch better, letting yourself loose, and basically just having fun. 

That's why I come here, I never question anything she says directly, she says jump, I say how high and where into lol

And yeah CQ knows my schedule as well I do lol

Was reading the comments in my phone this morning but I can't type that much on the phone and had to be off to swim.  That's the thing, I want to do 20 hours of group classes and 20 hours of SBR  I mainly got a coach not to motivate me but to hold me back and she's doing that wonderfully lol  Months later up to 50 miles on the bike, 8 miles on the run, 2400m drills, thinner, leaner, lighter, and more muscular, my shoulder tear is LOADS better because the strength training built up the muscles around it to the point that I now use that arm to open doors and carry grocery bags and I can extend fully to grab the kickboard properly, and quite a bit less body fat, but most importantly, brilliantly injury free and loving every second of it.

That's why when I get the itch every time I know if I just take.... one.... class....., that's just going to escalate into 20  Took a trip to Israel to where I physically was unable to take classes to break me from them.  I was taking 2-4 per day every day, 20-25 per week (and loving every second of it).  It was my exercise, my socializing, etc.

A previous coach (who wanted to do years of Sprints and Olys before an IM which is why I switched) did get me hooked into having a coach and said something brilliant:  If you're going to do what you want, why are you going to pay a coach.  If you pay a coach, then do what they say.

It's just like an old lover who was bad for you but who lingers in your memory for years after the breakup  Some days are just harder to get through than others lol  I was in a bathroom at a gas station in the middle of a long ride and I totally broke out into a dance that lasted over a minute (I WAS wearing headphones, one bud out, and yes that's a whole other thread).

I suck at SBR.  But I want to put in months and  years of training and get better.  But I love the training itself.  But if I have to choose, I choose SBR as primary with everything else secondary, at least for now.

Directly - it probably won't help your performance in triathlon.

indirectly -  freshness and overall health might be good. helps keep the burnout away.

You need to do what you enjoy and what makes you feel good. If that means  doing a zumba class then do it.

Hell with your coaches reasoning you can put a zumba or any of thoses other classes in place of some of your strength sessions because the benefit, in SBR terms, of those is questionable. Why not swap something with a questionable benefit for something else with a questionable benefit but gain something positive from the enjoyment you get from doing it.

hmmmm you are going to have to cut that out if you want to be a triathlete.

Oh, my strength training is the one thing I would keep even over the SBR.  I had a shoulder tear pre-training and the surgeon said to put surgery off for now since it doesn't bother me that much and to only have it when I can't stand the pain any longer.  I didn't use the left arm to hold grocery bags, open doors, sling my purse over it, etc.  The strength training strengthened the muscles around the tear and now I use both arms to open doors, carry many heavy bags, sling stuff over, hold my kickboard correctly, etc.  I have a wider range of motion with less pain (I always had 100% range of motion with pain).  Now I feel it twinge maybe 5% of the time and I use it more heavily than before (the surgeon said to SBR to my heart's content, there was nothing really I could do to make it worse, and if it something hurt, don't do it, which is what I was already doing anyway).  Only one strength training exercise has hurt so far, and that is punching across my chest with weights.  That crossing motion kills the shoulder.  I can even use the sitting crunching machines and I couldn't due to pain before.  Strength training has been one of the best things that has happened to my quality of life