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therealmoney-Great job completing these workouts; remember consistency is going to be your best friend to gaining long term strength & endurance. Now that you are dialing in your strength program, back up your efforts with high quality recovery food within 20 minutes. The foundation to speed and endurance is going to be food, so plan ahead and enjoy.
-Robb Beams/MotoE

Thanks Robb, recently recognized that recovery time takes almost as much effort and organization as gym time. Preparing meals, eating on time, getting enough sleep, therapy etc. It's fun though!

Not to drag this out, but I want you to know that food preparation and consumption is one of the biggest challenges that I have with all of our clients (350+ this month) across all of our divisions: endurance, speed & agility, motocross. You will find that you literally have to "schedule" time out of your day to ensure that you purchase, prep and consume your food. When one of these three elements are interrupted, the drive through becomes more frequent (not out of "bad behavior", but lack of time). Being aware of this will eliminate most of the hurdles. Keep up the good work buddy!
-Robb Beams/MotoE

Agreed, diet and food prep is 24/7...

Back to the LTHR test for cycling. I see that I have a couple coming up (week 8 workouts). I don't have a power meter, I just use the gym's spin bike. What do you guys suggest that I do for the LTHR test this time around? One of the computerized cycling machines? Man those things are uncomfortable...

I wouldn't be too concerned with the power on the bike if I were you. Just do the test and keep training. Power (in this case) is only used as a way to measure fitness improvement. There are other ways to measure this like how you feel in general and the most important measure of all if you are training for MX.....how you feel on the bike!

Maybe one day you will want to invest in a power meter for your bike but they are pretty pricey. I have one for my stationary trainer but it doesn't work very well.

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Tim Crytser
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You're right, bottom line is performance on the track. 20 Minute practice motos feel better these days for sure (although I really need a lap timer see if my laps are consistent). Race coming up this Sunday, we'll see how it goes. I'm on week 7, and it calls for an easy 1 hour ride on Saturday. Should I still ride the bicycle for an hour if I'm racing the next day? I could do it on Friday instead?

If it's an easy ride I don;t see anything wrong with it. That is a call that is really up to you. Are you tired the day after a ride like that? If so, skip it. If not (and I doubt that you would be tired) go for it.

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Tim Crytser
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I ended up doing 10min W/U, then 3x's 6min Zone4/2min Zone2 intervals, 35 min all together. Felt fine Sunday thru practice and first moto. Had a second moto I would rather forget...
Good part is in the first moto, my laps were consistent through out the 8 laps, where as previously my first lap was good, then the rest were 2-3 seconds a lap slower. Just gotta keep chipping away...