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BIKES: Trackday Training with Cornerspeed®

Spring Training Isn’t Just For Baseball...

Aaron Stevenson | http://cornerspeed.net | Posted February 01, 2010 Charlotte, NC

Eric Bostrom (r) and a friend climbing 14k foot Mt. Evans just under 2 months before the Nevada Silverman Ironman Triathlon. Eric has 2 freshly broken ribs and 3 broken metacarpals. (Photo: Courtesy of Eric Bostrom)

Spring Training Isn’t Just For Baseball...

Greetings once again from the paddock. We’ve made it through the holidays and if you haven’t begun your training then let’s get started now! January 1st and “new year resolutions” tend to be a great motivator for people but three weeks later, the winter “doldrums” hit and the enthusiasm waivers only to return in the spring and. . . you know it, your fitness isn’t where it needs to be. So don’t let the cold weather and gray skies get you down. Spring is just around the corner so lets get in shape for the track day and racing season.

First things first: Conditioning and base training. If you haven’t been doing your base training which includes core training and regular stretching then start by reading this article and implementing this into your routine.

Read Aaron's article on core training and stretching

As a coach, the biggest problem I see is the “too much too soon” syndrome that effects all of us. I say all of “us” because we are not professional athletes paid to train and we all have limited time to train. That’s why there is infomercial after infomercial to provide us “quick results”, “no effort at all”, “twenty minutes a day” and so forth. Yep, the fast food mentality. It’s just like trying to lower your personal best lap time another 20% in one lap, it’s not going to work. It will most likely involve pain and injury, just like trying to get fit too quickly. Proper fitness takes time. Notice I said “proper” fitness. No matter what your current level of fitness, to properly get to the next level, it will take you weeks, months or even up to year to regain or improve your fitness. Too much too soon usually results in connective tissue injuries so make sure that you do not try to compress 8 weeks of training into 3 weeks.

By mid-January, paid professional racers are already beyond their preparation phase (see previous article) and are entering their first strength cycle to bring their fitness up for racing level in less than 8 weeks.
This means that not only do these pros have to be strong enough to wrestle 200hp+ bikes around the track they must also have the endurance to keep going for 45 minutes. But for club level racers and track enthusiasts, the spring riding season will start in late March and April which means we still have time to get ready for the season. So we will work on our base, core and conditioning in January and February. Yes, we’re referring back to the previous article again.

But we also need to be working on our endurance as well.

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