help for cyclists looking to improve

So you ride a bike and you’re look­ing to improve your horsepower. Even if it’s just to keep up with the local group ride.

If you don’t plan on spend­ing massive hours on the bike or you work long hours, I have a sug­ges­tion to improve your riding.

Cross­fit.

I per­son­ally do cross­fit at night after work and ride my bike in the early morn­ings (when I can get outa bed)

What is Cross­fit?? — Well here’s a little movie I made of last years cross­fit games in Sydney.

These are just some of my fel­low Cross­fit humans at Schwartz’s Cross­fit Mel­bourne.

In a nut­shell — tra­di­tional gym, is purely about sculpt­ing your body, lift­ing heavy things and look­ing good whilst doing it. Bar­bell curls aplenty, pos­ing down in the mir­ror, creep­ing out cute chicks in the mir­ror etc etc.

Pretty much the same shit — dif­fer­ent day. Yeah you get endorphins and kill an hour but even­tu­ally most people fall off the wagon and often, most aren’t even doing the move­ments correctly.

Enter Cross­fit — you learn­ing func­tional move­ments whilst get­ting strong (and flexible).

These include mobil­ity (which most cyc­lists lack), gym­nastics, power­lift­ing and olympic lift­ing. As an adjunct to that, you  sculpt an amaz­ingly fit look­ing body whilst improv­ing your strength and flexibility.

For the crit’ cyc­list or a track sprinter — It’s like Shane Warne and Liz Hur­ley — It fits.

Here’s the video from last years Cross­fit Games in L.A which I also went to. Proper rock­star sport — loved it.

If you’re keen to try it out — google cross­fit gyms in your area and I guar­an­tee you find one. This sport is on a growth cycle of epic pro­por­tions and soon, it’ll be the norm’ for lift­ing heavy things.

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