G.O.A.T.

Who do you think of when I say the Greatest of All Time? Ali? Ricky Carmichael? Tyson (lol)? no! You think of Sir Robbie Rob himself…or at least you should be…ok, ok only my Mom, Sister and Wife. Just give it some time and all the rest of you will soon be saying "Sir Robbie Rob? He's the Greastest of all time!".

Becoming the GOAT isn't as easy as you may think. It is going to take a lot of work, mental and physical, and a ton of heart. *Starts to play "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (or if you prefer you can mentally picture the CKY version of the song)*

The jokes aside, The past couple of practices that I have had have been pretty much crap. I think I have hit a wall when it comes to improving my skills. So I have started to read up on workout routines for mx riders. With everything I have gathered I have come up with my own workout routine which I will start…yesterday!

Here is a breakdown of what the workout will consist of.

• Riding 4 times a week. When I am in shape this will be moved up to 5 times a week. The main thing I am going to take away from this is time on the bike. The more time I will spend on the bike I will develop better riding skills, comfort, and better balance.
• To help with recovery of riding this much I will need to get back on track with my diet. I will also look more into a drink called EnduroxR4 which is supposed to help with rebuilding muscle protein for quicker recovery times.
• 2-3 practices I will be running two 45-60 minute sessions at 100%. Prior to these I will do a 5 minute stretching sessions then a 15 minute session to warmup.
• On other days I will be concentrating on other TBD drills.
• I will be keep a journal of my practices to reflect on the happening of that day. I will be posting excerpts from those journals here.

That will cover the riding portion of the routines. I will also need to be doing some exercises to better myself when I get on the bike. The goal of the cross training is to have fun. If I don't have fun with it I am going to loose interest in it. To make the training more fun I am going to use a points based system. Something like this:

Run 1 mile = 1 point, cycle 3 miles = 1 point, Mt. bike 2 miles = 1 point, swim 1/4 mile = 1 point, rock climb 1 hour = 1 point, airdyne or row 1/2 hour = 1 point, 1 set tennis = 1 point, rollerblade 2 miles = 1 point, 1/2 hour weights = 1 point

For the first couple of weeks I am going to work towards 50 points a week. That should be like running 50 miles. *puke* This will also be logged in the logbook/journal.

I will give it a few weeks and see how it goes. If anyone out there wants to join in with me, shoot me an email.

The workout routines has taken peices of other peoples workout and made into my own. Thanks to texasoffroad.net, 5 Magic MX School, and google for the information I used to compile this.