Sunday, September 27, 2009

Long cycle

... I've been doing long cycle all last week. I need it to participate in Latvian Cup in November. Yes, we have a long cycle event for women in Latvia :)
I proved to myself again that I love to do long cycle. I like it much more than snatch.

I've done it before, too. We already had a long cycle competition this year. I took the third place with 104 reps (with 12kg)... 1st and 2nd place holders did 114 reps each. We all could do more, but time was over. So I decided to check how much reps can I do now... I wasn't doing LC since March...

And here are my results:
First day I took 8kg, 12 kg and 16kg KBs and made a long set of 20 reps with 8kg + 15 reps with 12kg + 10 reps with 16kg + 15 reps with 12kg + 20 reps with 8kg (it was one set without rest). It took me about 15 minutes.
Next time I decided to take 12kg and make as much as I can without time limitation. I did 65 reps with right hand and 55 with left (I droped the KB because my palm was too sweaty). It took me about 13-14 minutes...

Now I have to increase tempo to make same 120 reps in 10 minutes instead of 14... Or I can take 16kg KB and make 60 reps whitch will be counted as 120 points (one rep with 16kg is counted as two reps with 12kg in the competition). I guess I will try to increase my reps with 16kg and try to make 30+30 or more... I still have a month to go (comps are in Nov.7th).

Wish me a good luck ;)