24th June ‘25: strength

Short post today (edit – which I failed to actually post – better late than never…)

Having never done any strength training – yes, really, I’ve literally never been in a gym other than for cardio or the spa… I’ve been researching the best strength exercises for cyclists. Here are three YouTube videos which I’m going to base my programme on over the coming couple of months. I’m going to do everything at home, and all I have are some resistance bands so this will largely be about doing body weight based work.

And I failed on day 2 of my 8 week programme – so already need to catch up. It turns out that unless I know exactly what exercise or activity I’m doing, I struggle to muster the motivation to do anything… so hopefully I’m clearer now on the strength work and one less excuse to hold me back.