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Old 08-25-21, 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Toadmeister
sounds like you got some sexual issues there….

Is this through experience?
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Originally Posted by CyclesNWeights7
Just curious how everyone likes to recover after extra long rides, intense races, or just overall very strenuous activity?

Personally, I’m a huge advocate for foam rolling, loosens the back and everything else, and I use a massage gun to loosen up my quads, hams, and calves almost nightly. Closest thing to deep tissue work I can get on a very regular basis.

I’ve also recently started seeing a sports chiro, but that’s not really indicative of a “regular” recovery routine as I’m still treating a few things there and haven’t gotten to a “maintenance” schedule so to speak……

Of late, I have been on a preventative protocol. I skip out on long rides.
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Old 08-25-21, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul Barnard
Of late, I have been on a preventative protocol. I skip out on long rides.
What if it were a short but intense race, and the body is kind of fried from it?
Lol there’s always a need for recovery, trying to find a way around your answer
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Old 08-25-21, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by bargo68
A day or two off the bike.
ahhh yes, the most needed but least fun method
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Old 08-25-21, 05:36 PM
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Coffee and food shortly afterwards. Sometimes on hot days a cool shower. A hot shower on cold days. Seldom to never do I stretch​ or foam roll although that could always change one day.
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Old 08-25-21, 09:25 PM
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A little bump of coke and some shots of Everclear and I am rocking and rolling within a couple minutes...lololololol
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Originally Posted by veganbikes
A little bump of coke and some shots of Everclear and I am rocking and rolling within a couple minutes...lololololol
Mr. sheen, is that you?
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Originally Posted by Siu Blue Wind
Is this through experience?
Ask your mother Trebek!

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Old 08-26-21, 04:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Troul
Mr. sheen, is that you?

Needs more hooker.
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Old 08-26-21, 04:53 AM
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Originally Posted by CyclesNWeights7
Just curious how everyone likes to recover after extra long rides, intense races, or just overall very strenuous activity?

Personally, I’m a huge advocate for foam rolling, loosens the back and everything else, and I use a massage gun to loosen up my quads, hams, and calves almost nightly. Closest thing to deep tissue work I can get on a very regular basis.

I’ve also recently started seeing a sports chiro, but that’s not really indicative of a “regular” recovery routine as I’m still treating a few things there and haven’t gotten to a “maintenance” schedule so to speak……
A shower
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Old 08-26-21, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by CyclesNWeights7
What if it were a short but intense race, and the body is kind of fried from it?
Lol there’s always a need for recovery, trying to find a way around your answer
Who sez? I don't need to do anything special to "recover " from a very intense 25 mile ride. I'm a hell of a lot more tired after a bit less intense 130 mile ride.
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Originally Posted by Toadmeister
Ask your mother Thebek!
Oh I was thinking of asking YOUR mother since it's obvious you've been in and out of that hallway before.

I didn't know you are Korean! My family is American.
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Old 08-26-21, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Troul
Mr. sheen, is that you?
I am winning so probably yes.
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Old 08-26-21, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Milton Keynes
I guess I don't really do anything. Once I get home, shower, of course. Drink a lot of water, get something to eat, sit on the couch with the TV on and computer on my lap catching up on Bike Forums.
What? No squats, push-up, and wind sprints? It seems to be the thing to do these days.
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For me, a glass of wine, a big fat joint, and fun with the wife if she is recovered enough.

Seriously, I do some yoga and just pay attention to getting enough rest. If I do an extra long ride one day,I might only ride a couple miles the next to warm up and do lots of stretching-yoga. I am not competing with anyone, so I do what I feel like doing. I don't need to make sure my STRAVA numbers are worthy.
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Originally Posted by RH Clark
For me, a glass of wine, a big fat joint, and fun with the wife if she is recovered enough.

Seriously, I do some yoga and just pay attention to getting enough rest. If I do an extra long ride one day,I might only ride a couple miles the next to warm up and do lots of stretching-yoga. I am not competing with anyone, so I do what I feel like doing. I don't need to make sure my STRAVA numbers are worthy.

OK, now I'm stuck trying to figure out what Yoga Strava would look like.
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Originally Posted by Iride01
Recover? Are you sore or tired? I'm usually ready to ride again if someone ask to go.

I drink plenty of fluid while cycling and seldom loose even a pound maybe two after a 4 hour ride in the heat. I also drink not quite a liter of recovery mix after every ride. I'm finding that chocolate milk works very well. I'm using chocolate soy milk.

Other than that, what's to recover after a ride? I mow the grass, walk 3 to 5 miles with my wife and pretty much anything else.


Or are you just asking what we do to relax?
I take it you are not 60 yet. When you get there you will understand.
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Originally Posted by rsbob
I take it you are not 60 yet. When you get there you will understand.
Almost 70, lots of fairly hard miles for many decades without stretching, foam rollers, massage, supplements, chocolate milk, pickles, Yoga, etc. Maybe I'm just lucky.
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Originally Posted by Trakhak
Almost 70, lots of fairly hard miles for many decades without stretching, foam rollers, massage, supplements, chocolate milk, pickles, Yoga, etc. Maybe I'm just lucky.

The guy he was quoting was discussing a 4 hour ride of undefined intensity. I'm 60, and i do rides that are sometimes a fairly hilly 8 hours. I'm definitely tired and sore after that, but I'm with you on not doing all that "recovery" stuff. I need a shower, food, about a gallon of water over several hours, and a good night's sleep.
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Originally Posted by phughes
What? No squats, push-up, and wind sprints? It seems to be the thing to do these days.
No, I only do that after 5 minute rides.
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Originally Posted by RH Clark
For me, a glass of wine, a big fat joint, and fun with the wife if she is recovered enough.
Seriously, I do some yoga and just pay attention to getting enough rest. If I do an extra long ride one day,I might only ride a couple miles the next to warm up and do lots of stretching-yoga. I am not competing with anyone, so I do what I feel like doing. I don't need to make sure my STRAVA numbers are worthy.
where it's legal, right? wink wink cough cough
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Originally Posted by Trakhak
Almost 70, lots of fairly hard miles for many decades without stretching, foam rollers, massage, supplements, chocolate milk, pickles, Yoga, etc. Maybe I'm just lucky.
Congratulations on being way above the norm. Must be good genes. Too bad about the chocolate milk
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Originally Posted by rsbob
Congratulations on being way above the norm. Must be good genes. Too bad about the chocolate milk
Plenty of chocolate ice cream and chocolate in bars and M&Ms and such, just no chocolate milk.
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Originally Posted by rsbob
Congratulations on being way above the norm. Must be good genes. Too bad about the chocolate milk

After about a zillion of the stretch vs. don't arguments, I've come to the conclusion that some of us, including myself, are just not stretchy, so none of that stretch/yoga stuff does anything but waste our time and make us uncomfortable.
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What? No squats, push-up, and wind sprints? It seems to be the thing to do these days.
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