A message from ARC’s Fitness & Nutrition Coach, Adam Radican: The riding and racing season is winding down. Don’t get trapped by the holiday feasts and sweets, thinking you will have enough time to burn it off before spring. Your competition is training smarter and harder, so should you. What’s the least expensive and most beneficial performance upgrade you can make for street or track riding? That’s right, YOU! Athletes improve their knowledge, technique and conditioning in the off season and maintain their elevated performance throughout the active season. If they don’t, they’re already behind. Improving your knowledge, awareness, skills and riding habits will make you a safer rider, regardless of speed. Expanding your capacity for focus and concentration greatly improves efficiency within your ‘Situational Awareness Zone’ and your ability to make the correct decisions, quickly AND smoothly. There are many drills to improve visual concentration and motor skills dexterity. These skills enhance your riding input smoothness and ability to feel for [and respond to] available traction. Combined with your other senses you become more in ‘tune’ with your body as well as your motorcycle. Important for street riders and key for racers. However, the ability to sustain a high level of awareness, control and feel declines with fatigue to the point of making errors that can cost you championship points or your life. Core body strength, conditioning, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility, are critical to maintaining feel and control as you want to keep weight on the handlebars to an effective minimum. A tired rider is will improperly grip and leverage the handlebars to support themselves, making them less sensitive to feel and slow to react. Also, tunnel vision gets worse when a rider is exhausted. Elevated fitness levels means increased concentration on simultaneous events, patience to maintain proper focus, the ability to make good decisions and remain efficient and smooth at the controls. Being physically fit not only allows you to be more focused and relaxed for peak performance, but allows you to remain focused for longer periods of time. Would you like to finish a ride, track day or race as fresh as you started and without diminished performance or safety? What else can help? Diet! Proper diet can not only increase the effectiveness of your fitness program and speed up the results, but it can also increase your level of sustained threshold performance. Not everyone processes foods the same so once this is figured out, your body will respond like you wouldn’t believe. Train smarter, faster. Ride smarter, faster! The sooner you get on a training program the better your street or track riding experience will be. Now is the time to review your performance levels of 2013 and take action for 2014. Weights? Bicycle? Run? Yoga? Boxing? Karate? All have benefits. If you don’t have a plan to get you to the next level I challenge you to do so. Street riders, anything is better than nothing! Track day riders, get a jump on your improvements for next season and increase your bragging rights (Oh, and looking like a shredded badass on a sportbike earns a few paddock points)! Racers, season after season you want to be able to look back, know and show that you did everything that you could to be your best. This also is important to sponsors. Quality of dedication is measured by what you do when your only audience is you. Be your own role model. -Adam Radican ARC Fitness & Nutrition Consultant |Owner, Radican Fitness | WBFF Pro Competitor & Sponsored Athlete | Fitness Model | Certified Personal Trainer (10+ years) facebook/Adam.Radican.79 Need a trainer? Contact Adam at 4radican@gmail facebook/ARC.Trackademics Get on track. Stay on track.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 21:44:54 +0000
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