Training Programs
"Practise makes perfect"
Before starting this training you have to do a maximum test first. Your personal trainer will help you do this test. Per exercise / muscle group you will determine the maximum weight you can handle.
Main muscle groups are: legs, breast, back, stomach. In BMX sometimes the stomach musles are not training well. That will give back problems and will give you disadvantage with starts!
Take the percentages mentioned below from your personal maximum and start training with those.
Extensive interval-endurance training with weights:
| Heaviness of the exercise: | 50 - 60% of max. weight |
| Intension of exercise: | 15 - 20 reps. per serie (15 - 30 sec.) |
| Relief period: | 45-90 seconds |
| Number of reps: | 20 - 30 reps |
| Effect of training: | General aerobe stamina Local anaerobe stamina |
Intensive interval -power training with weights:
| Heaviness of the exercise: | approx. 75% of max. weight |
| Intension of exercise: | 8 - 12 reps. per serie (15 sec.) |
| Relief period: | 90 - 180 seconds |
| Number of reps: | 10 - 30 series |
| Effect of training: | Maximum power Explosive power General and local anaerobe stamina |
Doing this kind of muscle training, my experience is that in a period of 2 ½ months, riders doing this training, gained the following % in power (1st maximum test, compared with maximum test after 2½ months):
- Legs, power improved with 20%
- Breast, power improved with 35%
- Stomach, power improved with almost 100%
- Back, power improved with 35/40%
E.7.1 EXAMPLES - RUNNING ITP
E.7.2 EXAMPLES - CYCLING ITP