Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.
Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast.
Five or six days per week mix these ele- ments in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense.
Regularly learn and play new sports.
This year, I’m going to try something I haven’t done before… racing bikes. You say, “but Eric, don’t you do triathlons and duathlons and stuff?” To that, I say, yeah, but it’s not really racing bikes. You can’t draft, there’s no paceline or peloton, it’s you and your bike, an individual effort. I want to try racing a road bike with other people around. It looks fun (until someone crashes).
So on November 1, I’m going to do a Team Time Trial at the Tour de Gruene, with my buddy Rich (who has no blog… so I can’t link anything to him. we’re working on that). Lance rode this last year, and I think he’s coming back this year, so it’ll be awesome to see that. I just hope we can maintain about 22mph average for the 27 mile distance… we’ll see!
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