- Morning, Trainiacs.
Starting off today's endurance adventure
with a little bit of a...
I don't know why I did that.
A little bit of yoga.
I am getting so bendy.
- Hi, everyone.
Welcome to your weekly yoga workout.
This is gonna be a yoga flow specifically designed
for endurance athletes.
So we're gonna be working into the shoulders,
opening up through the chest,
as I'm sure we all kind of hunch over the bike
and also in our everyday life, as well.
Bring your chin to chest.
Draw your navel towards the spine, and drop your head down,
curling through the back.
And then placing that right foot
on the floor next to you,
toes pointing the same way as the fingers.
Your hands up and overhead.
Exhale, soften the shoulders
by twisting into that front knee.
Now, for some of us, if this is too much of a balance.
Thank you so, so much for sharing this practice with me.
- Thank you, Helen.
So Helen here runs HMF Yoga YouTube channel and hmfyoga.com,
and we have recently hired Helen
to create a weekly yoga workout
for all the Team Trainiac athletes.
Well, with us, by the time it's there,
it'll be the My Motive Training app.
By end of February, early March, 2021,
the app should be out.
And before summer, hopefully,
we should have all of her yoga sessions in here.
It'll be like, I think I hired her for 37.
It was a lot.
But over here is the really interesting stuff for today.
You know how quite often, your legs just feel really heavy
and you're not super motivated to get on the dreadmill?
Well, who is motivated to get on the dreadmill these days?
Or you see the pros when they're injured
and recovering from injury,
they are in this anti-gravity chamber
where the bottom half of their body is
in negative gravity or it reduces their body weight?
Well, that treadmill costs 20 or $30,000,
but we talked to Angela Naeth, pro triathlete
who has been recovering from Lyme disease,
and she has had really heavy legs as a result of that.
And some days she just isn't feeling it to go for a run,
so what she does is, we'll put a little video on
of what she's doing.
She goes and gets into this setup
that goes all the way around her treadmill,
and it takes the weight off of her body.
Now, coincidentally, right at the same time
as we were doing that podcast with Angela,
this company, LEVER reached out
and asked if they could send me a unit.
And I was like, "Hmm, I might as well give it a whirl."
So today we're gonna hopefully set this up
and see what it feels like.
I've literally never done anything like this,
de-weighting yourself for running.
So this isn't a sponsored thing.
They're not paying me to do this,
and frankly, I don't even know if I want to keep this
or if they want me to keep this,
but it's nasty outside in Canada.
You know when there are things in movies
where they put gas into a war zone to kill
or just do harm to people?
You can do the same thing with cold air.
The air is trying to kill you in Canada.
It's currently minus 12, and we call this unseasonably warm.
And one of the very best things that you can do
for your run performance,
your ability to not get injured is run frequently.
Instead of running two times a week really long,
if you had four runs a week with the same duration...
This seems right.
Connect the CamJam, that's fun,
into the front left islet,
and then run the pulley through the CamJam.
I just like saying CamJam.
Now how all these things work is
you put on these super good-looking shorts,
and then that's what holds you up.
Seriously good-looking man alert here. (groans)
There is nothing, and I mean nothing more attractive
than an individual putting on a pair
of really, wow, really incredibly snug shorts
that have little roller things off on the hips.
All right, am I right or am I right?
Bungee here has these white lines that go all the way down,
and these are eight-pound increment.
All right, let's give this a try-ski.
(machine beeps)
(upbeat rock music)
Whoa, whoa, moon boots, whoa, whoa! (laughs)
(upbeat rock music)
Well, well, get myself outta this.
Well, first impressions, mixed.
Well, for starters, it's still running.
It's not like it makes it wildly more engaging.
It's not a game changer like going from a turbo trainer
that's just like a winder magnetic resistance trainer
to a direct drive trainer on Zwift.
It's not like that.
I think most of the issues that I got are
here with the pants, the sexy pants, unfortunately.
So these here pants, how they work is they're thick.
They're not neoprene like a wetsuit.
These almost go on like a burlap sack.
They're stiff, and I think what's happening,
what's throwing me off is the setup of these pants,
however they're structured doesn't really relate well
to my biomechanics.
So I think what was happening was that these rolly things
on the side are pulling you up, which is what it's doing.
It definitely de-weighted me,
but I think, because this is so stiff and the pull is up
from the side, it's pulling my legs wide.
So legs wanted to go like this,
and then all of a sudden, I'm not running
in a normal running pattern.
And then to get myself into that normal running pattern,
I was having to contract the inside of my thighs,
which that was getting really tiring,
and what I was finding is that all of a sudden,
a whole bunch of new nicks and niggles were starting
to pop up because I was so activated in ways
that I don't normally activate on the run
and I was being taken out of my normal running gate.
When you get taken out of your normal biomechanics,
that's not a good thing.
That's a pretty big recipe for injury.
Well, let's say you're somebody who has heavy legs
for some sort of medical condition,
or you are injured, so you do need some sort
of a de-weighting, get back to running sort of program.
I think that something like this, whether it's this system
or another system, are going to work.
Damned thing about it is that these are all quite expensive.
This is $1,100 U.S.
I didn't pay that for the entire treadmill.
All of the other systems that I've seen are pretty similar.
That anti-gravity, the really high end one
that you see pro triathletes using,
that is like 20, $30,000.
If you wanna try this, just make sure
that it's something that you can return
if it doesn't end up working for you.
I thought that this was really gonna be
something good for me.
Theoretically, I think the structure,
the concept of it is good, but just how it works with me,
I can't use it, not gonna use it.
But to not leave you hanging with nothing to do,
let's say you are somebody who's looking
at a system like this and you're like, "Oh, geez, well,
"that doesn't sound very good,"
but you do wanna get back into running
but you wanna do so safely, how do you do that?
What I would recommend as a run durability program
where you run as frequently as you can every single day
of the week that you can that you don't feel any nicks,
any niggles, any injuries whatsoever,
but start with really, really small runs,
like 10 minutes for the first week.
And then the next week, maybe 11 minutes each run,
and then each run after that, 12 minutes,
and you gradually just build up frequency
and time really, really slowly.
So, well, I suppose that's that.
Do what you want with that.
Maybe it'll help.
Maybe it won't, but let's end this off on a good note.
If you are interested in some good yoga sessions,
you can check out Helen's channel right here.
This is, well, this is the session that I did yesterday.
It's really good.
The channel's good.
It's not super yoga-y with all the spiritual stuff.
It's just good quality mobility.
Check it out.