If you are new to it I wouldn’t go out every day. Maybe two days on a day off. It’s all about building up the kms really. Building up to couple of 50km spins on a weekend could set you up as well. Watch the gears as well. No point horsing big gears, better to have a handy gear that you can turn easily.
How can you do 30km? I thought ye were all in lockdown?
Just to maintain abit of fitness really. Tough for motivation at the moment with no matches to be aiming for. So I was thinking of trying to run a fast 5k/10k a week and try to beat it. I have set of weights at home so I tip away with a handy 20 minutes full body routine twice a day.
Thanks to you and @Bandage for your tips.
One 5k, one 10k. If you can get to a space to do a small bit of fitness work you’d be laughing — i wont quite call them sprints but you get my drift - 20 mins doing different length short runs at different speeds just like you’d do in a game
If you can manage doing shuttle runs as well as doing a 5/10k that will probably be more useful for maintaining the kind of fitness you need for hurling. 10+20+30m and back runs, 30 seconds rest in between each rep, 8 reps in a set, 2-3 sets.
That tactic of trying constantly to beat your previous efforts will probably certainly work but you’ll injure yourself trying to run too fast, even if you feel fit from hurling I’d leave it a month or so before trying a fast 10k, one quick 5k a week only as well,
It’s a completely different type of fitness, too much road running will leave you weak for hurling, shuttle runs on grass or sprint the length and jog the width of a pitch, I’ve seen Dec Hannon doing this in Mary I over the past few weeks,
I have fuck all weights at home. A set of 5KG dumbells and a single 7 kg dumbell.
I do per week -
1 day of core/squats/glutes/lower back shit
3 5k runs
2 days of sprints - 10 lengths of a soccer pitch at 3/4 pace, 10 50 yard sprints, walking the other 50 yards and then pyramid sprints from end line to the 18 yard line. Up to 8 and back down to 1
I would go for a 30 minute walk on my rest day and the day I do weights. I would also do a stretching/yoga session when bored/idle a once or twice a week.
Thanks lads, all good pointers.
@Big_Dan_Campbell I like your structure for a week. I must make up my own one.
It is a hell of a lot easier to exercise and motivate yourself to exercise when working from home too. It is a great advantage of this current pandemic. Up at 8am and either exercise or porter about before doing a bit of work.
Log off between 5 and 6 and then go do something. The commute can really knock the gra for exercise out of you and I do not have an arduous commute by any means
Last winter my father in law gave me a bag of slioters he had in the shed. There are around 50 in it varying from brand new o’neills ones to to shitty size four ones.
I went to St Annes park a couple of weeks back and spent about an hour just popping frees over the bar (and wide) from around 50 to 70 yards out for around an hour. It was a very soothing
Download the beep test on your phone and measure out 20m at the hurling field , goal line to 21yard is practically the same but the fields wont be marked now . Do that and do a couple of press ups and sit ups too .
Running is a mug’s game
A dream day.
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I have fuck all weights at home. A set of 5KG dumbells and a single 7 kg dumbell. [/quote]
You either have the weights or you don’t…
I’ve managed to fit both in
Nothing beats pucking a ball off a wall. I spent countless hours as a young fella doing that. I was blissfully happy.
Nice hours cycle just there. Went all full kit wanker too 
Do you work in town ?
Yes
And you live close to a segregated bike lane into town?
Sure a 30 minute cycle wouldn’t be worth a fuck to me.