Brussel Sprouts
Dryland is the Brussel sprouts of your training diet
-Paul Marchese
Truer words were never spoken about training for speedskating, and unless you have perfect technique (and who does?) you need regular platefuls. I had some today in fact, I don’t like it any more now than I did at the first mouthful, but I like what it does for me a whole lot.
If you are a person who understands things visually, here is a quick visual example of what Paul means-
If you want to do this:
Do a whole lot of this first:
Thanks to my training buddy & friend Marco Bucci, for being the example in both pictures here. We have eaten more than a few servings of Boris’ secret “St. Petersburg Brussel sprouts” together, at least the scenery from the dinnner table is pretty nice.
Filed under: sweat
You know Andrew, I so get my fill of Sprouts a-la-Marchese all summer long. It’s really hard when salt is added! But, for the sadist in us all, we go back for more and more until our muscles explode! It’s the yin-yan of skating, without one, you cannot have the other. Dryland sucks, but it’s something we all must endure to get better. Although, I must say, your dinner plate view is much nicer than the view we eye-spy every week…
andrew
sugarhouse park, the 1.3 mi. torture-rack for [us inline speedskaters] hill workouts! 105 vert. per lap may not seem much at first, but damn that one hill is STEEP…lol!
yes, that photo was taken today in Salt Lake’s Sugarhouse park, now you know our secret dryland location… this summer we ran & bounded & low-walked & crossed up that hill until we fell over & lay in the grass like dead things…
the wide angle lens in my camera makes the hill look much flatter than it is, it can make ya hurt on the umpteenth trip up it…
Since I wrote this post, I have been having the “I’m Popeye the sailor man” theme song going through my head, but I can’t think of anything that rhymes with “brussel sprouts” for a few lines of additional lyrics….
One brussel sprout won’t tire you out.
but
eat a plate and you will skate
better
down a bushel and your tush’ll
???????
“…I’m strong and I’ll tire you out,
’cause I eats me sprouts, I’m Andrew the “flying” man!!!”