On The Pegs 56
I could tell from the start of the year how thin your face was that you ’ ve been working on diet and endurance and stuff . Tell me about your workout program and stuff .
Yeah . Last year halfway through the year I started working with the same trainer Steward had . He got me on the right track to show me what I needed to do to be better . But things didn ’ t work out with the trainer , so we split ways . This year I ’ ve been doing everything on my own . Just been really focused on trying to eat clean . I ’ m not going all out . I ’ m not eating cardboard , but I make sure I eat good and I make sure that all I drink is water . I make sure throughout the week I try to really focus on hydration and stuff like that . As for weight loss , I think the biggest factor of that was just spending a lot more time on the bicycle . Just pedaling and working in those zones . Doing a lot of zone workouts on the bicycle .
What are zone workouts ?
You do a zone training on your heart . You ’ ve got five zones in your heart rate . I don ’ t know if I ’ m the best to explain , but the first zone is your warmup zone . The second zone is the zone where you build your hear . So the second zone is mostly where we train . Most of us guys that are doing the zone training will train in zone two . So that ’ s endurance , right ? Yes . So zone two will build up your heart . Anything above zone two you ’ re basically breaking down muscles , you ’ re working it too hard . Which zone two is really easy . People think you get on a bicycle and you go and pedal as hard as you can for an hour and you ’ re doing great , but really you ’ re not . You ’ re really just hurting yourself there . So , really you need to learn your body and learn what your body needs . I think that has been a bigger factor in how I ’ ve progressed over the last year . So before that I was just pedaling a bike for an hour as hard as I could and I didn ’ t really know what I was doing . It ’ s really a science . There ’ s a lot to it .
Remember when I came to your mom and dad ’ s house and we did the story on the Baylor boys , you and your brother rode together all the time . Do you guys still ride together or do you practice by yourself ?
Most of the time , I ’ ve been here the last year so I ’ ve been riding by myself a lot . I bought my own house . I ’ ve got 50 acres at my house . I ’ ve been riding there a lot . Then I ’ m about ten minutes from the Schol ’ s there , so I go and ride there about once a week . Other than that , I just mostly ride by myself or whoever around , if there ’ s people who want to ride . I ride with Steward when I can , it ’ s just you never