Paul Rosenquist

Yeah, the last two day I have managed to get a bit more than 50km’s done on the water again! That feels so good. I have done weird excercises for 4 hours a day the last week and results are good. Improving flexibilty, strenghtening small muscles that are neglected otherwise. Peter, the physio he had this fun thing of putting me on a test bike for 3 minutes while gradually increasing the resistance. Than directly after grab a 40kg barbell and do a series of what we ‘complex styrke övning’. That is a endurance strenght excerise that get the muscles burning and the hart pumping. Chinlift, snatch, squat snatch, goodmorning, standup row x 6.

So we are in this really nice little gym and excercise hall on Bosön where all the physios come with their patients and do their series of stretch and whatever excercises. Hardly anybody breaks a sweat since its a place for rehab. Hardly…there is me, sitting on that damn bike and snatching the barbell while standing in a puddle of sweat. Surrounded by gymnast girls, baseball players, 100m sprinters and whatever. They probably dont even know what sweat is ans just look more or less disgusted att me. Peter who has a karate background is also more into muscles and the art of repairing them is sort of fascinated about eagerness to sweat and have a pulse over 160bpm. It is pretty easy to explain. All the hours this winter spent beating the crap out of rowing machines in our sub zero° gym mostly alone or with David at the drark rowing club has really paid of. Latest lab test show that my workload without producing more than 4Mmol lactid acid has improved a lot and put me a mere 20watts behind Lassi for example. Feeling this fitness slipping away due to not being able to keep up the training is frustrating. Thanks to being able to bike well I hope it is kept to minimum. Better stop whining! We are back on the water now!
On my way to club right now with a session with Henke. He is gona kill me I’m sure….sitt straight! Rock your back…look up! It is blowing 18m/s and I see some snow flings flying by the window every now and than…lovely.

C ya!