Originally Posted by simplyred
Colorado...
You want to know what muscle pain feels like?
Hold a 20 pound weight to shoulder height with one arm and hold it for 15 minutes..
Sit with your back against a wall and knees at 90 degrees for 15 minutes [without the chair obviously]..
Seriously... try those and tell me what your body "felt"....
I am assuming you CAN do those for that amount of time... I mean... you're CAT 4 right?
I'm not trying to knock you or anything... but like most people are wondering... are you pushing your body to its maximum? Maybe you're a CAT 1 and don't even know it....
Ok, so when you're holding (i mean i assume you can do it as well) that 20 pound weight at shoulder height, maybe it starts to ache, if you're tough, can you just keep it up despite the ache ("pain"), or is there a point when you are no longer capable of holding it up, despite your "pain tolerance"? That was more or less my point, despite ability to "push through the pain", there is a point when your body cannot go any harder than it is capable of. Holding positions like you talked about are static activities, the same sort of pain will not necessarily follow with a dynamic activity like cycling, maybe it does.