I was a very extreme snowboader for 12 years. Took lessons when I was 10. Been to every single mountain in the north east. Was a big freestyle a’holic and was jumping roads, cars etc around my house on some back hills. Reason I quit and sold my Burton custom was because I simply got bored with it. I felt like I reached my peak performance at the time and wasn’t getting any better. Then I started getting heavy into quad racing from 16-19 years old and it got waaaaay to expensive to drive around and do 3 different races a week in the spring, summer and fall and then spend more money to snowboard.
I dont really do sit up’s. I do it ass back wards.
I lay down flat on the floor, arms fully extended holding onto the underside of a couch or sofa etc. I lift up my legs slowly and settle them down slowly just hovering over the floor and keep doing this until my stomach burns to the point I cant do it anymore. This personally works better for me then a actual sit up but everyone is different.
One of the things I found that helped reduce arm pump - use your legs more. Granted that was on a bike, not a quad- but same thing applies, I’d guess.
Grip more with your legs into the frame- maybe slapping grip tape on the frame rails might help (rips the crap out of your boots though, so try it with a crappy old set of boots first)- but the whole point is to be able to use your arms and legs efficiently the majority of the time, and still be able to manhandle the bike/quad when you need to. You’ll feel your arms get less and less fatigued, and you may even notice it in your lower back as well.
Other things to try- try a set of very hard grips- transfers the vibration even moreso than normal- forcing you to relax your grip more than normal- great to practice with if you’ve got an extra set of bars that you can swap on and off occasionally.
Either way- nothing beats good endurance/cardio from the start.
sadly, the same thing doesnt apply on a quad as on a bike. I used to ride dirtbikes before I decided to switch over and my sister still does ride so I ride her’s every once in a while. I can countless laps on her bike, where I would get tired with half the laps on my quad…just think about it…
on a quad you are fighting 4 times the width, twice the weight, you pick up 3 times the track conditions etc. I have a steering dampener on my quad but that doesnt help for arm pump.
As far as frame rails, I have pro peg nerf bars on my quad. The pegs are 4" wide…
I also have a anti-vibe steering stem on my quad, with a anti-vibe tripple fat bar clamp along with the steering dampener. I dont get alot of bad vibration but I still get enough due to my quad being a hybrid and having a dirtbike motor instead of a quad motor which have internal balance rs to reduce vibration.
Forearm excersizes with a barbell/dumbbell?
Tie a weight to a wooden dowell via a 3 foot string or so and roll it up and back down swotching rolling directions.
Also I’ve recently started xc skiing and its great for cardio and works your arms pretty decently since with every stride you push with your arms. I picked up a cheap used set of skis and new boots at play it again sports for like 90 bucks.
Edit: ^^^ what he said ^^^
That’s probably the single best thing to simulate the same beating that your forearms would take while riding.
jump rope, do it.
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I dont work out for shit. at all, and I dont eat right… yet I can survive a motor around Royal and I can run my balls off on the SX track at twister for 10 minutes straight.
I dont usually get out of breath, and I feel great after a ride, MINUS arm pump. When i ran quads, that fucking stiff ass YFZ thumb throttle was the death of me. Last lap I couldnt work the throttle at all. The twist throttle on the bike is a thousand times easier, and I feel like i have way more controll.
Just ride all the time, as much and as hard as you can on your track. You will rack up millions of laps, and it will become second nature to rip fast laps off, so you will start focusing on your body more and not the track or necessarily riding while your out there. Tell your self to loosen up, deep breaths in the air, loosen your grip and your legs, payattention to body position, not trying to over work the bike, etc. You will get in shape fast. That gives your body and brain muscle memory.
Come race day you can more than likely back it off a little and pay attention to the other riders and unfamiliar track layouts. the focus on body control and everything you learned on your track will now be second nature and you don’t need to focus on that, and 20 people around you and nasty rutted up tracks. The muscle memory will keep you intact and running strong letting you free your focus a little more and allow you to actually race.
Race the track and the riders, don’t race your own brain and your body. When you make mistakes on the track if your focusing on your body and shit, you will mentally beat yourself up and tense up and get tired.
you in good shape, just ride!
What do you want to run next year? I am srs, if you want me to leave my bike at your house or in the back of my truck, I will ride every day after work until its dark at your track with you to train! real talk.
You could just stop being a pussy and get on it and ride. Youll be sore as fuck the first few rides, but youll live!!
What’s stopping you from riding right now to practice? Best training (athletic or otherwise) is to actually do it.
thanks for the link man./
most of the pro dirtbikers and quad racers do jump rope.
problem is I am on a 2nd floor apartment lol
2ft of snow. My quad has 5" of travel when Im sitting on it…and actually 5" might be pushing it.
and my motor is on my bench getting a rebuild.
dude I have tried this. I use to do 20 hard laps on my track until I couldnt hold on anymore. kept doing it until I could ride all day as fast as I could, and I would be fine.
Then I would go to a different track and it felt like I was starting all over again. Every track is different. Even as much as different soil can either make or break arm pump.
dude like I told you 1000 times, you and your brother and whoever else are always welcome to come down and ride. I dont ride very much anymore because I have NO one to ride with…and when I do go riding, I dont have anyone (not bragging at all here) to my level to “pressure me” enough.
I was the 3rd place overall winner for 2 years straight in the quad Am class at royal mountain sx. My cousin was the 1st place winner. The last year I rode, at the awards ceremony I got promoted to expert the week after I broke my wrist. I havent raced since. That was in 05’. The rules state if you are a expert, and you take a year off you can drop a class down. So I will be starting off in the Am class again. I am no where near a expert level anymore as the quads got faster and new riders are in the gates. The year I stopped racing, was the 2nd year of the 450’s being out so they were just starting to hit the race tracks. I was running my 310, 250r against 400ex’s, some 450’s and mostly other trx250r’s.
I did race my Hybrid 2 years ago at diamondback, and I was 2nd into the first corner both races. Problem was, the 2nd lap in I was getting fatigued and started slowing down massively.
Word, count on it man. this summer we will ride alot! I only made it to the track twice last year myself. Mostly casue I didnt do any maintenance on the bike and it needed tires bad. I got the tires and I am good to go. this winter ill take the bike apart and go over it good and ill be ready.