What are your all’s training workouts for uni, or if not for unicycle howdoes your workout incorporate unicycle skills?
Evertime I ride it’s a workout! I ride 80% endurance MUni and 20% distance 36er-ing. That combines training, a great workout and fun all in “ONE”.
I just go out and ride, really… and all you gotta do when you’re riding is push the pace a little, and you’ll get faster! Sometimes I’ll just start going on only a 20 mile ride, and it’ll end up being 50 by the time I get home, or something. I’m not usually going hard the whole time, but a good 2/3 of the time I’m going as hard as I can sustain, I suppose. I ride my road bike, too, which I think is pretty essential (at least it is for me) for getting that whole-leg burn that short cranks and a tiny gear ratio don’t seem to give me as much of. Mostly, all I do is just stuff that’s fun, and I push myself every now and then when I’m doing it… that’s all it really is, anyway. I’d probably be stronger if I trained more/more regularly/harder, but I’ve tried, and I don’t have the discipline to keep anything serious up for more than six or eight weeks. :-/
I ride everyday
The key is daily riding of 4-5 miles. Make the route challenging. I ride up hill, on bridges, sidewalk next to beach. Forget the tricks because there is no value in exercise.
No particular workout except perhaps warming up and stretching – before and after cycling.
I alternate between unicycle and bicycle. Right now, bicycle is actually more of a workout, although unicycle gets me sweatier from lack of breeze.
I don’t know what tricks your doing 
I do strength training four days a week and I use unicycling for an aerobic workout. My strength training consist mainly of push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and lunges for the legs on alternating days.
I don’t do any distance riding, just a little street and trials. For me trials can be extremely exhausting. I probably don’t do it often enough so my endurance is not the best.
I unicycle and run for cardio, but at the gym, I do strength training. I do the leg press, especially, because that works a lot of the hill-climbing muscles.
Also, core strength and back strength. Otherwise you’re liable to get all out of proportions, and hurt yourself.
And yeah, if you think tricks don’t work you out, you’re not doing them well enough. It utilizes most every muscle in your body.
Yoga and other stretching for flexibility, plyometrics and karate for cardio, and some dumbbell work, pull ups, and push ups for strength. This is in addition to any unicyling that I do. I try to do as much distance riding as I can in hilly areas on my 36 to work on both leg strength and endurance. I like lots of variety in my excerises to keep things interesting. Parkour is an amazing total body workout, but due to my shabby knees, I don’t get to to it anymore.
Well, i get out on my uni as much as possible and find that a great work out, apart from that i ride my road bike both on the road and when the weather is crap on my indoor trainer, i also surf and bodyboard.
i dont excercise. i like being fat sometimes lol (not sure how but meh) but if you class trials, general riding and occasional parkour as excersise than i take my first statement back. i do strech before that now though because i killed my legs completely lest weekend and the pain lasted 4 days, and i could barely climb stairs at all.
I usually don’t train, just ride about 5 miles or so every day from commuting.
Currently I am training.
I am using roughly the training plan from here with a few alterations - I’m doing probably longer rides in terms of time at weekends - the intensity possible on a unicycle is less high than a bike.
Roughly works out-
Monday - commute 8km + 1 hour hill loops
Tuesday - commute + 1 hour 15 unicycle hockey (cross training)
Wednesday - road bike 1 hour interval training + a bit (35km or so)
Thursday - commute + something else - either more hills, or 1.5 hour muni night ride (cross training again)
Friday - commute + nothing else at all (rest day)
Saturday & sunday -
1 day some kind of short but hard exercise - yesterday I did a 7km run
plus a long ride
3 weeks of increasing amounts, followed by one chill out week, repeat until the event (with the last chill out week being the week before the event).
Joe
I cross-train for my ultramarathons with my unicycling. Both in my base mileage commuting to and from work, and in the form of long rides to build endurance. Long rides have ranged from 26-65 miles, and in a couple weeks I’ll be setting out on a 100 mile ride.
That said, yesterday I discovered the limits of cross-training for ultramarathons by unicycling. My endurance, aerobic fitness, and strength were up to the challenge, but on this 100K run I found that I was not ready for the sheer pounding my legs took as compared to shorter (50-60K) runs. I was in a state of pain for the last half of the run that I haven’t experienced when I train by running alone.