Pain in shins when riding

The shin muscles, gastrocnemius, and the soleus should all be trained and conditioned if you want to optimize your endurance while riding.

Exercises that you can do to aid this:

Barbell Calf raise(hold the bar on your back, stand on a block [gatrocnemius] of wood w/ your heels hanging off, lower as far as you can, and then go up on your toes as high as you can. repeat until you feel like screaming).

Seated calf raise (rest a barbell on your knees while sitting [soleus] down, or use a machines made for this purpose. the movement and duratin are the same *B^) ).

Inverted Calf Stretch (wrap a rope or velcros strap around your [shins] toes/ballof feet area. Attach to a dumbbell, plate, or stackable machine. Pull back from weight resistance, flexing and contracting the muscles in fron of the shins).

Just some suggestions.

Or perhaps ditch the guy..............

Here is an idea:

Some years ago I had the same problem, I thought it was a binding/boot problem (they did not seem to fit very good together, so I guessed it was a pressure point problem)

well, if you are riding consistently then shin-splints could be the problem. consistently is the operative word there though. shin splints occur through repetitive stress to the bone and muscle. exercisizing those muscles is important for many reasons... a way to determine shin splints would be if you get the *same* pain from *any* impact type of activity. run your fingers along the tibial crest (edge of the shin) where it connects with the muscle. this area should be really sore and hurt when you apply pressure to it.

if this is happening through occasional riding it is probably something else. i know that when i used to ride any bladdered boot, i would get a similar pain in my shins by the end of the day. went to non-bladdered boot and it went away. just my 2 cents.