Originally Posted by
Velocirapture
A question for the enduro's who lift (any input from sprinters welcome, too, of course)
i'm struggling to schedule my lifting day with my bike days. I have found including lifting in my training has made a big difference already, so I will keep it in the schedule, but need to prioritise the hard-effort bike days over the lifting days.
Ha. I think if I ask Quinn about this
one more time, he's going to snap. I'm really struggling with it.
Originally Posted by
Velocirapture
My current programme is:
Monday - rest day.
Tuesday - coached session (big gear - 2-4" over race gear). 2:30 - 3h, content varies depending on time of year, but a hard session
Wednesday - 1h speed endurance intervals (on the trainer)/ 2h mountain bike ride similar effort overall
Thursday - 2h30 coached session (88" gear), also a hard session. lots of flying 500s..
Friday - Was my lifting day, before we started motor-pacing on a saturday..
Saturday - motorpacing. (warm up behind the bike, and then 2 x simulated points races of ~15 min each.) - i wont cope with this after a day of lifting.
sunday - 2-3h road/ mtb session, lighter effort.
Any thoughts? at the moment i'm thinking Sunday, with a proper recovery spin later after the motorpacing, or maybe wednesday, but possibly not so ideal after big gear day..
My first reaction is to lift Mondays, take Friday off.
Here was a typical week for me for most of this year so far:
Mon: lift
Tue: 1.5hr road (half of it at race pace)
Wed: lift
Thu: 2hr track session (interval-ish)
Fri: lift
Sat: 3hr fast road ride
Sun: off
Recently added a 4th day on bike, so a) cut back lifting to 2x, but b) not sure where to put them. I've basically just moved my off day to Friday, been doing track intervals Sunday. This keeps lifting Mon-Wed, but ideally I could space them out better (lift Mon-Thu). I may eventually double up somewhere (Thursday).