Originally Posted by
Sgt Mac
When I was in my twenties & thirties we could work out, or I would 3 on 1 off. That clearly isn't working out for me anymore. But when I do train i train as hard as i can, as I always have. But I have noticed that the soreness doesn't seem to go away after a few days. Am I just not giving my old body enough time to recover? But at the same time if I take 2-3 days off & wait for the soreness (lactic acid)to go away, it's like I took 6 months off.
Young people and professionals would probably call that over training
, if you get sore and it doesn't go away by the next day, then cut your workout back a little. What I do, is 4 days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday the Weekday workouts are fairly short, around an hour or so. The Saturday workouts are planned to be a little longer, right now they are shorter as well, only because when I switch from outdoor to trainer mode, usually around (My) Thanksgiving, I find that the switch is tougher then I thought it would be, so I scale back a bit. I will do the same thing at May two four weekend, when I officially switch back to summer riding mode.