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order to maximize your results it is important to carefully schedule your training
throughout the week. If you have a coach, he/she has probably already done this for
you so try to stick to their schedule as closely as possible. This also means if you
miss a workout, it may be more detrimental to try to squeeze it in later in the week if it
means you might overload your body and injure yourself.
The
most important day of the week to schedule in is your rest day. Everyone needs at
least one day off per week to allow your muscles to regenerate and get stronger. If
you chronically skip your scheduled day off to do "make up" workouts, you will
be more likely to "burn out' or get injured or sick. A small proportion of
people actually do best by having two rest days per week. It will likely take a few
training cycles before you are able to decide how much rest your body needs.
When
you are first starting out on your training, doubles (two workouts in one day) will take
some getting used to. As such you should avoid doing two or more doubles in a row.
Try to arrange your week to have Tuesday/Thursday or Wednesday/Friday as the days
you do doubles. ***Please note brick workouts are considered one workout and doubles are
workouts done at different times of the day.
Next
you want to ease yourself into muscle overload. This usually means ensuring at least
one day between strength or speed workouts. Later in the season you can do these
back to back but try to limit consecutive hard training days to once a week.
Lastly,
try to avoid triples (three separate workouts in one day) unless you have years of
training under your belt and know your recovery cycle very well.
Good
Luck and Happy Training |
