Training has gone up the spout

disgruntledgoat

Fair enough, each to their own and all that.

I had coaches for a number of years, but I think I learned enough about what worked for me to take all the data I squirrelled away over those years and start working on my own programmes. I appreciate not everybody is as massive a geek as me though!

RoadMeridaBen

SBezza wrote:

danowat wrote:

Over trained? doubtfull, I rarely do more than 15hr's a week.

Danny, hours on the bike is not an indication of whether you can get overtrained or not, I know of guys who have become overtrained on 6-8 hours a week. If they have a real demanding job/family life/or other stresses and then hammer themselves silly in that available training time it is very possible to overtrain, the body can only deal with so much stress, and it can't tell the difference between life stresses and training stress.

Hence what I said on the TTF, training harder without thinking about the training might not be the correct thing to do (but that is another story).

I'd agree with that, I work as a plumber normally work 7:40 to 6 or later and if I was to train hard every night i'd be absolutely bollocked by the end of week one. I was working with the boss last year and wasnt finding training to be much of a problem 7-8 hours a week, but this year working on my own going up and down stairs all day, fetching tools from the van and in general just doing everything yourself is hard work. Currently struggling with 4-5 hours lol

Most days im falling asleep by 20:00 and completely drained by friday, so I cant imagine it would take much for me to reach the stage of overtraining
(Wish I could do 15 hours a week :P)

Nick Fitt

RoadMeridaBen wrote:

SBezza wrote:

danowat wrote:

Over trained? doubtfull, I rarely do more than 15hr's a week.

Danny, hours on the bike is not an indication of whether you can get overtrained or not, I know of guys who have become overtrained on 6-8 hours a week. If they have a real demanding job/family life/or other stresses and then hammer themselves silly in that available training time it is very possible to overtrain, the body can only deal with so much stress, and it can't tell the difference between life stresses and training stress.

Hence what I said on the TTF, training harder without thinking about the training might not be the correct thing to do (but that is another story).

I'd agree with that, I work as a plumber normally work 7:40 to 6 or later and if I was to train hard every night i'd be absolutely bollocked by the end of week one. I was working with the boss last year and wasnt finding training to be much of a problem 7-8 hours a week, but this year working on my own going up and down stairs all day, fetching tools from the van and in general just doing everything yourself is hard work. Currently struggling with 4-5 hours lol

Most days im falling asleep by 20:00 and completely drained by friday, so I cant imagine it would take much for me to reach the stage of overtraining
(Wish I could do 15 hours a week :P)

Yup, my working life and being a big family means I can only train during the week and a few hours Saturdays in the winter. This maxes my training out at 6.5-10 hours absolute tops at the moment. So far, all of it has been a mix of base miles, tempo and a turbo session.