Heavy Legs when climbing.

simonscan

Recently been doing a lot of sessions on the turbo with the weather been awful, sessions for endurance & strength/power, I would maybe do a session per day (Mon-Fri) each session been 1 hour long and hopefully try get myself out on the bike saturdays for a 40mile ride. I've felt myself getting stronger each weekend I've been going out, but today was completely different, my legs felt so heavy when I was climbing, it was like my rear brake was on and making it harder for me to climb hills, normally I don't struggle climbing hills but today was really hard, when I got home from my ride, my legs felt like lead weights. My fitness is quite good, my weight is 65kg.
I just can not understand the big change, have I been over training myself on the turbo? How can I resolve this problem?

phreak

Hard to base any trend on one ride. See if your turbo sessions are similarly poor next week. If they are then maybe you need to ease off a wee bit.

sloppyschleckonds

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jgsi

Unless you are training without a solid base and I dont think you are, your training load is unlikely to be causing anything akin or close to 'overtraining'.
Check your diet -- carb intake - not enough can cause heavy legs and too many of the wrong sort can also cause fluid build up contributing to a feeling of heaviness in the lower body... a for instance a huge dollop of pasta the night before in a possible attempt to carb load.. well .. that sort of thing has had detrimental effect on me in the past.

Just something else to consider, thats all

IShaggy

Not overtrained, just knackered. If you're building up your training stress then make sure you include adequate recovery into your training plan. 1 day off a week may simply not be enough in the long-run. Which is why a lot of people base their training plans around a 4 week mesocycle whereby they build up volume and/or intensity over 3 weeks, and then back off on the 4th in order to recover.