I was just thinking of some of the challenges that we have as age groupers fitting training in. By end of Oct, it is easy to just "give up" and take a break. My personal observation is that we all need a break, but at the same time a lot of negative progress can happen between Nov 1 to Jan 1 that people have to spend the next 4 months undoing.
What we often need a break from is not so much the physical load of training, but the mental load of moving life out of the way too get to the start line of today's workout/s and repeating that for weeks or months on end.
I've seen a lot of "maintenance" value coming from low time overhead workouts. 10-15 min runs are better than nothing. Leaving the bike set up on the trainer and hopping on it even for 20 minutes can be done quite easily in the context of life and that's enough to get 10 min of intensity in. The 10 min run is great because depending on where you live you don't need a shower.
But quite often guys say, 'I only have 20 min, why bother?". But 7x15 of jogging can add up to almost 2 additional hours of running per week. A Kenyan covers a marathon in that time...you and I mau get an additional half marathon of "hardening" the legs for when we need to get back in the swing of things.
But I think the biggest value is that it gets us to the start line. Sometimes I start than 10 min jog...it takes me 5 min to get going and I say, 'do I really need to work on xyz next or can I make this run 25 min and add in a couple of hard mile repeats. Suddenly it turns into a "real workout".
My main point posting this is getting out the door. We all get 168 hours per week...surely skimming off 2 hour out of that has more up side than downside.
What we often need a break from is not so much the physical load of training, but the mental load of moving life out of the way too get to the start line of today's workout/s and repeating that for weeks or months on end.
I've seen a lot of "maintenance" value coming from low time overhead workouts. 10-15 min runs are better than nothing. Leaving the bike set up on the trainer and hopping on it even for 20 minutes can be done quite easily in the context of life and that's enough to get 10 min of intensity in. The 10 min run is great because depending on where you live you don't need a shower.
But quite often guys say, 'I only have 20 min, why bother?". But 7x15 of jogging can add up to almost 2 additional hours of running per week. A Kenyan covers a marathon in that time...you and I mau get an additional half marathon of "hardening" the legs for when we need to get back in the swing of things.
But I think the biggest value is that it gets us to the start line. Sometimes I start than 10 min jog...it takes me 5 min to get going and I say, 'do I really need to work on xyz next or can I make this run 25 min and add in a couple of hard mile repeats. Suddenly it turns into a "real workout".
My main point posting this is getting out the door. We all get 168 hours per week...surely skimming off 2 hour out of that has more up side than downside.