So I have been reading about how long it takes to make gains from training. It looks like gains from endurance type workouts take weeks like 2-4 and speed type workouts take one to two. So I have a olympic race in two weeks and an IM in five. Yesterday I did my last workout that had any speedwork in it. In the last few months I did as much as I could without injuring myself. I have a few tendon strains that would benefit from some rest. I have got alot of stuff going on in the next month and not much time to train. Swim got neglected a bit in the last three weeks since a 5 k swim race. So I'd rather just mainly swim at noon outside in the sunshine. If major loss of fitness after the IM isn't a worry what is the harm of doing very little? I am figuring on mainly just working out when I feel like it and having fun for a while. I figure on the olympic being my A race for the season and it being a good hard workout prior to the IM.
this leads to the question if you are not looking beyond your last race of the season and it takes weeks to see the results of workouts and about three weeks to experience significant fitness loss what harm is there to doing very little for up to three weeks before the last race of the season?
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot
this leads to the question if you are not looking beyond your last race of the season and it takes weeks to see the results of workouts and about three weeks to experience significant fitness loss what harm is there to doing very little for up to three weeks before the last race of the season?
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot