My high weeks were around 16hrs, average would be somewhere between 10 - 12, just depends on how long my long bike it.
Low weeks, 3-4hrs, I have a couple of these during the season to recover and relax.
2013 year to date: average 19.5 hours, min 12.2 hours, max 26.5 hours. That’s honest S/B/R time, i.e. if I stop at a traffic light, to tie a shoelace, to pee, etc., the clock stops. Sort of OCD about that…
Averaging 30 hours a week for the full year is probably the upper tail of the bell curve for elite endurance athletes. Your coworkers are obviously including some dubious exercise: lawn mowing, housework, vigorous texting, etc.
Some of your co workers remind me of that “Biggest Loser” guy who did Kona a few years ago.
He also trained 30 hours per week.
BIG HINT for the OP:
You do NOT want to win this ‘competition/initiative.’
Would you want your boss to find out that you were training 30 hours per week, even if you were a top performer? The first thing that will go through ANY boss’s mind, even nonselfish ones, is “wow, if he can perform like this at work while working out 30 hours per week, I wonder what he could do if he spent those 30 hours adding to his work education or experience or productivity?”
If you’re going to participate, you want your number to be low, like 30 minutes per day max. Seriously! You really can’t get anywhere but in trouble by doing better and broadcasting it in public. I know the initiative sounds like a motivational tool, but it’s really aimed at the sedentary - for the active types, it’s just going to give another excuse for someone to think negatively about your work commitment.
(Yes I know this is an incredibly negativistic view of the workplace, but I’m really a huge optimist and am a very honest person. It’s just that I’ve seen situations of well-meaning things like this get scrutinized in ways they shouldn’t when Mr. Joe Average Work Colleague suddenly appears to have superstar levels of extracurricular time commitments that are broadcasted in something like this.)
BIG HINT for the OP:
You do NOT want to win this ‘competition/initiative.’
Would you want your boss to find out that you were training 30 hours per week, even if you were a top performer? The first thing that will go through ANY boss’s mind, even nonselfish ones, is “wow, if he can perform like this at work while working out 30 hours per week, I wonder what he could do if he spent those 30 hours adding to his work education or experience or productivity?”
If you’re going to participate, you want your number to be low, like 30 minutes per day max. Seriously! You really can’t get anywhere but in trouble by doing better and broadcasting it in public. I know the initiative sounds like a motivational tool, but it’s really aimed at the sedentary - for the active types, it’s just going to give another excuse for someone to think negatively about your work commitment.
(Yes I know this is an incredibly negativistic view of the workplace, but I’m really a huge optimist and am a very honest person. It’s just that I’ve seen situations of well-meaning things like this get scrutinized in ways they shouldn’t when Mr. Joe Average Work Colleague suddenly appears to have superstar levels of extracurricular time commitments that are broadcasted in something like this.)
I don’t agree, I’m in the UK and work for a major bank, ‘citizenship’ as we’re calling it is very high on the company’s agenda. In the wake of the banking crash charity work and having a human face to banking is now seen as very important.
We’re doing an around the World challenge where you log training/racing distance if you’re doing an event for charity - Its actually now in my performance agreement to do things for charity. Needless to say logging triathlon training puts you a the top end of the spectrum. It was well known before this challenge how much I worked out, running to work, hitting the gym in lunch but now I’m happy I get to use my training for my performance agreement, my boss is happy at how I make the team look and his boss is happy at how I’m making the department look.
win win
I’m a 60 year old AGer that mostly does sprint & Oly tri’s, 5K’s and a HM once/year.
I average just at 4 hours/week based on my logs. That’s what I would refer to as “moving time”, spent actually swimming, cycling and running. It doesn’t include driving to the pool/beach/park, changing clothes, pumping bike tires, warming-up, cooling-off or stretching afterwards.
Mark
BIG HINT for the OP:
You do NOT want to win this ‘competition/initiative.’
Would you want your boss to find out that you were training 30 hours per week, even if you were a top performer? The first thing that will go through ANY boss’s mind, even nonselfish ones, is “wow, if he can perform like this at work while working out 30 hours per week, I wonder what he could do if he spent those 30 hours adding to his work education or experience or productivity?”
If you’re going to participate, you want your number to be low, like 30 minutes per day max. Seriously! You really can’t get anywhere but in trouble by doing better and broadcasting it in public. I know the initiative sounds like a motivational tool, but it’s really aimed at the sedentary - for the active types, it’s just going to give another excuse for someone to think negatively about your work commitment.
(Yes I know this is an incredibly negativistic view of the workplace, but I’m really a huge optimist and am a very honest person. It’s just that I’ve seen situations of well-meaning things like this get scrutinized in ways they shouldn’t when Mr. Joe Average Work Colleague suddenly appears to have superstar levels of extracurricular time commitments that are broadcasted in something like this.)
I don’t agree, I’m in the UK and work for a major bank, ‘citizenship’ as we’re calling it is very high on the company’s agenda. In the wake of the banking crash charity work and having a human face to banking is now seen as very important.
We’re doing an around the World challenge where you log training/racing distance if you’re doing an event for charity - Its actually now in my performance agreement to do things for charity. Needless to say logging triathlon training puts you a the top end of the spectrum. It was well known before this challenge how much I worked out, running to work, hitting the gym in lunch but now I’m happy I get to use my training for my performance agreement, my boss is happy at how I make the team look and his boss is happy at how I’m making the department look.
win win
I’m not saying everyone will criticize you for it, but make no mistake - when some of your colleagues (might not be your boss, but it very well could be) see how much you’re training, how much fitter you are than them, and even how productive are at work, they’ll tell you it’s all good with admiration, but you will not be able to avoid the background thoughts of “so if this guy is so fit, is he really giving work its all?”
Stuff like this can get you down the road at unexpected times - I NEVER broadcast my triathlon commitment/racing performance (it’s not great, but not terrible) and have gotten nothing but big thumbs up from all work colleagues and bosses. For years. Then one promotion came up, and even though I got it, one concern raised was how serious I was at triathlon and if I could handle that AND more job responsibility and family. And it wasn’t in a good way, although I was lucky enough that it didn’t break the deal.
FWIW though, i fully acknowledge that other life commitments like KIDS or even MARRIAGE tend to have far bigger career consequences, spoken or unspoken, than triathlon.
Do you work with Captain Canada? Based on his training plan, I would bet he approaches that kind of weekly time. Definitely requires multiple workouts per day though…
Based on the responses so far, I am at the low end with only about 8 hours a week in the winter.
I would really question if some of my co-workers were logging 30 hours a week of exercise.
Off season @ 6-8 hrs because I can’t seem to get any real rides in with the weather. When training for an event, 14-18 avg some weeks up to 21. This is real time start watch, stop watch SBR. I don’t log anything that is not SBR.
Based on the responses so far, I am at the low end with only about 8 hours a week in the winter.
I would really question if some of my co-workers were logging 30 hours a week of exercise.
I would really have to call BS on the co-workers IF they are saying that they’ve basically gone from
zero hours to 30 hours in a few weeks. I guess it could happen but not very likely.
Off season @ 6-8 hrs because I can’t seem to get any real rides in with the weather. When training for an event, 14-18 avg some weeks up to 21. This is real time start watch, stop watch SBR. I don’t log anything that is not SBR.
I actually don’t have weather issues where I live (norcal) but I have serious time issues, meaning it’s impossible for me to ride during daylight hours due to work/family.
Best single move I made for training this winter- get really good at indoor bike training, and make that a real focus instead of an alternative to outdoor rides. (TrainerRoad has been my best friend, 6-8hrs/week.) It’s a different mindset (no scenery, so you have to find substitutes - I use objective TSS goals and movies as a good substitute), and takes getting used to (static aero position, nonstop pedaling), but it’s been awesome, especially with all the objective data you get from powermeter and/or Trainerroad.
I’m hoping my newly acquired Vasa will be just as effective - I think it will be but I literally just got it so verdict’s still out as to whether I’m going to improve a lot with it (as a crappy swimmer with low-volume without the Vasa, it’ll likely be a good outcome.)
10-12 in the summer and about 6-7 the rest of the year. I don’t know how you guys do 15-20 hours.
2 hours per day is 14 hours per week which is 728 hours per year. I am usually a 15 hours per week person, which works out to 780 hours per year. This includes bike commuting for around 8 months per year.
Other than that I am on the 2 hours per day program with one day per week in the zero to 60 min range and another day per week in the 3-5 hour range. Business travel weeks tend to be 10 hours and bigger IM training weeks 17-20. Usually 2-3 weeks per year at 22-24 hours where there is a day off work and a mini training camp going on.
This time of year about 5-8. During the season about 12-16. I would probably peak about 18.
10.8 over the last 365 days, includes some time lost due to injury. I run and cycle and xc ski, no swimming, I average 8-12 hours, which seems like a lot to me.
10-12 in the summer and about 6-7 the rest of the year. I don’t know how you guys do 15-20 hours.
How much time do you spend in a car per year commuting. Winter I spend 15 min per day in a car TOTAL. Summer zero. The rest is on the bike. I chose to work for less pay in a city where I can ride most places, so that I don’t have to spend my life in car…lifestyle choices.
We are averaging
15-20 Monday-Friday
Long ride on the weekend or brick one day average 6 -7 hours
Long run and open water swim other weekend day 3-4 hours
Total 25-31 hours depending on where we are in season. Off season is usually 15-20 hours total for 4-6 weeks.
We are averaging
15-20 Monday-Friday
Long ride on the weekend or brick one day average 6 -7 hours
Long run and open water swim other weekend day 3-4 hours
Total 25-31 hours depending on where we are in season. Off season is usually 15-20 hours total for 4-6 weeks.
15 hours per week is 780 hours per year. 20 hours per week is 1040 hours per year.
As a point of reference, elite Nordic skiers do 900-1000 in a very good year, soooo, not calling BS on what you are saying, but asking for your totals to corroborate the claimed 15-20 average (by the way, the average can only be one number it can’t be a range). I’m not trying to police it, but I hate it when people over inflate things. So can you add up your weekly training for the last 52 weeks then divide by 52 to give the actual average?
Dev
6-8 hours per week during the winter, 11-13 hours per week the rest of the year.