Anyone training w/o a rest day?
Depends what you mean as a “rest day”. I have recovery days that involve only 1 or 2 workouts at a low intensity. However my coach is good at monitoring exercise stress and anjusting the weekly workouts according to recovery rates etc.
there is no rest for the wicked 
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There are a lot of wicked people on this forum, too.
I’m with gavnunns. I train 1 or 2 days at low intensity. It keeps the hard days in perspective.
Ask Paulo what he thinks of rest days.
Rest days - highly overrated.
And Wicked? I’m not wicked, I’m just drawn that way.
I usually do some easy days but don’t take days completely off very often.
I’ll take 36 hours off - work out am and then not until the next night, call it a 1/2 day off.
When training for my last two HIM, I generally did not have any days completely off. But, one or two days a week, the only thing I would do is swim, and those workouts would be primarily recovery workouts compared with the running and cycling workouts. Now, I have days completely off from training, but I’m not really training for anything and I’m swamped at work.
I’ll have to agree with gavnunns and parkito (interestingly, the three of us all have the same coach). I used to take a rest day each week when I was training on my own, but it’s really not necessary with a well designed schedule. Recovery days, however, are very important.
-C
i think it depends where and who the person is mentally, and physically. some people recover better with absolutely no activity related to tri. sitting on the duff all day really helps them recover.
others recover better with an ez spin, or low jont/jog, noodle in the pool, etc. just a little something to get the blood and body moving, breathe air, etc.
whatever the case may be, i believe this to be individual. none of us are the same, and none of us are robots.
for me personally, it just depends. right now i’m recovering better with low and easy activity. i change–sometimes a total break is best.
He’s alive!!!
I haven’t seen you post for a while, figured you were deep in the depths of preparing for another IM. 
For the record, I went 30 days straight in one stretch last year, pre-Mike. So, it was a really good fit to sign up with Mike for me. However, also for the record, I have found that I do the same volume as before, but with more intensity, yet I am less shelled at the end of the week with Mikes’ schedules as compared to my own. So much for the thread questioning the value of a (good) tri coach. Oh yeah, I also run and bike faster if that’s important.
I can’t take rest days. I get more fatigued. For me, a rest day is a day of lighter training.
Plus every day that I don’t train the guy who beats me at my next race was training. So I train.
anyday I just swim and/or do weights only is a rest day. Which translates to maybe once a week. But usually once every two weeks during base period. During final 6-8 weeks before my Big Show I take a mandatory recovery swim/weight day once a week and 1 complete day of picking my ass every 2 weeks…
I frequently swim on my ‘rest’ day. Sometimes I go for a hike on it too (an easy hike…mostly so my dogs get some exercise). I also do what the othe poster said sometimes, workout Sunday AM, then again Monday night, so I have from 10AM Sunday AM until 7PM Monday PM off. I know that as I get closer to IMF. I guess I take about 1 out of 4 rest days as a complete rest days. As I get closer to IMF I think I’ll be taking more of the days as rest.
Form = Fitness + Freshness
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He’s alive!!!
I haven’t seen you post for a while, figured you were deep in the depths of preparing for another IM.
For the record, I went 30 days straight in one stretch last year, pre-Mike. So, it was a really good fit to sign up with Mike for me. However, also for the record, I have found that I do the same volume as before, but with more intensity, yet I am less shelled at the end of the week with Mikes’ schedules as compared to my own. So much for the thread questioning the value of a (good) tri coach. Oh yeah, I also run and bike faster if that’s important.
Yeah, I was typing that stuff about recovery as I’m sitting here after an 80/12 brick. IMFL is in less than 6 weeks!
Congratulations on your podium in Wisconsin. I was there in 2005 and didn’t think the conditions could get much worse (95 degrees, humid, wind), but I think the 2006 weather was worse. Nice job.
-C
My rest days are my dog days. I work at least one long walk with my dogs every week and that’s all I do that day. They love it, a two hour walk in the hills, much of it off leash.
Karma
I played 18 holes of golf yesterday, is that a rest day? I guess so…all my rest days are non-tri sports, sailing, skiing, golf usually
Rest every Sunday. I need one day off mentally and physically. It do my long brick on Saturday and really enjoy my Sunday off. Granted, I do go surfing or bodyboarding on Sunday, but that’s very light exercise for me.