Training Time / Overtraining

[Jono Waddell]

Please can someone help with some advice.

At what point do you start over training?

 

My training program is to ride 3 hours during the week (4 x 45min sessions) monday through thursday on a combination of indoor and spinning trainging (Sadly my schedule does not allow for during the week rides.

 

Spinning allows for interval training, and indoor is a steady ride at Average of 70% HR>

 

Friday is generally a rest day, and then  Weekend rides on Saturday or Sunday monring. Most of the time one of the days would be a 3hr plus ride. If i ride the second it would be a shorter approx 1 hour ride.

 

Total time 6-8 hrs p/week.

 

My concern with the program is, am i doing to much.

 

Any feedback anyone can offer would be apprciated.

 

Thanks

[bikemonster]

If you're a weekend warrior - as most of us on this forum are - overtraining is impossible.

 

 

 

What is entirely possible, and it has precious little to do with how much time you spend on the bike, is under-resting. The benefit from training comes between training sessions, when your body rebuilds after the intentional stress that you place it under.

 

 

 

If you do not give your body adequate rest time, because you're a career bod, or a parent, or studying or partying your ass off, or some combination of the above, you will be under-resting.

 

 

 

Simple rule: if it feels good, it is good. If you're feeling permanently shagged out, rest more. Which is not necessarily the same as saying cycle less.

 

 

 

James

[lazza]

greatlazza2009-11-29 13:40:21

[lazza]

bike master i like your sound advice