Workouts
Since this is all about sharing information, I'm letting everybody know that if they would like to take a look at/use my workout, feel free. I would post it here but the table messes up so bad that I cant even tell what the workouts are, much less somebody else. If you would like you can email me at dyer@ion.chem.utk.edu and I will send it to you. A little bit about this paticular worktout: This workout is Build 1 Phase (3-4 weeks), so it depends on where you are in your season, but after this there are Build 2 (3-4 weeks), Race (2-3 weeks where you would race your B and C races), Peak (1-2 Weeks where you race your A races) then transition. At the transition phase, you could start your season over with Prep, Base 1 and Base 2 etc, but whats nice is that an extended season could go something like Transition, Back to Build 1, Build 2, Race, peak, and you could possibly even repeat that one more time. These terms might not mean much at the moment, but I can post more on these in later blogs. If youre hesitant or not sure, just ask me to send the schedule to you and the workouts are all perfectly clear (more or less). Especially if you are flying by the seat of your pants right now, in which case any regular training schedule would help. The most important thing is to get your race season mapped out and get your training in sync with it more or less. As far as this blog is concerned suffice it to say that you start the training with low intensity/high volume (base 1) and end it with high intensity/low volume (peak) just to give you an idea of where this schedule is (in the middle more or less i.e. medium intensity/medium volume).Note, though, that its important in all the phases that every third or fourth week is a decrease in volume AND intensity, serving as a recovery week. If I figure out some way to post it on here I will. Until then, you can email me if you would like it. I have it set up such that you could use a heart rate monitor, but if you dont, you can also make crude approximations as to which heart rate zone you are in. Thats all for now, hopefully we'll all be in touch soon. Cuidate!
Caleb Dyer