Weight Training Lower Body During "Down Time"
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Weight Training Lower Body During "Down Time"
Do any of you weight train your lower body during your macro rest/recovery phases?
I just finished Carmichael’s TCC program (I’ll post my thoughts on that when I have more time). According to the program, I'm due for a 6-week rest/recovery period. I’m done racing for the spring and plan to do 4-5 more races clustered in mid-late-August.
Other than some less intense riding over the next 6-weeks and catching up on some upper-body work, I’m also thinking about adding lower body gym work since I have not done that since early March. In other words, treat this 6-weeks as a mini-winter for training purposes.
Thoughts appreciated.
I just finished Carmichael’s TCC program (I’ll post my thoughts on that when I have more time). According to the program, I'm due for a 6-week rest/recovery period. I’m done racing for the spring and plan to do 4-5 more races clustered in mid-late-August.
Other than some less intense riding over the next 6-weeks and catching up on some upper-body work, I’m also thinking about adding lower body gym work since I have not done that since early March. In other words, treat this 6-weeks as a mini-winter for training purposes.
Thoughts appreciated.
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I know, it seems contradictory. My response is that it's not really six weeks of rest (as in, sitting on the couch), just six weeks without the structured intervals. You're still supposed to ride. Additionally, my thought (without really knowing) is that weight training puts different stresses on the legs compared to cycling, but I may be way off on that.
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There are a ton of threads from the last 6 months on weight training.
FWIW, I weight train full body year round. There's always a way to fit it into the schedule.
FWIW, I weight train full body year round. There's always a way to fit it into the schedule.
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**** it - lift heavy that way when you grow up you can have legs like ole rkwaki...
No response needed from me, most of you know where I stand on this issue...
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Okay, I was just checking.
I think you can do a solid 4-5 week cycle of lifting in there and have it help your results in the late season races!
I think you can do a solid 4-5 week cycle of lifting in there and have it help your results in the late season races!
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Do any of you weight train your lower body during your macro rest/recovery phases?
I just finished Carmichael’s TCC program (I’ll post my thoughts on that when I have more time). According to the program, I'm due for a 6-week rest/recovery period. I’m done racing for the spring and plan to do 4-5 more races clustered in mid-late-August.
Other than some less intense riding over the next 6-weeks and catching up on some upper-body work, I’m also thinking about adding lower body gym work since I have not done that since early March. In other words, treat this 6-weeks as a mini-winter for training purposes.
Thoughts appreciated.
I just finished Carmichael’s TCC program (I’ll post my thoughts on that when I have more time). According to the program, I'm due for a 6-week rest/recovery period. I’m done racing for the spring and plan to do 4-5 more races clustered in mid-late-August.
Other than some less intense riding over the next 6-weeks and catching up on some upper-body work, I’m also thinking about adding lower body gym work since I have not done that since early March. In other words, treat this 6-weeks as a mini-winter for training purposes.
Thoughts appreciated.
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Thanks all.
Brian, that's a question I've been asking myself. Particularly in the first 4-5 weeks of TCC, I don't think I pushed myself as hard as I should have. In my last cluster of three races last week, I did feel that I had declining power coming out of corners and on surges. So I'm pretty sure that I peaked a couple of weeks ago, but what I didn't expereince is some flaming crash where I just knew I had nothing left, so I probably didn't take TCC to its full potential. And that probably answers my question about weights v rest.
I have to be off the bike this week anyway because of work. After that, I plan to gradually get back into it, including weights for about 4 weeks, then take another easy week, then either re-start TCC or some other structured, interval-based program to prepare for mid-August. I may even follow rkwaki's advice and just keep on lifting.
Brian, that's a question I've been asking myself. Particularly in the first 4-5 weeks of TCC, I don't think I pushed myself as hard as I should have. In my last cluster of three races last week, I did feel that I had declining power coming out of corners and on surges. So I'm pretty sure that I peaked a couple of weeks ago, but what I didn't expereince is some flaming crash where I just knew I had nothing left, so I probably didn't take TCC to its full potential. And that probably answers my question about weights v rest.
I have to be off the bike this week anyway because of work. After that, I plan to gradually get back into it, including weights for about 4 weeks, then take another easy week, then either re-start TCC or some other structured, interval-based program to prepare for mid-August. I may even follow rkwaki's advice and just keep on lifting.