I ran a volume check today to see what TR thought of my current workout schedule.
I got this:
Which would give me three workouts a week. That said, my current schedule includes several other workouts that this volume check is taking into account. Specifically my current schedule is:
- Monday: Rest day
- Tuesday: 1 hour of bike intervals at lunch, lifting in the afternoon
- Wednesday: Rest day
- Thursday: 1.5 hours of bike intervals at lunch
- Though now we’re in race season so I do velodrome races in the evening
- Friday: Dynamic endurance ride, normally 45mins (tbh this is mostly just because I want to ride outside sometimes)
- Saturday: lifting in the morning
- Sunday: 1 hour of bike intervals in the afternoon
E.g.
The current schedule works nicely for me. The snag that I want advice on is if and how I should shuffle my schedule around based on the volume check. Tuesday and sunday are fine, but I can’t add a bike workout to saturday (that would be too much workout time cutting into family time) and I I can move gym times a little, but I can’t go to the gym on friday (my trainer doesn’t work on fridays) or sundays (they’re closed on sundays), so I’m kind of pinned in. Really the only reason I can get the volume I’m currently getting in is because I can do the intervals over lunch during the week.
Any thoughts or advice? I’m making decent progress with my current schedule so I don’t mind just sticking with it, but I figured I’d ask what other people thought about it. I don’t want to just start hacking up the schedule just because, so any advice or perspective would be appreciated.