Let’s say a certain athlete is doing 1 session per week where they don’t sleep and then train again the next morning. Could the extra fatigue provide progressive overload benefit?
There is no benefit to missing sleep. You would be far better off skipping the next training session and getting proper sleep.
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Sounds highly unsustainable, unhealthy and a recipe for disaster outside of any cycling benefit (of which I can’t see any), namely the rest of your day to day life!
Nope. Need recovery and sleep. Not sleeping doesn’t make you fitter. The opposite.
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Hard no! Having spent 3 years sleep deprived until both kids truly started to sleep, I can confidently say that missing sleep is the worst thing you can do for progress (for me at least).
Took me about half a year to recover from that horror, but the ability to absorb training stress productively and recover is coming back now. The difference is simply unbelievable!
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Quality sleep is the single biggest thing to can do to recover and get stronger from training. Cut it short at your peril.
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I think this is one of those just because it sucks and it’s hard doesn’t mean someone will come out the other end stronger. To some degree I do think there is some benefit to practicing adverse scenarios so you don’t put yourself in a bad place mentally if not everything is going perfect for training or race day like bad sleep or arriving late with no warm up. But as a means to get better fitness always err on the side of sleep. Recovery as much as the training is the source of gains.
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Thats just called overload. Progressive is not part of that plan
I worked a 32 hour shift last week from Monday into Tuesday and even though I got through every workout on a schedule this week, I was suffering all week. Yesterday’s 5 hour outside endurance ride completely destroyed me. Recovery day today and tomorrow. I’m sincerely hoping I didn’t dig too deep a hole. Sleep is good…very good.
Whaaaat?
You worked for 32 hours straight without break or sleep?
We were able to take catnaps on our breaks which are about every 4 hours. #railroadlife