Ladies and custom training plans

[ellotheth]

@mafzal

how would I alter the plan. I.e. do I move the recovery week and complete it at week 3, and then continue with the plan as it was written for original week 3, and then 2 weeks later, redo the recovery week?

Yep. You take the work weeks as they are, and shuffle the recovery weeks around to get the work:recovery ratio you want:

Alternate Sweet Spot Base, Work : Recovery Week Layout

The following are some possible adjustments that can be made to the Sweet Spot Base plans. The goal is to shorten the number of “Work Weeks” between “Recovery Weeks”. It can be helpful for those who find the default 5 Work to 1 Recovery schedule too taxing. This may include Masters riders and anyone else looking to reduce the fatigue between recovery weeks. It adds one total week to the typical cycle and makes the full Sweet Spot Base a total of 13 weeks (instead of the default 12 weeks). …

Couple things to bear in mind:

• It’s not a given that 2:1 is always better than 3:1 for everybody over 50. It might be worth trying the regular plan to see how you go, and modifying once you’ve got a feel for how you recover.
• Plan Builder doesn’t handle manual changes to your plan very well. When you start shuffling workouts around, they become “detached” from Plan Builder, and you won’t be able to make some of the plan-level bulk modifications that are usually available (like changing the volume or changing the phase).

@mafzal

Also I’m not so sure why I have 5 weeks of on in Nov. ? anyone else see that on their plans?

Is it during a Sweet Spot Base phase? The Sweet Spot Base plans are normally 5:1 because they’re a bit lower intensity and (theoretically) don’t need quite as much recovery.