I’m trying to make red light/green light work better for me and I’m curious about any tips you might have.
I work as an arborist and horticulturalist and, most of the time, I don’t include anything from work in my calendar (pruning trees, spraying weeds, etc.). Occasionally, there’s something I do which I know will impact my training. For example, Wednesday, I spent all day climbing up and down a 12-foot ladder with gas-powered pole hedge trimmers, pruning a 20-foot holly. I put it in my training calendar as 25 sets of lower body strength training, approximating the number of times I’d been up and down. I don’t know how else to quantify it.
This type of stress can be very difficult to quantify. We certainly understand that it is still stress, though.
I think the easiest way to deal with this would be to just listen to your body when you have these kinds of days at work. If you feel knackered and you know it will affect your training, you can always manually substitute your workouts for something easier or even take a day off to rest.
Workout Alternates can be a good tool to use in these kinds of instances.
That said, I’ll pass along this info to the team that works on RLGL and see if they have any other suggestions!
In another post, Nate said that you should only include strength work when your sets go to failure. I understand the desire to add your other stressors, and I struggle with that too, but I don’t think adding these as strength training is the way the system was designed (right or wrong).