It’s not often I get to write a blog post like this, but this will be a short celebration of the fact that I had learned my lesson last time I tried to increase my work capacity and workout density. I applied those lessons and as a result I managed to smoothly move into my [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Work capacity'
Lessons learned: getting work capacity right!
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Training
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Lessons learned: workouts to suit your body
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Training
Anyone who read the post about my workouts yesterday will have read that I’ve finally admitted defeat and adjusted my workouts back to something that is better suited to me. Today I’m going to write a bit more about making my workouts fit for my own body and how I’ve learned about my own body [...]
Training frequency, rest and fatigue
April 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Training
How often to train and how to ensure that we do not adversely suffer from fatigue, both muscular and of the central nervous system (CNS), is of vital importance to anyone who designs and implements their own training programs. A personal perspective Managing fatigue has become important to me as I have increased the cardio [...]
Lessons learned this week: the menstrual cycle and making workouts more challenging
November 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Training
As I sit here writing this, I’ve just got out of the gym. I’ve got tears running down my cheeks and I’m feeling depressed. In fact, I’ve been crying on and off since the second exercise in the workout. This isn’t because I dropped a weights plate on my foot (though that would seem a [...]
Increasing work capacity
November 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Training
I need to increase my work capacity. I’d like to achieve the following: Be able to eat more; Be able to go for bike rides next summer without worrying how they will impact on my next workout; Do extra bits of fun workout (like mucking about in the gym with the sandbags) without ruining my [...]
