- Morning, trainiacs.
Here we've got what would otherwise be a
big, juicy . . .
tender . . .
set of swimming.
But it's rest week, so we've got to make
a little bit of changes, and today I'm gonna give you
an idea of how to change the course of your week
throughout rest week to actually still make you
faster as rest week is happening.
(upbeat electronic music)
Whoa. Damn.
That was the infamous
Gerry Rodrigues Tower 26 mambo set.
3900 hundred yards in an hour fifteen.
I need rest after that.
Back at the cavern, we'll talk about
how to structure a rest week.
This is gonna be smart. Feels good.
Before we get into that, check this out.
(steady rain falling)
Anyone got room on an ark in Winnipeg?
So let's talk about how I'm approaching
a rest week right now based off of what we've got.
Here is my typical training week.
On Monday, easy swim.
Tuesday, hard bike, followed by a brick run.
Wednesday, hard swim, strength in the evening.
Thursday, hard swim in the morning, hard run at night.
Friday, easy bike in the morning,
little bit of mobility work after.
Saturday, hard swim in the morning,
followed by a long hill run.
Sunday, long bike, followed by a brick run.
So let's talk about what I'm completely omitting,
and just taking right out of the training
week when it comes to rest week.
Now, I'll preface all of this by saying
when it comes to rest week, you don't wanna
just bring everything right down.
Ideally, what you wanna do is bring down the volume,
and I've talked about this a lot of times,
but you bring down the volume and keep a lot
of the intensity there, so your body's still remembering
how to turn over really quickly.
But you're bringing down certain aspects of the work-out,
whether it's the number of intense reps that you do,
or you're cutting a little bit of the warm-up
and the cool-down so that the overall volume comes down.
If you're into TrainingPeaks and the TSS,
an average week, and a big week
what I've built up to lately is around 870 . . .
890 . . .
thereabouts total TSS over the course of a week.
That's not including strength,
because I don't know how to include strength.
But on a rest week, it's gonna
come right down to somewhere around 450.
Here's how we do it.
So we'll talk first about what I'm going to take out.
On Tuesday, I took out the brick run.
Today, Wednesday, taking out strength.
Tomorrow, Thursday, I might take out the swim,
depending on how I'm feeling.
So I'll leave that like a half.
We won't quite take that out.
But here's what we do that's really key.
So let's say this easy swim here, for example,
has typically somewhere around a 15-minute warm-up,
and a 50-minute main set,
and that's it, let's just call it that.
I might take that 15-minute warm-up
and chop it all the way down to five minutes.
The swim this morning would be about the same thing.
The warm-up for this morning would
be somewhere around 15 minutes.
The main set would be somewhere around 75.
Well, I took that warm-up
and knocked it all the way down
to about five minutes.
The hard bike that happened yesterday,
normally there are four sprints.
Yesterday, because it's rest week, I changed that,
and instead of doing four, I did two.
Similar to that, with the hard run, instead of doing
a total of about 3k of really intense running,
I'm gonna probably back that down
to somewhere around 1k of intense running.
And because there's intense running there,
in that case I'm not gonna cheat on the warm-up,
on the dynamic drills to get ready for that
because it's really hard running,
I wanna be really ready for that.
So I keep the warm-up, I keep the dynamic drills,
and then I chop the intensity.
So I've still got intensity, you see it everywhere here.
I'm keeping the main sets, I'm keeping some sprints,
I'm keeping some track running.
It's just that volume in certain areas is coming down.
The Friday easy bike, instead of being 60 minutes,
probably be somewhere around 45.
On Saturday, the hard swim, instead of being upwards
of 90 minutes, it's gonna be more like 55 minutes.
And the hill long run, instead of being upwards
of 75 minutes, it's actually gonna be about 45.
Long bike, instead of being four hours, it's gonna be two.
And the brick run, instead of being
35 minutes, it's gonna be about 15.
So you can see that how to deal with a rest week
is that it's not outright rest.
And you do that because you want to maintain
that speed as we're building up to a race,
you always want your body to know how to move fast.
What's gonna typically happen in a rest week
is in the first couple of days,
because you're not stressing your body to a limit,
you're not stressing your body to the max,
you're decreasing the amount of cortisol,
stress hormone that gets pumped into your system.
So in the first couple of days, you might be like,
"Why do I feel so much worse here on rest week?"
But that's just because your cortisol levels,
which is giving you that flight-or-fight,
like, really twitchy "Okay, I'm ready
to go here for the next work-out."
It is starting to dissipate and all of a sudden
you start feeling lethargic, but by the end
of rest week you should come back
to a more normal level and you'll be ready again.
Also, something that you should know is that the reason
that this isn't changing immensely, and I'm not taking
outright days off is because, even during my on weeks,
I have a couple of days, Monday and Friday,
which are already focused on recovery.
So I even have recovery built-in to my main training block,
so that means that when I'm in a rest week,
I don't have to come down nearly as much
because I'm still staying fresh.
I'm not pulverized right into the ground.
Now this is all highly individual and this depends
on week by week, block by block, on how the season goes.
These aren't hard and fast rules.
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Later, trainiacs.
Gotta go buy a canoe or something.

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