This takes time, and you shouldn’t push yourself too hard at the beginning. Your weakened body needs time to recover from the additional demands of running after a cold. Take time to recoverĮvery running day should be followed by a rest day. Your body basically needs the same amount of time to reach your previous level of performance as it needed to recover from your cold. Length of time you were sick = length of time you need to come back If the first few sessions go well and you feel good, you can steadily increase the distance as you go. It’s better to err on the side of caution. Run the first few sessions slower and shorter So before you start running again or start the training plan below after being sick, you should consider these 6 tips for running after a cold. Returning to Running: 6 Tips for Exercising after a ColdĮveryone’s body reacts differently to training.
If you’re not sure if it’s time yet, you should probably get your doctor’s approval before starting up again. A more experienced athlete might do an extra week of hard training while an older or less experienced rider might trim it down to two weeks on, one week off but three on and one off will work for most riders.You need to make sure you fully recover from a cold before you start exercising or running again. This breaks down to three four-week cycles that each include three weeks of hard training and one week of rest. With three good months of training I am confident that I could get just about any rider into the best shape of their life. Three months for me is always the ideal amount of time to get myself or one of my athletes into peak shape for an event. Give yourself three months to get into shape.
More: 10 Training Fundamentals for Cyclists We're not going to get into any of that here. An extra interval here, one more day of recovery there, slight adjustments in cadence or number of intervals, etc. It's not big differences that need to be made to train different types of athletes for different types of events but extremely small ones. To train these systems, there are about six basic interval workouts that will work for you whether you are a recreational rider training for your first century or a track racer training for Nationals. The fact is that there are certain energy systems that need to be trained in a certain order and in a certain time frame. I think it is somewhat of a misconception that different riders need vastly different training programs. The first thing to know about this plan is that it is almost identical to the plan that I followed myself as a racer and that I am currently using to coach members of the Wonderful Pistachios Pro Cycling Team.
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