Workout Proximity
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
I've been stacking workouts for years...I've done 3 IM's and a bunch of other races on it.
I'm like you...I have to be up at 5 and out the door at 6:15 and @ work by 7. I could squeeze in a short trainer ride in the morning,but I'd rather ease into my day.
Unlike you, though, I can get in a workout and still get home by four (I'm done at 2:30) Usually I get in a second workout then and do family stuff before bed @ 8 or 9.
I've always done it this way and it works for me.
Mind you...I'm off in the summer and get plenty of time to slot in two or three workouts a day...
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tsilcyc posted 1 year ago.
Sure, I've done it. I just put enough time in between, like you have, to not make it a brick.
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brittda posted 1 year ago.
I do this all the time. Get up at 5:00, run, eat breakfast then an hour or 2 later yoga then eat lunch, hang out, swim. By then its time for hubby to get home and dinner blah blah blah. I alternate the run with bike.
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PrinceofClydes posted 1 year ago.
workouts at 6am!! :eek: 5:15!! What are you, some kind of ironman??
Screw that. I like to have the streets well aired before I venture out. A nice 25k ride to the office a pot of coffee with my muffin, and in the afternoon maybe a run, then a ride home 25k.
Then in July, when the ice has gone off the lake, I swim, whether I need to or not.
On the w/e I may ride 25k to the pool and swim for an hour then ride home again, in the Spring, or Fall, if the weather's nice. Sometimes, I run the 25k in to the pool, then swim, then ride home, but not every w/e.
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jhudalla posted 1 year ago.
I'll usually be able to get in 1 per day and long sessions on the weekends, but sometimes I can work in 2 or 3 2-a-days a week. It's tuff but I can motivate myself better as races get closer. Though as for that, this method would probly be served best in my base and build phases and sticking to the 1 a day during the week and having long hard brick sessions on the weekends... hey, I'm still learning.
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jwillia852 posted 1 year ago.
I have woken up without an alarm around 6am my entire life, but I have never had a good AM workout, just something about it has never worked! That said, my workouts are nearly always stacked like that.
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zagfan posted 1 year ago.
I can't do the evening workout, I'd be too wired. I'm up at 4:30 and off to the pool...at work by 7:00...run or bike 1 hour at lunch and then home by 5:30...long workouts on weekends.
It's actually funny. Through college and when I first came into the Army I would sleep in until 1 or 2 on the weekend and was NOT a morning person. Now that I'm into triathlon I've become a morning person and getting up early is no problem. I am trying to convince my wife that working is over rated and I should just retire at 28 so I can spend the rest of my life training for tris. Don't think she's buying it so I guess I'll have to keep getting up early :)
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jtrimom posted 1 year ago.
I'm totally a morning person- if I don't get in an early morning workout, I am grumpy the rest of the day- Saturday is my pj day, and I try to stay in bed as much as possible (my kids know, if they want me, come snuggle) but Sunday and during the week, I am up b/t 3:45 and 4:45 (depending on the wkout and partner) and I am home from the gym/ park by 7am to get the kids ready to go.
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TriSooner posted 1 year ago.
zagfan wrote:
I'm more like zagfan. Early AM runs, swims; after work bikes; long weekends. I have the uber-generic 8-5 M-F and a short commute (for Dallas), so AM/PMs two-a-days aren't hard. Alarm can go off and I can be running from front porch within :10. (How long does it take to put on clothes, shoes?) Total morning person.
I can't do the evening workout, I'd be too wired. I'm up at 4:30 and off to the pool...at work by 7:00...run or bike 1 hour at lunch and then home by 5:30...long workouts on weekends.
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jhudalla posted 1 year ago.
Some nights if I get to bed too late but know I need to get that am run in I'll go to bed with my running shorts and sox on so I can jump up, throw in the shirt and hit the door. If I have to stumble around too much I long for the warm bed and usually get defeated.
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zagfan posted 1 year ago.
jhudalla wrote:
Some nights if I get to bed too late but know I need to get that am run in I'll go to bed with my running shorts and sox on
Great plan! I'm going to sleep in my jammers and goggles and just roll up to the pool ready to go.
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Socket posted 1 year ago.
I can't really work out at night. The mornings are just too convenient. Thankfully with the new job I can get my workout in around 6 instead of 5 so I get a little more sleep than I used to. If I haven't gotten a workout in by noon, forget it; not happening.
Like most of you, the volume of training that is required per week means that on some days you have to workout two times between a nights sleep. Now logic would dictate that I would be best served to workout once in the morning and then again in the later part of the afternoon / early evening.
Having said that, try as I may, I can rarely bring myself to get out of bed and get a workout in before work and when I do, I feel that the qulaity of my workout isn't as good. I was just curious if anyone stacks workouts in the evening (or even in the morning) with any success. I don't mean a "brick" like workout, but something like this schedule:
1600 - Get home from work, 60 minute tempo run
1730 - Get something to eat
1730 - 2030 relax do family stuff
2030 - swim 2000 meters at a relaxed pace (just below race pace)
2130 - wind down for the evening
2230 - bed
I'd like to hear any pros or cons to that kind of workout.
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