Recovery
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4 min read
Five signs you are training too hard, too often
More is not always more. If these sound familiar, the fix is not another session.
We have never had to tell a member to try harder. We tell someone to back off roughly once a day. These are the signs we look for.
1. Your easy pace is getting slower
If the same heart rate buys you less speed than it did a month ago, you are not unfit. You are tired.
2. Your heart rate will not come up
It sounds like a good thing. It is not. When you cannot reach Thres however hard you push, your body is protecting itself.
3. You are sleeping badly
Hard training should make you sleep like a log. Lying awake with a racing heart after an evening class is a signal, not a quirk.
4. Small things hurt
A tendon here, a shin there. Niggles that move around are a classic sign of too much load and too little recovery.
5. You dread the class you used to love
Motivation is physiology too. When Wednesday intervals start to feel like a punishment, take the week in Base and Recover. They will be fun again by the following Wednesday.
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First visit
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The ramp test, explained without the jargon
Eight minutes on a bike that tell us where your five zones really are. No, it is not as bad as it sounds.
Recovery
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4 min read
What your resting heart rate is telling you
One number, taken before you get out of bed, says more about your week than any workout summary.
Training
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5 min read
Zone 2 feels too easy. That is the point.
Most people train their easy days too hard and their hard days too easy. Here is how to tell, and what to do about it.
First class
Your first class
is on us.
Come fifteen minutes early. We fit a strap, find your maximum with a short ramp test and show you round. Then you train.