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“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”
First week of the taper so the early part of the week off won’t be too damaging, it might help. Whatever happens in the next few weeks and Cali, the half marathon time was a real bonus and I still feel like you’ve done well with your training. So I think you can relax a bit without that big pressure of hitting a big target on race day. Keep up the hard work Ben.
“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”
“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”
“Rest days are key. Our body adapts and gets stronger when we rest & recovery. Have a good one!”
Keep that RPE down. You want to be able to run and chat, speaking of which, joining a group can add to the enjoyment here.
I’ve created a good all round gym session here. There might be some exercises the physio has given you that we need to work in. Let me know the key ones from that and I can chop and change a little. It might take us a while to get it perfect but those that have made the best gains with their strength work just do the same thing week in week out with only a few tweaks here and there.
If time is limited what I do is pair exercises together and go from one to the other without the recovery. I’ve tried to pair some up for you. For example you could do 3 x 15 Bicep Curls and then use the same barbell for your deadlifts, so straight away you’re saving about 3-4 mins by not needing 60s recovery in between each of those exercises.
Just an opportunity to get some more miles in at marathon pace and really dial those splits in.
Slowly adding time to your longer runs is the way forward. Keep the effort level down and continue to check in with your form.