strength training?
I like doing functional strength training stuff - kettlebells, pushups, pullups, cleans, box jumps, etc, and I have 2 questions:
1) Is it an absolutely terrible idea to do this while I'm doing the 14 week IM OS plan?
2) What days in the OS are best to do the workouts?
I've been doing functional stuff at the same time as the OS (I'm in week 7), and I think I have overtraining symptoms - can't hit power on bike, high resting HR, feeling pretty tired, etc. I'm stopping the functional stuff (and OS) and just doing yoga for a few days, but I'd like some general advice, if possible.
Thanks!
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Hi John, There's several threads in the 50's and Crushing It forum about strength training. The general consensus seems to be that over 50 you need to keep up the strength training. I'm 58 and didn't do strength training last year since it was my first year with EN and I just went with the plans. This year I'm back to doing strength training 2X a week on Monday and Friday's since those are the off days. I generally don't do all of the runs that are on the NOS plan. If it's low priority I usually skip it especially as the weeks mount up. The OS does get really hard and it wears on you. You have to watch yourself to make sure you don't run into a brick wall.
If you've been following the NOS forum there have been mentions of more fatigue lately. It's beginning to add up. I took some time off for Thanksgiving and I will probably take a few extra days off around Christmas. It helps me reset the clock both physically and mentally to do that. The biggest thing that the coaches warn us about as self-coached athletes, is to not follow the plan into a brick wall. It sounds like you've realized that's where you're headed with this and taking a few days off to relax and just do yoga is a great idea. Just make sure the yoga is relaxing yoga and not something like vinyasa or flow yoga which is a taxing workout in itself.
I hope this helps. let me know if you have any more questions.
Keeping up with upper and lower body strength training and core strengthening is a necessary component of training to prevent the onset on injuries. In the OS, Mondays and Fridays are off, so good days to incorporate strength training. During the season, depending on your training schedule and weekly volume of SBR, your strength training will likely decrease somewhat. But hopefully your outseason stregth training was enough to have built up enough strength to get your through the season and be able to do maintenance work.