How many times have we seen this weekly training split:
Monday - weights
Tuesday - weights
Wednesday - cardio
Thursday - weights
Friday- weights
Saturday - off
Sunday - off
Why do so many of us take the weekend off training? Taking 2 days off is 28% of the week wasted, not to mention if you missed a session during the week.
Most of the time using a day on the weekend to train can make your training more effective as you then get better spacing between your workouts.
So the example above could change to:
Monday - weights
Tuesday - cardio
Wednesday - weights
Thursday - off
Friday - weights
Saturday - weights
Sunday - off
Another way is to double up on the weekend with workouts so you could do weights in the am on Saturday and cardio in the pm. You could spread it out more by doing cardio in the am on Sunday which will leave you almost 36hrs before weights again in the pm on Monday.
A hidden gem of training on the weekend is that you'll also be conscious of alcohol intake as you'll also be able to stay on track with your nutrition where otherwise one or both of these can really undo all the work you've done leading up to it.
That being said I'm heading to Lorne for my Buck's weekend but from then on I'll be training Monday through to Saturday for the next 4 months on my new program.
It's amazing how such a small tweak in programming can lead to more productive workouts.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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G'Day mate i thought when u did weights u had to do it say mond wed fri and have rest/cardio on tue thu sat is this true or no as i spoke to u on bigfooty Michael is the name cheers
ReplyDeleteHey Michael,
ReplyDeleteThe dyas aren't set in stone and it also depends on what training split you
are using. Mon/Wed/Fri or Tue/Thu/Sat, it doesn't matter, just give yiour self a day off in between each session for the most part.