Subject: RE: workout Two-a-day's are very common for multisports athletes. We have to get three work-outs in forever one work out that a single sport athlete does. That could be 4-5 if you count core work and weight training. So...to fit it all in the week doing two workouts a day the norm. For my first Triathlon, I would alternate cycling one day in the AM and running the next day in the AM. I then alternated Swimming with strength/core training in the PM. A typical week would look like the following Mon: Medium Run AM/ Medium Swim PM Tue: Medium Bike AM/ Core/Strength PM Wed: Long Run AM / Short Swim PM Thursday: Short Bike AM / Core Strength PM Friday: Short Run AM / Long Swim PM Saturday: Long Bike Sunday: Rest If you are doing 20 minutes biking and 20 minutes of running now then build slowly from there. The rule of thumb is to not increase your volume by more than 10% a week. So you could go to 22mins in Week #2, 24mins in week #3, 27mins in week #4. Etc. By spreading out things over two workouts rather than doing twice as much all in one session you recover faster. The quicker you recover the more you can do in a week. If you wanted to something like a bike in the morning and run in the evening you could easily do core work after the bike work out or even in the middle of the day and still be ready for a run in the PM. This should give you some ideas. I am sure you will have more specific questions so post aways. |