Hello,
I have done the Beginner Template Week 1 this past Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday. I would like to repeat Week 1. I would like to recalibrate this to working out this week and further weeks on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I am thinking the best way to do this is working out on Saturday and then continuing Tuesday. I am repeating Week 1 so with conditioning at 25 min, should I just raise the resistance a little bit? My bike does not count calories so should I just try pedaling faster with the same resistance? I know I do not want muscular adaptations to occur with conditioning.
Hi BB54,
I don’t think there’s any need to repeat Week 1, but rather move on to Week 2 and train this Saturday as Day 1, Tuesday as Day 2, and Thursday as Day 3. No problem with that at all.
I would not increase the resistance of the bike on your conditioning efforts after 1 week, but rather pedal faster, cover more distance, etc. IF AND ONLY IF your conditioning has improved due to muscular and cardiorespiratory adaptations in 1 week. You ABSOLUTELY DO WANT these things to occur with conditioning, as they improve both health and performance across lots of activities- including lifting. That said, I would have you use RPE during the activity to guide your cadence and pacing.
-Jordan