Your athlete must go on a business trip that will, literally, take him around the World taking off from his home to the east and return from the west. The day his trip leaves he will be just finishing up his rest and recovery for build phase 2. The following week is Peak 1 then Peak 2 then Race and at the end of that week he will be racing his first A-race of the season. He is a 45 year old cat 3 racer and a pilot crewing a flight. He will fly on the airlines to a join up with a trip. His schedule looks like this:
Friday - Airline travel 7 time zones leaving at 540pm from his home base.
Saturday - Arrive at first destination at 2pm in that time zone. Arrival at his hotel at 4pm.
He will be staying at a hotel with decent exercise equipment.
Sunday - Athlete has this day free but would like to do some sight seeing.
Monday - 3:00 am wakeup call for a 5:30 am departure to fly 7 hours and at least 4 more time zones. He should arrive at his hotel by 6pm that evening. His hotel has decent exercise equipment.
Tuesday - He has an off day scheduled.
Wednesday - 5:00 am wake up for an 8:00am take off to fly 10 hours to the next destination. Arrival there should be at 6pm. The hotel here has good equipment.
Thursday - Off day.
Friday - Fly 10 more hours leaving at 6pm and arriving on Friday at 8am. (Int'l date line)
Saturday - Fly home on the airlines leaving at 6pm arriving at his home around 12pm the next afternoon.
Considering the wear and tear on his body from all the travel, his location in the annual training plan how would you coach your athlete to maximum performance for his upcoming A-race? (BTW let me just say "thanks" in advance! ~ d)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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Wow, that's a lot. What's your plan? Lots of sleep and naps would probably help ay? Don't you need to do a few high intensity work outs in there too since it's a peak week? Not a lot of volume too, right? It seems like it could work out decently.
What do you guys think?
Or you could do what Wolverine Alan Smith did... quit the pilot job and become a nurse so he has more time for cycling!
Kroske
Shouldn't you be flying something?
“Scramble, scramble!”
“All craft prepare for immediate launch”
“Core systems transferring control, launch when ready”
Hmmm, this sounds a lot like a homework problem. Travelling can be fun, but this seems very gruelling. You know more than I, but from what I've read it takes a relatively long time to lose your base aerobic fitness, while your high end is a lot more sensitive. I think if you do some shorter, very high-intensity workouts on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, with maybe some light spinning in between you'll be just fine. Actually, now that I think of it, that's pretty close to my regular training schedule. :) Oh, and if you're ever stuck without excercise equipment, running up hotel stairs works pretty well too. Bon voyage!
I would say, do like it like the Russian's when they came here for the world. Rollers (Trainer) on the plane. Would that be like training at altitude?
Take the bike with you. Or take up running/swimming. Or 500 sit ups followed by 500 push ups each night in the room. Run the stairs, or use the hotel stairmaster.
I'd focus on high intensity, cardio work.
Rayster stole my idea. Take your bike and trainer on the plane. Set the plane to Auto-Pilot, then set the bike and trainer up in the isle. I would do it. haha.
Not being able to do that...low volume, high intensity cardio workouts.
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