I feel like I’m in a bit of a jam. Between work, and my sport, which is going to be very intense for the next six weeks or so, I’m not sure what my most effective training strategy should be. I can realistically commit to Saturday and Tuesday, which would allow me to push hard and still have some recovery time unless work gets really tough, then I could be totally smoked. But it should be ok. Still, even on my “rest days” I’m going to be seriously exerting myself. If I can maintain my strength or even most of it, and keep the feeling I get from regularly lifting I’ll be happy. My metabolism and lifestyle is extremely catabolic. This is what I need to avoid the most.
Anther idea, instead of working out hard just twice a week, and likely failing to do so sometimes, is I could do all my warm ups and just one work set, but keep raising the weight, and then add the sets back in once I have the time and energy when things settle down.
I have one of those x3 bars that I use when I travel. That thing saves a lot of time, but it’s less enjoyable. I used it for two months, then got back under a barbell with no need to deload, so it can work.
Obviously I plan to keep eating as I have. Yesterday I didn’t track and just ate pizza because… fuck it hahaha. But today my joints hurt a little and we won’t be doing a lot of that.
I could play with my doses if there would be benefit. I definitely need to maximize recovery and that’s been my biggest challenge. Getting to sleep and staying asleep long enough to really recover.