Strategic Overtraining (Avoiding Vacation Deconditioning)

A lot of our clients are traveling right now so I wanted to share with you a way to avoid the deconditioning that happens with missed workouts.

 

Strategic Overtraining

 

If you’ll be gone for one week (more or less) and realistically think that you won’t get any quality workouts during that time, I’d encourage you to consider the use of strategic overtraining to avoid deconditioning.

 

Here’s how it works:

 

Figure out how many of the regular high quality workouts you are going to miss. And then I want you to add that number of workouts into your training program spread between the two weeks prior to your vacation.

 

For example, let’s say that you normally strength train three days per week.

 

If you do what most people do, here’s what happens when you go on vacation:

 

2 weeks prior to vacation: 3 complete workouts
Week prior to vacation: 3 complete workouts
Week of vacation: 0 workouts

 

Usually that’s not going to take you into the right direction.

 

Here’s what you can do:

 

2 weeks prior to vacation: 4 complete workouts
Week prior to vacation: 5 complete workouts
Week of vacation: 0 workouts

 

In the second model, you’ve made up your three “lost workouts” before you’ve ever left. And instead of deconditioning during your time off, you will likely go into “supercompensation” and come back more fit than before.

 

Get it Done!!