When life gets in the way of training
Posted by Matt Moran on Aug 18, 2011
You start off a training program with lofty ambitions of sticking to it rigourously then you miss a session because of a what feels like a cold, then work gets really busy and you're travelling a lot so you miss another session and all of a sudden you've let go of all of the good work you put in over the past few months.
Well, that's what happened to me, I moved house, things got very busy here at Wattbike (and still are!) and my training and general physical activity fell off a cliff. I've still managed to get a few sessions in but they've been more about doing 30 minutes here or there just focusing on technique through the polar view. Something is better than nothing I suppose.
After a mammoth DIY session at the new house I'm now ready to jump back in and get moving again. The Wattbike has taken pride of place in my new home office with a strategically placed TV for viewing while I'm pedalling away (I suspect it'll be episodes of Casualty I'll be watching rather than clips of the TDF with my current levels of fitness). I'm signed up to Brian Rourke's Cat and Fiddle Ride at the start of October and while that's not an incredibly difficult ride there are a few hills in it which I'd like to enjoy, so I do have motivation to get back to some fitness. I also want to enjoy the summer here in the UK when it arrives (checks calendar, yes, it's August and raining and cold outside).
I'm going to speak to sport scientist, Eddie Fletcher, about where I should start again but I fear he's probably going to tell me to go back to the beginning of the sportive plan and I'll no doubt have to do that 3 Minute Aerobic Test again to set my power training zones. Nice, maybe I'll film this one in its entirety and put it up on the blog.
Let me know if you've experienced something similar, where life just got in the way of training and how you managed to get over it. Did you sign up for an event as motivation? Did you get back into it to lose the weight you'd gained? Be good to know, leave me a comment below.