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mwconstruct1972 posted 17 weeks ago.
I don't feel guilty about much of anything anymore. Unfortunately the world still goes on around tri training and competing. If you get to make it up, great! If not, you just fell in to a situation that happens to everyone. Think about it this way. If you have a training plan and are following it with any amount of discipline, chances are you are accomplishing more exercise and fitness wise than about 6 billion other people on the planet. If you manage to keep the peace with your wife, family, and other commitments while juggling the training than you are truly doing well. At the end of the day if you do the best you can with what you have to work with- who could ask for anymore.
On another note. Thank you for your service to the country. God bless.
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paganopj posted 17 weeks ago.
Just treat it as another rest day. Honestly, after going and going for a while, taking 2-3 days off in a row usually brings my biggest advances in time. Good luck avoiding the eyeball from the Mrs....I get that too. Many of her conversations with friends border around how she stays home so I can swim, bike, run, and lift weights all day every day! ;) Hang in there and enjoy the ride.
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RunMDC posted 17 weeks ago.
Whenever I miss a workout, whether it be for work or because my wife gives me that look, I try to shuffle my workouts around so that I can at least get part of that workout done. If I have not yet taken my day off I just rearrange the schedule (I schedule in one off day a week but I don't have a specific day, it depends on how I feel). I have some light weights and a few bands at home so worst case if I feel like I really need to get some sort of workout in instead of a day off I will do 45 min or an hour of core exercises.
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prendergi posted 17 weeks ago.
If I miss a day I do tend to treat it as a rest day depending on what I did that day. Sometimes playing hard or other responsiblities can work over your body just as much as a workout. My rest day is Monday also. I have encountered more fatigue during those weeks where my rest day is on a different day than Monday. Not so fatigued that I can't do the workout but I am a little more tired than on a normal week. I had to deal with that last week and this week (already). Example: Family was in town so I did my brick on Sat vs. Sun. Sunday we went to the beach and I boogie boarded most of the day. Not quite a restful day but I was going to attempt to run this morning since I missed a workout yesterday and just could not muster the energy to go. I knew if I did the rest of my week would probably be chock full of crappy training because I went to far. So tomorrow I will run some before I swim. So I guess I do a little of "all of the above" if I can. Some weeks it is just not in the cards.
"The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret" - Sarah Bombell
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sasquatch posted 17 weeks ago.
If I miss a key workout, I'll skip the next "filler" workout to make up the key workout. Don't double up, but make sure to get your key workouts in. Skip the fluff...
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TonisTri posted 17 weeks ago.
mwconstruct1972 wrote:
I don't feel guilty about much of anything anymore. Unfortunately the world still goes on around tri training and competing. If you get to make it up, great! If not, you just fell in to a situation that happens to everyone. Think about it this way. If you have a training plan and are following it with any amount of discipline, chances are you are accomplishing more exercise and fitness wise than about 6 billion other people on the planet. If you manage to keep the peace with your wife, family, and other commitments while juggling the training than you are truly doing well. At the end of the day if you do the best you can with what you have to work with- who could ask for anymore.On another note. Thank you for your service to the country. God bless.
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panchotri posted 17 weeks ago.
I am very happy when I miss workouts due family/work/illness issues; there are great excuses to recover and give myself a break from training. I just not let them happen to be during the weekend . I just contnue with the training progam and dont try to make up any workout. That and naps are priceless!
Wanted to get everyone's comments on missed workouts (mid week as well as weekend). Once in a while (like every other week) I usually have to miss at least a partial workout due to work, kids, spouse, etc.( I can tell when my wife give me that look like "if you even think about gettin on that bike!") I don't feel too guilty about a partial mid-week workout being skipped, but when I miss a long bike or long run I go on a huge guilt trip!
My rest day is Monday and if I miss a long ride or run I have tried making it up then, but that seems to make the next week even more miserable.
How does everyone cope with the missed workouts?
Do you:
a) treat it as another day of rest
b) replace your rest day with the day you missed
c) break up the day you missed by adding a little extra to the next few days
d) something else
thanks!
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