As you know, in April I undertook my first 70.3, Ironman Putrajaya (1.9km swim, 90km swim and 21.1km run.) This as you can imagine took a lot out of me and post race training is something all should not neglect!
It was several weeks before I even started thinking about doing further training. I had read in another blog about treating any training in these post race weeks not as training but as exercise. So I played some recreational tennis and very gradually dropped in some running and some shorter rides. I was really pleased my immune system held up and I didn't get ill and that I have recovered well apart from some tightness in my Achilles. I've had to be kind to myself.
I decided that I needed to spend May doing some different training to the rest of the year to date that had been made up of cardio. So, I took myself inside the gym for some rebuild and consolidation.
I've reacquainted myself with the Olympic bar, dumbbell and kettle bells. I've dusted off full body moves like squats, deadlifts and bench press and hauled myself over the occasional pull up and dip, and finally even roll outs! I started off lifting quite light for my historical max loads so worked at around 60kg.
Throughout May I've gradually increased the weight during this period until bench press is up to 90kg, deadlifts and squats 160kg. This has obviously put a smile on my face- goal of any training programme!? This type of training may not fit with the traditional triathletes programme but I never was the build of a traditional triathlete...
Now with June almost two months since the 70.3 upon me, I find myself wanting to find another event to enter: this must be a good thing with some consolidated strength thrown in! Cue eyeroll from the wife ;)
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