Time off and effect on fitness
sam_thebatman
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Hi,
I have recently been off pretty much all excersize for 3 weeks (broken collarbone). Started back again 2 weeks ago, biking only. HR seems to be through the roof on easy (what i perceive to be easy) sessions (especially compared to what my HR was before). What is the effect of 3 weeks off? Have i lost all fitness do you think? will it be easy to get back? Hopefully will start running in 2/3 weeks, i know that would have suffered, but i can generally get running fitness back pretty easily from past experience.
Anyone else had experience with this amount of unplanned time off?
I have recently been off pretty much all excersize for 3 weeks (broken collarbone). Started back again 2 weeks ago, biking only. HR seems to be through the roof on easy (what i perceive to be easy) sessions (especially compared to what my HR was before). What is the effect of 3 weeks off? Have i lost all fitness do you think? will it be easy to get back? Hopefully will start running in 2/3 weeks, i know that would have suffered, but i can generally get running fitness back pretty easily from past experience.
Anyone else had experience with this amount of unplanned time off?
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We don't schedule in enough recovery or rest time as it is so three weeks out doing nothing will not adversely affect you in the long run.
You will have lost 'some' fitness, but from personal experience it's pretty easy to get back to where you were. Maybe if you were out for a few months you'd have to seriously re-evaluate your goals but three weeks is nothing (IMO!)
Good luck - and don't rush it!
At this time of year it shouldn't set you back much, if at all. The importance of rest before competition isn't always appreciated, either. From personal experience, when I was running 400mH, my fastest ever time came during my university finals and I had had nearly a month of hardly training at all before going out and nailing it!
would say that you won't have lost much fitness but some speed. Your HR would be through the rood cause you've shocked the system a bit.
you still have loads of time to get some winter base training under you belt so stay aerobic and out of anearobic for the time being.
Blood volume, heart stroke volume etc....mad!
But I think it's all pretty reversible. To take a 3 week break a short time before race season would be awful, but night now it's no problem. Probably a good thing to let the legs rest a little anyway.
I raced a tri in May last year, had a couple of weeks off then knocked a minute off my 5k PB - having done nothing but rest, eat and forget about training.