I’m currently on the “on-season/off season” training plan. right now I am about to enter the hypertrophy phase of weight training on the medium volume plan. I am not able to go to the gym due to covid and have not been able to set up a home gym like i planned. Also, I am having a hard time keeping up with all the workouts every day (riding, weights, Nino workouts, etc). I feel like I should scale back to the low volume plan. That being said I have committed to do something silly. In April I am planning on doing a massive ride, 331 miles and 30k climbing in a push. Based on this I feel like I should bag the weights for this year and focus on on-the-bike training. I would like to continue to work on getting stronger/faster with improvements in FTP while training for this big undertaking.
- would you recommend bagging the weights and focus on sweet spot training, sticking with the program and continue to attempt at weight training, or change plans altogether.
- would reducing my program to low volume and add in long zone 2 rides where I can be beneficial?
background - cycling for 2 years. 1st year trained on my own with pure volume to complete the Death Ride near Tahoe (130miles, 15k climbing). 5k miles/year over the last two years but likely would have been able to get 6-7K miles had I not had knee surgery. I have focused on structured training since May 2020 and have seen significant improvements.