Ive purchased all 3 plans seperately but notice if I ad them back to back there are no rest weeks between plans?
Is this intentional? I assumed the 6 week plan included two rest weeks? maybe 3 on 1 off, 3 on 1 off?
I will have 5 weeks “on” if I dont add a rest week somewhere? should I just add one after 3 weeks on, this would be week 2 of plan 2 as an example and make the rest week 50% of previous weeks work load? looking at the planned TSS / Time this does kind of screw the build proccess, The other option would be to have a rest week after week 6 of SS1 and then same after SS2, This would mean though that im doing 3 weeks on, 1 off, then 2 weeks on 3 off and repeat, Id rather try and do 3 on 1 off if possible?
Does the 18 week plan include rest weeks that you have for sale? Maybe you could share that with me as I have purchased all three anyway… ???
I hope this makes sense???!!
I think ive basically made a mistake buying them separately and essentially need to swap for the combined one, I didnt realise you had “adjusted the periodization” on that one!!! =(
If you do them back to back to back the “taper” is there. Look back at the weekly TSS with all 3 plans in a row, should build for 3 weeks then drop for 1.
End of SS1 has two weeks increasing then SS2 has 1 week increasing with week 2 a “taper”. Same for SS2 to SS3 transition. SS3 is 7 weeks so depending what you do after you may need a “taper” week since it ends on a third increasing week. Should not have to add rest weeks in between SS plans though.
hmmmm, I see what your saying but this still means i will be building for 5 weeks without a “regeneration / recovery week” yes the TSS drops by 60 on week 2 of SS 2 but its still 484 tss @ 9 hours. 5 weeks seems alot without a real recovery period??
Perhaps I made a bad assumption and one of the coaches needs to reply. I have them all in one plan but assumed they’re the same workouts…I didn’t think they’d make new plans, rather just copy/split/etc. to meet demands.
You’ve actually confirmed my theory, if you have the all in one plan and it has 3 weeks on with one off then that’s exactly what I would like and need to swap my plans to your one!
I also presumed the individual plans are just the 18 weeks in 3 blocks but turns out they are not!
Sweet spot 1, 2 and 3 are 3 different training plans. They are to be used when you want to get a 6 week period of sweet spot training in.
18 weeks of sweet spot does take a lot from 1, 2 and 3 but it was designed as an 18 week training plan as opposed to just putting 3 plans together. They do take a lot of similar workouts from each other and overlap a bit, but it’s not exactly the same as stitching together.
If you would want to stitch your plan together the best way is to stick to the 3 on, 1 off work to rest ratio. You would have to slide weeks of training around to stitch together.
Thanks for the reply Jake, I’ve only just bought them so can I please swap to the 18 week plan, I know how to swap weeks on training peaks but I really want a solid 18 week built by people in the know, ie you guys, not something where I have butchered it together.
I appreciate this is my mistake but its not amazingly clear that the three separate plans are not the same as the 18 week block.