Systematic workout schedule is a guarantee of results, one might think.
Although this general opinion is true in essence, there are multiple conditions to success:
- you need to avoid injuries. The best way to accomplish it is resting days, enough sleep, and cross training. For instance swimming, running, tennis, are great complements to the sport we love
- micro adjustments. When miles pile up, you will start noticing new discomforts. An adjustment that felt great one or two months ago, doesn't feel right today. I am talking about saddle height, saddle for-aft, maybe even cleats position on the shoe.
- the weather changes for most of us, and the cold mornings have started appearing since about a week here. This alone requires adjustment on food intake, clothing, maybe even schedule.
- our weight fluctuates also. Getting lighter is a good thing, but what if it translates into a loss of power?
- there are plateaux we face. We need to understand them to overcome them. Intervals, cross training, will help.
So systematic workout is a very good thing, but needs lots of tweaks along the way. Some days we feel strong, some others weak and subjects to injuries. Tweaks and close look at our progress is necessary. One fundamental need to progress is not to get discouraged a bit, and walk carefully towards our goals.
JL
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