[janani.prabhakar]

I am developing my plan for my transition period and in Steve’s book, it recommends for weeks 1-3 two recovery workouts, one after a Zone 2 and the second after a climbing day, Is there any logic to combining the zone 2 and recovery workouts in one day? Is there any guidance against combining certain workouts in a single day like a zone 2 run and an upper body strength day?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous on May 21, 2020 at 12:48 pm #41949

It depends on the individual and the desired training effect. For some, doing the workouts in the same day, due to increased stimulus and fatigue, will create a training effect rather than recovery. For others with more training history, the recovery workout may indeed be a recovery workout.

For combining strength and Z2, it’s not a problem to combine them but do the more important one first. Which is more important will depend on your training priorities.