Second Program: Week #5

Week 51: Second Program - week 5 out of 15

Week settings:

• Area of focus: Cardio-Strength
• Number of training days: 4
• Limitations: none
• Last week feedback: "Hard, but ok"

Training:

• Monday: [bonus: 2K run (09:12)] +Hera standard 3/5 (12:08*) +[bonus: 2K run (11:04)]
• Tuesday: Venus standard (18:36*)
• Wednesday: Gaia standard (29:54* -PB)
• Thursday: boxing training
• Friday: Lunge standard 100 (03:36* -First time) +Kentauros standard 1/6 (03:49* -First time) +[bonus: 25 pushups standards (00:35*) +25 pushups diamonds (00:47*) +25 pushups wide (00:50*) +25 pullups standards (01:23*)]

Statistics:

• 1'914 points
• 68 minutes

No Hells Days. No Hell Week.

Week #5 turned out to be perfectly normal. Even more quiet than usual: with a total training time of 68 minutes, this is the shortest training schedule since re-starting the program.
(Reminder: training time only includes the workouts assigned to me by the Coach. The "bonus" workouts that I decide to add to spice-up things a bit are not counted by the app).

I have a bit of trouble to understand the progressivity of the workouts assigned to me each week. You'd imagine that each week intensity increase a bit, or that the program would alternate tough weeks with recovery ones. But week #4 wasn't particularly difficult, so I don't really see the point of an easy week #5. We'll see what the future holds, but so far I'm moderately impressed by the training generator algorithm.

I stated a few times that I'm not a huge fan of partial workout. Unless they are a complement to another workout (e.g. 1/3 Metis to warmup before something else) or a step toward a harder goal (e.g. 6/10 Strength Gaia, as a first step before 8/10 or 10/10 in the following weeks). But just getting 3/5 of standard Hera, (that was already assigned to me in Week #2), feels cheap (and it hurts me ego!)
Hence on day #1 I added a bit of running before & after the workout to feel like I had a real training session. And completed day #4 with a few pushups & pullups.


The toughest thing this week was Gaia on day #3. The standard version is definitely less crazy than the strength one, but even without the high jumps it's still an intense workout. I had never performed Gaia during my first program (only tried it afterward). This time, it seems I get it every other week, and I have learnt to respect it!


That's it. Short overall training training, no new workout: there was not much to comment about this time. Next post should follow shortly.