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I disagree. You can be real competitive if you have 1 day off a week. And just because you are doing some kind of exercise everyday does not mean that exercise is intense. I like to have something everyday, even if it's 5km of running. And right now all most everything is easy paced stuff. I think you do need to have the right mindset and focus if you want to be competitive. But it's also just fine to go through the motions to what ever extent your heart desires, and schedule allows, and just be at that level. I think where endurance sport gets demanding is when you are sucking every minute of your day to keep on that focus of being all you can be. The discipline reaches into your eating, sleeping, exercise of course. How normal every day people with the demands of job and family pull off competitive triathlon or other endurance sport is a bit beyond me.

His Monday swim is basically a day off dude. It's about as intense as going for a 30min walk around the block. Very low intensity and very easy. Also pretty much anyone can squeeze in a 30-45min morning workout if they just got out of bed earlier, rather than staying up watching Netflix. I'm sure if your goal was to be competitive, you could make it happen, but it certainly requires commitment and trimming the unnecessary things like sitting on the couch or scrolling through Insta. Good luck with it!

Joal Harding Couldn't agree more!!

Yep!!

Just remember that when you are coming back from any tendon injury you have to load very very slowly. I go with 10% increase in distance per week. Tendons are very sensitive and if you overload them by doing too much too soon, you will be back at square 1!

Depending on the training blocks you use, you definitely need to factor in a rest period. This doesn't mean complete rest, but you definitely need to lower the intensity/volume of training to a degree. This is when our bodies actually build muscle and repair themselves. Not enough rest after a long training block = massive risk of injury.

You won't get the benefit of building up aerobic capacity for running. Similarly, your anaerobic capacity for biking would go no where (not necessarily a bad thing for long distance). We do aerobic training to build up mitochondrial density and capillary density in muscles specific to the sport we're training, so biking benefits biking and running benefits running. There would be some crossover, but I think most plans would recommend doing mostly aerobic for both disciplines with some high intensity for both.

Struan Wilson No it doesn’t work like that. You need to be scheduling each discipline into 80/20. Determined on how much you are training each week, you can schedule this out over a week, fortnight or even across a month.

See a chiropractor... Secondly sounds like muscle imbalances Are you hitched on one side

Strength and conditioning my friend

I worked with those issues in clients in the past as a Corrective Exercise Trainer and usually it due to a combo of weak Lower/Mid Traps and tight Lats and possibly teres major. Also can be imbalances in your Scapular and Thoracic mobility/Strength. However it also can be tightness in the hip flexor complex in combo with a in active posterior chain.. Which is very common with runners. It just depends how your Mobility Assessment comes out

Do you get the upper back pain every time you run, or only in the runs you do after coming straight off your bike? Where exactly in your upper back is your pain? I'm a physiotherapist, I would love to help!

2.5 weeks is nothing, he will be shocked at how strong he is in just 1 month's time!