Back where I belong; Need help w/ a new schedule

Cold Phyte · 10:55 PM

Hello everyone,

First post here, obviously. Just had a couple questions about fitting my training, conditioning & weight-lifting into my schedule. I've coming off a half-year layout from training from my gym. Bout 6 months back I totaled my Vette & I haven't been about to travel my 2+ hours to & from my gym, since I have been stuck w/ an unreliable ol' pickup that likes to overheat. I have been training @ home though. I have full weight-lifting equipment, heavy, double-end & speed bag, etc. Anyways, got me a new vehicle & I'm ready to get back into the real mix of things. I'm pumped... Problems though, college starts back in less than a month, & I have to fit in both my training & strength/conditioning work. Blah...

M-F, from morning to 5 pm, I have to deal w/ college + work. After that, I'm good. Here's how I currently imagine my schedule.

M: Training
Tu: Light Cardio
W: Strength-training(if not still sore from previous training)
Th: Training
F: Day Off
Sa: Light Cardio
Su: Strength-training(if not still sore from previous training)

Yeah, everything's kinda scattered. Problems w/ this is the fact that it takes me quite a while to recover from a good workout or strength-training(atleast a day, sometimes 2), so either one could interrupt the other. & I'm not sure how wise it is to work through the soreness, & I certainly don't won't to miss one or the other. The last problem I have is I am wanting to cross-train BJJ, MT & boxing. This won't be easy w/ only two days training. I previously trained only stand-up. Doing Boxing on Monday's, & MT on both Wednesday's & Friday's. Now I will be doubling up my classes, one after another & throwing in BJJ.

I guess I will go w/ Boxing/BJJ on Monday's & Muay Thai/BJJ on Thursday's. The sucky thing about that is that I am only taking boxing classes to help improve my boxing stand-up, but Muay Thai is were my sparring is done. I learn much more in MT, but I help refine my technique in Boxing classes. I absolutely hate cutting MT short to simply refine my technique. It makes me feel like I will be losing out of half of my possible sparring experience(which I will).

Anyways, someone please help me w/ my schedule. Any comments/critics? Anything I should do different/change? Shoot, change the whole dange thing around for me if you want. Anyways, sorry for the long post. Hope this post doesn't drop to the bottom. Thanks for any help. -Cold Phyte

*EDIT* - BTW, I was also wondering how I should go about my workout sessions. If I should do both explosive sessions such as plyo's & such, or if I should do both sessions w/ heavy lifting. Or if I should split them up & do one session of each?

RuDOWN4It · 07-27-2006, 10:24 PM

Why not switch tuesdays workout with wednesdays? since training on monday will work on your cardio, you probably won't need it as much on tuesday. lift weights on tuesday, and use the light cardio on wednesday to stretch out your muscles so you won't be too sore to train again on thursday. Just my thought.

Cold Phyte · 07-27-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by RuDOWN4It

Why not switch tuesdays workout with wednesdays? since training on monday will work on your cardio, you probably won't need it as much on tuesday. lift weights on tuesday, and use the light cardio on wednesday to stretch out your muscles so you won't be too sore to train again on thursday. Just my thought.

That's a good idea! As a matter of fact I could also follow-up Thursday's training w/ a workout as well, then the next day w/ a light cardio session. That is... if I am not too sore. But then again I probably will be. I guess I could just try & work through the soreness if it isn't too bad. & I could move my free day to Sunday. Or hell, if I am THAT sore I could just take my free day the day after my Thursday training session, move my second workout of the week to Saturday & do a light cardio session on Sunday to help prepare me for Monday. Thanks for your input, man.

RuDOWN4It · 07-27-2006, 11:31 PM

Or you could put your free day to friday. Since you are in college, might as well take a day off for a little partying haha. Probably wont hurt, reward yourself a little bit for a weeks hard work.

TapSD · 07-28-2006, 06:50 PM

Sometimes ill split up the day...sprints and/or running in the morning...MT or crossfit in the afternoon

Cold Phyte · 07-28-2006, 09:27 PM

Yeah, I could try that. Not sure if it would work. Me trying to get as much sleep as I can & all, it would be a serious b!tch to get up early enough to do such. I get up @ 8:30 as is, which isn't too bad, but gettng up at 7:00 =

. But if that's what it comes down to, shoot, I'll do whatever is needed. Thanks for the advice.

TapSD · 07-29-2006, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Cold Phyte

Yeah, I could try that. Not sure if it would work. Me trying to get as much sleep as I can & all, it would be a serious b!tch to get up early enough to do such. I get up @ 8:30 as is, which isn't too bad, but gettng up at 7:00 =

. But if that's what it comes down to, shoot, I'll do whatever is needed. Thanks for the advice.

I wake up at 5:30 no matter what..my fucking brain does not let me sleep past that long..Damn military