Baby coming - minimum needed to hold condition

grahamspringett

Next month we will be joined by another lil fella, bringing our brood to three. Obviously I'm going to have different priorities for the following few weeks while we sort ourselves out and remember all the stuff you forget once your babies become self-sufficient toddlers.

My FTP numbers have been growing nicely and I am loathe to let my condition go too much. I was wondering what the minimum I would need to do per week to minimise loss of conditioning for the few weeks we are getting back into the swing of things.

I hope to be able to do 2 or 3 turbo sessions a week. Maybe some SST or threshold sessions would do the trick?

Alex Simmons

Congrats on the impending arrival Graham

Yeah - if only doing a few hours/week, then sweet spot is the go, the fewer the hours, the higher in the spot. Best of luck with it all!

Perhaps also consider a bigger than normal build up to that time as well in the knowledge that you'll drop off the training load for a few weeks.

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shoots

maybe try this winter routine from mr coggan???

http://www.cyclingforums.com/showpo...649&postcount=6

shoots

RChung

Hmmm. I'd say the minimum might be changing a dozen nappies, handling the older kids, and maybe a nice little necklace, but your wife would be the best judge.

grahamspringett

What, you mean there's more to life than riding a bike?

cooljazz

I don't have any new ones on the way but I was wondering... how many watts increase with the necklace?

RChung

Are you asking watt a necklace is worth?

Alex Simmons

Boom, tish

That is so Basil Brush.

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kopride

You can check out my "power quest for the 2busy thread." I am in a similar boat, 4 kids, younest 20 months, busy worklife, 7 hours training per week max. I have been trying to go beyond just hanging on, and trying to see whether I can actually improve. Make sure that you have a good spot for a trainer that can track watts reasonable well, a fan, and a good distractor (TV, ipod) and you can do a lot while the baby is down for a nap for a hour or two. So far, I have been seeing real progress with 2 x 20s at near FTP. Sleep deprivation is the real bitch for the first few months so it does become a choice between catching up on ZZZs or working out. Cross training with a baby jogger is good too when the baby is about 6 mos, and a trailer is fine at about 9 mos.

Good luck

Good luck.