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Ok – so finishing up the 14 weeks muscle endurance gym program — I don’t have any kind of history with weight training, but wow feeling the results so far, and those last few weeks with 15 or 10 second rests between sets keeps my HR in Zone 3 for like 30 minutes, hardcore!
I do the exercise once per week.
Going forward, as we progress through the season is there any recommendations for maintaining it? Do I just keep doing same exercises or change it up? I suppose I run the risk of losing it if I don’t do a weight training exercises for several months.
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for writing in. If you’re not doing intentional ME workouts, the gym version, treadmill or outdoor ME-esque workouts, or ‘incidental ME’, like hiking uphill with a pack to go skiing or climbing , ski touring with heavy kit, and the like, then you maintain ME by doing the gym ME. Same exercises in the workout. Depending on what you’re training for, adding more sets or more weight are common progression variables.
Resistance training can happen in the same period as ME workouts. Often folks do one or two lifts like Bulgarian split squat or front squat in an overall moderately hard workout.
Hope this helps,
-Seth
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