Oscar
Level 7 Valued Member
Hi all,
For the last 14 days I have been doing S&S every day. Instead of days off I have done light days, but no days off at all. Before this period I was practicing about 4-6 days a week, whatever life permitted, but not every day like now.
I have noted that in order to recover from day to day and feel energetic I had to reduce the intensity of my practices, now that I´m not taking days off. Before, when I was averaging 5 times a week, I could go a little heavier since I had more recovery. This makes sense, since the weekly volume of practicing 7 days is 40% more than 5 days.
Here below are the passages of the book that refer to frequency:
"You will start by training every day, taking an occasional day off when your body insists, or when your schedule puts you in a crunch."
Tsatsouline, Pavel. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (Posición en Kindle883-884). . Edición de Kindle.
It may seem strange to recommend training without days off when the goal is storing energy, but moderate daily training will keep the muscles’ fuel tanks topped off, while making tissues resistant to microtrauma and almost soreness-proof. It is the ticket to being always ready.
Tsatsouline, Pavel. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (Posición en Kindle1344-1346). . Edición de Kindle.
Additionally, a while after the book, Pavel wrote the following article, referring to a training frequency of 5/week. From Simple to Sinister: Waving Volume on S&S. Following passage from the article:
"The first step is identifying your monthly volume. Note that the “month” I am referring to is not a calendar month but a block of four weeks. S&S is intended to be practiced daily but most people end up doing it five days a week. For swings, the numbers then add up to:
(5 days x 100 reps = 500 reps a week) x 4 weeks = 2,000 reps a month"
I´d like to know what weekly frequency have the forum members used, and to what results. Also, I wonder if practicing every day is actually beneficial, or if one or two days off a week is actually good in order to improve recovery.
For the last 14 days I have been doing S&S every day. Instead of days off I have done light days, but no days off at all. Before this period I was practicing about 4-6 days a week, whatever life permitted, but not every day like now.
I have noted that in order to recover from day to day and feel energetic I had to reduce the intensity of my practices, now that I´m not taking days off. Before, when I was averaging 5 times a week, I could go a little heavier since I had more recovery. This makes sense, since the weekly volume of practicing 7 days is 40% more than 5 days.
Here below are the passages of the book that refer to frequency:
"You will start by training every day, taking an occasional day off when your body insists, or when your schedule puts you in a crunch."
Tsatsouline, Pavel. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (Posición en Kindle883-884). . Edición de Kindle.
It may seem strange to recommend training without days off when the goal is storing energy, but moderate daily training will keep the muscles’ fuel tanks topped off, while making tissues resistant to microtrauma and almost soreness-proof. It is the ticket to being always ready.
Tsatsouline, Pavel. Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (Posición en Kindle1344-1346). . Edición de Kindle.
Additionally, a while after the book, Pavel wrote the following article, referring to a training frequency of 5/week. From Simple to Sinister: Waving Volume on S&S. Following passage from the article:
"The first step is identifying your monthly volume. Note that the “month” I am referring to is not a calendar month but a block of four weeks. S&S is intended to be practiced daily but most people end up doing it five days a week. For swings, the numbers then add up to:
(5 days x 100 reps = 500 reps a week) x 4 weeks = 2,000 reps a month"
I´d like to know what weekly frequency have the forum members used, and to what results. Also, I wonder if practicing every day is actually beneficial, or if one or two days off a week is actually good in order to improve recovery.