A brief recap of how the cunning plan is turning out. Below the graphs for swings and TGU workload. I have included in orange the total weekly workload divided by five (to compare with a typical 5/week practice), and in gray is the average workload for the week. So, if orange is higher than gray, it means I did more than 5 sessions. If gray is higher, it means I did more less than 5 sessions.
The plan seems to be going fine. Both lines are going up.
I decided to start progressing this way on 7th December, so the first full week that applies is the one completed on 16th December. My initial goal was to increase the workload in 3 units per week (for swings), and 0.3 per week for TGU. This is what I notice for swings:
- Average workload increased from 66.3 to 70.4 in 3 weeks, for a very modest increase of 1.3 per week. Half what I expected.
- The increase of the workoad/5 was form 53.0 to 84.5. This is a lot, 60% increase of weekly workload in 3 weeks, meaning I have been training many days per week. Average increase per week is of 10.0, 3 times more what I expected.
Apparently, I have been sacrificing daily intensity for frequency. To be honest, when I started the cunning plan I didnt consider which of the variables I would be tracking. The good thing is that both are increasing, so I´m going to sit and watch what happens with both in the following weeks. Time will tell.
For TGU, both variables have increased significantly, way more than what I expected. Suddenly TGU with 24 are feeling fairly easy, so I´m doing a lot of them. I think this rate of increase will stall now, I´ll have to see.
My only concern is that my weekly workload has tripled for TGU and increased about 60% for swings in about 3 weeks. That is a lot, so I´ll keep my eyes open for signs of overtraining.