condensing pete plan to 4-day/week

dunno3 · Post by **dunno3** » November 6th, 2006, 12:49 am

Due to time reasons I can only fit in 4 erging sessions per week. If I were to condense the pete plan into 4 days what would be the best workouts to leave out? I can workout tuesday, thrusday, saturday, and sunday.

hjs · Post by **hjs** » November 6th, 2006, 6:02 am

Do 1 short interval
1 long interval
1 steady long row
1 hardish 30 min.

deefor · Post by **deefor** » November 9th, 2006, 9:28 am

I was also wondering this as can only train 4 times a week..quick question.. would you advise doing the workouts in order written?

hjs · Post by **hjs** » November 9th, 2006, 1:53 pm

deefor wrote:I was also wondering this as can only train 4 times a week..quick question.. would you advise doing the workouts in order written?

No

Do 1 short interval
restday
1 steady long row
1 long interval
restday
1 hardish 30 min
restday

something like this is how I would do it.

Bob S. · Post by **Bob S.** » November 9th, 2006, 2:01 pm

deefor wrote:I was also wondering this as can only train 4 times a week..quick question.. would you advise doing the workouts in order written?

I assume that you are referring to the plan suggested by hjs (which looks very good to me). Rather than the order written, I think that it would be better to alternate the intervals and long pieces, i.e. not in the order in which they were written in that message.

I would also do the easiest one on Sunday, since that is the one day when you don't have a break the day before. Picking the easiest of the four would be something that you would have to decide. My guess would be the short interval, but I think that it would be necessary to do a couple of weeks of the program to be sure.

Bob S.

Janice · Post by **Janice** » November 13th, 2006, 5:21 pm

You could try posting to the UK forum as Pete doesn't read this one much.

Pete Marston · Post by **Pete Marston** » November 18th, 2006, 4:57 pm

My only real comment to add to what Henry said would be to not do any "easy" rows. I think the four sessions Henry suggested are the best 4 to do, but even make the long steady row good quality (ie pretty fast, but perhaps at a lower rate than the hard 30min).