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Originally Posted by Phoenix
I'm trying to figure out how to fit the four lifting sessions into a five day period. For the "B" workouts, the set-up is the same. I would instead like to work on a M/W/F lifting schedule. Does anyone (Leigh or other FLTS folks) have ideas on how to make the A1/A2 and B1/B2 workouts fit into a 3x/week instead of 4x/week set up?
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Originally Posted by Phoenix
Thanks so much for the swift reply!
I'm not really set up at home to do the workouts, and I like doing it at the gym. I guess that means I'll have to suck it up and do MT/ThF, even if I'm doing softball on Wednesday nights.
So my schedule shifted around would look like this:
Mon: A1 + Cardio + Recovery
Tues: A2 + Recovery
Wed: Softball + Cardio
Thurs: A1 + Recovery
Fri: A2 + Recovery
Sat: Cardio + Recovery
Sun: Rest
I still have the same number of lifting, cardio, and recovery, just shifted around slightly. How does that look to you?
Thanks again for all your help!
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There's no way to do the 4 weight workouts in 3 days. Your second schedule looks good although fairly busy and not a lot of recovery time. I couldn't lift 4 out of 5 days without getting hurt or over trained although it may be fine for you. With the softball you've also making this 8 activity/exercise sessions not 7 all together. I'd drop the cardio on Wednesday and just play softball. Also with OPT Leigh recommended that you should split up the cardio and weight training on the double up day ie weights am/ cardio pm etc. Can you do that M-Fri?
Another option would be to drop one of the lifting days and limit the lifting to 3 times weekly. Perhaps something like this...
M A1
W A2
Fr B1
M B2
W A1
Fr A2 And so forth
Your cardio could be done on Tu, Thu, and Sat and the recovery whenever. That may work better in the long run for you. With the softball you're actually still getting a total of 7 activity/exercise sessions in a week also. I followed this schedule when I was doing OPT training and couldn't fit it a double workout day. It worked really well for me.