Two a day training sessions

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I listened to this Fast Talk podcast on two a day training sessions recently.

https://www.fasttalklabs.com/fast-talk/effective-two-a-day-workout-strategies-with-neal-henderson/

They seemed to settle on high intensity in morning, a 3-6 hour gap, then endurance in the afternoon being beneficial.

Any thoughts, for instance if I get a day where I can’t fit in a 2 hour aerobic development; is there benefit to moving it to afternoon of day either side where I have a HIIT workout scheduled, assuming I plan to do the HIIT in the morning?

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There's a real solid rationale for 2-a-days plan for cyclists that want to maximize their performance ability, but its rarely practiced traditionally. Think of all the other sports like running and triathlon that do 2-a-days. As Stephen Seiler reminds us, you want regular cell signalling with low central nervous system stress (rationale for polarized training method). So here with this 2-a-day model, you'd get that. That's exactly why our high volume cycling plans in Athletica apply this practice.

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@paul Excellent that gives me more scheduling flexibility to move workouts (rather than delete) where there are weeks where I can’t workout on particular days.

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Hi @Prof I just noticed that I have in my next Wed. plan 2 running workouts , 1.07 L2 and 55min tempo. My plan is LOW volume and I have skipped few sessions last week due to business trip, so at first I thought it was a mistake, but then found this tread and wondering if tjis is correct to have 2 running session same day?

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Hi @Kreska … this is due to the beta program you are on with the User-time constraints feature trying to meet your duration constraints. Would you like me to remove you from the beta group?
Best,
Paul

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Hi @Prof I have some doubts about this time constraints setup - although I have set all as per my availability (would prefer to swim Thu/Sun) it still gives me some odds sessions like 19min on Friday… And about the 2 sessions per day for running, I did yday one of them, picked the pace version on my Garmin watch, but when the data uploaded after training it assigned it to L2 session - is there a way to unlink the training from Garmin and link it to proper one?