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How I moved my hard sessions away from injection day

Started 4 April 2026 · 14 replies · 92 hearts · read 1.1k times

RonanBelfast, NI · 4 April 2026
4 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: How I moved my hard sessions away from injection day Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I have tried three arrangements and none of them has survived a difficult week, which suggests I am designing for good weeks.

The social side of this is harder for me than any of the logistics, and I have not found anywhere else where that is discussed practically.

If anybody has an arrangement that works and is willing to write it out, I would be very grateful.

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InêsPorto, PT
#1

What I would say is get the protein sorted before anything else. Everything I read agreed and I ignored it for a season.

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BoWhitby, UK
#2

My sessions are shorter and heavier now and that has worked better than the volume I used to do.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#3

Stepping in to say that asking for help with logistics is not a smaller kind of asking. It is most of what makes this sustainable.

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OndineLausanne, CH
#4

The recovery side was where I noticed it most. Same session, slower recovery, for about two months.

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BronLincoln, UK
#5

Adding a name to the list of people this helped.

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NolanHalifax, CA
#6

What surprised me was how much better my joints felt, which had nothing to do with anything I was aiming at.

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ClemmieNorwich, UK
#7

I had a period where I was clearly underfuelling without meaning to, and my coach spotted it before I did.

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PolaGdańsk, PL
#8

Nolan has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Something that helped was eating on a schedule rather than on appetite, because appetite stopped being a reliable signal.

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LenaMunich, DE
#9

I kept lifting three times a week throughout and my numbers dipped for about six weeks and then came back.

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TabbyMargate, UK
#10

Reading Clemmie, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Something practical: I moved my training to the morning because my appetite is more reliable earlier and the fuelling became simple.

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MaryamBirmingham, UK
#11

Building on what Pola wrote rather than answering the original question.

My rest days matter more than they used to and I have stopped treating them as optional.

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EdwynNewcastle, UK
#12

What I found is that the first six weeks were the worst for performance and that everything after that has been ordinary.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#13

Facilitator note: I am leaving this open through the holidays because it will be more relevant then than it is now.

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HarriSwansea, UK
#14

Gently disagreeing with Edwyn, or rather adding the other half of it.

Somebody in this circle said that grip strength is the most honest measure and I have tracked mine ever since.

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