


After a three week vacation with the family, I’m ready to get up early tomorrow and hit the road. Chest & Back starts today and I can’t wait to get back on the bike. When I don’t have any schedule, it is pretty easy to just blow off workouts or waste time trying to figure out what I need to accomplish with my training.įour weeks of strength training will do me some good while I build up some base cycling fitness. I’ll definitely make adjustments as I go on with life. (I’ll be riding in the hills, so this is the big day of the week to be sure.)

The date and the weather make it a bit too early to start formally training here at the end of July. The Tour de Scottsdale is a 70 mile race on a fairly hilly course that takes place in early October. Thank goodness for P90Xand Insanity. I rarely have enough time between races to do a full 90 days of P90X or one of the other programs, but when I can I like to get back to them. is really the only window when you can actually train outside without risking heat stroke and/or electrocution. Generally, summer in Phoenix is a very bad time to be outside, so outdoor training proves difficult this time of year. I’ve noticed that endurance training causes me to lose muscle mass, unless I eat a lot more food than I’m comfortable with and so I like to mix in strength training routines when I have time. I had a fun day and that’s the important part. I’m happy with that time, but honestly I was happy just to finish! I did not make my goal to finish the San Diego International Triathlon in less than two hours, probably because the Half Ironman really took it out of me and I decided to spend the last few weeks of my training period surfing on my stand up paddle board, rather than running. I was able to complete the SuperFrog Half Ironman in just over six hours. I’ve created a new modified P90X workout schedule that I wanted to pass along to anyone who might find it useful.

Dave’s New Modified P90X Workout Schedule
